Archive for the 'Music' Category

Honeycut: Exodus Honey

Friday, July 18th, 2008

If you’re a Mac person who’s upgraded Mac OS X 10.5 (”Leopard”), you’ve encountered this snazzy opening video after you rebooted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx70OFoOuII

Turns out the equally snazzy grooves are by the bay area band, Honeycut, who Apple tapped for a cut down version of their song, Exodus Honey. Here it is in full:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwcCRdTZw0A

How does the brain
Connect with […]

Dead Can Dance: Severance

Friday, July 11th, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1AHIUdYeZ8

Severance:
The birds of leaving call to us,
Yet here we stand
Endowed with the fear of flight.
Overland
The winds of change consume the land,
While we remain
In the shadow of summers now past.
When all the leaves
Have fallen and turned to dust,
Will we remain
Entrenched within our ways.
Indifference:
The plague that moves throughout this land
Omen signs
In the shapes of things to come.
(Tomorrow’s […]

Dead can Dance: Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WTraRCQ8cg

Fortune presents gifts not according to the book
Fortune presents gifts not according to the book
When you expect whistles, it’s flutes
When you expect flutes, it’s whistles
What various paths are followed in distributing honors and possessions
She gives awards to some and penitents’ cloaks to others
When you expect whistles, it’s flutes
When you expect flutes, it’s whistles
Sometimes she robs […]

Carl Orff: O Fortuna

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuERh0jBjh8

O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.
Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.
Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

O Fortune,
like the moon
you are changeable,
ever waxing
and waning;
hateful life
first […]

Rush: Roll the Bones

Monday, July 7th, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXeUXLzD3o4

Well, you can stake that claim—
Good work is the key to good fortune
Winners take that praise
Losers seldom take that blame
If they don’t take that game
And sometimes the winner takes nothing
We draw our own designs
But fortune has to make that frame
We go out in the world and take our chances
Fate is just the weight of circumstances
That’s […]

Five from The Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Simon Jeffes (19 February 1949 - 11 December 1997) was the creative force behind the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, which created music that straddled the otherworldly and the hauntingly familiar. The first album of theirs I heard was actually their fourth: Broadcasting from Home. It remains of of my favorite albums.
Prelude and Yodel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km79e9GWvRU

Air á Danser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU8IziD08t4

Music for […]

Four by Hexstatic

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Hexstatic creates quirky and danceable electro music and video together as a unified work.
Salvador

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCUPri4JAP8

Timber (with Cold Cut)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLu7p9bTJ84

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Chase Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba8bQB2b2_s

The Bastard Fairies: We’re All Going to Hell

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

The Bastard Fairies have just released twelve tracks of their new album Memento Mori as a free download here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTOffYj5TxU

All you Mormons who like cussing, you are going to hell
All you preachers who like fucking, you are going to hell
Little boys that choke the chicken, you are going to hell
It’s the nature of evolution, the dinosaurs […]

Bruce Springsteen: Part Man, Part Monkey

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Part Man, Part Monkey by Bruce Springsteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMjUSrYfyak

They prosecuted some poor sucker in these United States
For teaching that man descended from the apes
They coulda settled that case without a fuss or fight
If they’d seen me chasin’ you, sugar, through the jungle last night
They’da called in that jury and a one two three said
Part man, part monkey, […]

Voltaire: God Thinks

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

God Thinks by Voltaire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFt8WQkEvb8

God thinks all blacks are obsolete farm equipment
God thinks the Jews killed his son and must be punished
God thinks the white man is Satan
God, they know what God thinks
God thinks we should all convert to Judaism
God thinks we must all be Christians and
God thinks we should all embrace Islam
God thinks the only […]