Posts in the category “music”
This category contains all posts about songs, bands, and music in general.
iTunes Tuesday: Listen to This
Depending upon the size of your iTunes library and how you have your playlists configured, you could have a bunch of awesome songs that you are either hearing over and over and over again, or that you’ve not heard in ages. Those are both terrible situations, of course. You want to have a happy medium.
iTunes Tuesday: The 90s
Here’s a quick and easy smart playlist for you. Let’s create a collection of only songs released in the 90s. This is a very simple playlist, and its utility is primarily as a component of other smart playlists. In iTunes click File → New → Smart Playlist …. Then choose the parameters set in this
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.
On Pearl Jam
There’s a very well-written review of the entire history of Pearl Jam on Grantland right now. In case you’re living under a rock, I’ll tell you that a new PJ album was released last week. (Yes, that’s why you’re hearing classic Pearl Jam tracks between every inning break during the World Series and why they
#FridayFive: Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
View the Friday Five from October 18th, 2013
MeFi Swap
Notes on a mix CD
Runaway
One of my favorite memories of my mom — of my entire childhood, actually — is singing Runaway by Del Shannon in the car with her and my little sister while driving to St. Paul’s Catholic elementary school. I love that song. She loved that song. She loved singing that song. Mom loved music. And
#FridayFive: Springsteen Albums
View the Friday Five from July 5th, 2013
Scott Farcas Takes It on the Chin
I should note two things here: (a) It wasn’t until I was in my late 30s that I first saw A Christmas Story, so I had no idea who Scott Farcas was for a long, long time and (2) It’s hard to imagine that the Less Than Jake song Scott Farcas Takes It on the