My favorite Russian songs
Context I’ve been sharing some of these off-and-on with people, I thought I’d spend half an hour and sit down and make the list. “Don’t tell my mom I’m in Chechnya” The most hummable of all these,…
Music
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
One of my favorite songs of Simon and Garfunkel was Scarborough Fair/Canticle I recently came across a song that clearly is the original It was interesting to listen to it, and contrast the lyrics,…
Songs of war, songs of life
Sometimes there’s a “just right” aesthetic about a piece of art. If you get it, you get it. It’s a gut level infantryman song. Obviously dated because it’s about events from over two decades ago.…
Winds of Change
I usually listen to audiobooks when I'm driving alone -- all the time -- but today, I happened to be listening to a shuffled playlist, and "Winds of Change" came on. If you're too y…
Logical, Wonderful, Magical
Follow up to my previous post — I finally found the song I was looking for! I had to repeatedly search for a few words of lyrics, and then “just eyeball” song results until I found fragments that I r…
Poes
I passed by this poster in the lobby of a hotel, then came back for a closer look because I’d seen that name somewhere. I had to stand and stare before I realized that I’d stumbled across them while…
Tolkien songs
I liked the version of “Far over the misty mountains cold” from the first Hobbit movie. The poem with words is from the novel, and there is one version from the older 1977 movie — but there is a “bet…
"The ring without words"
Self-descriptive: A rendition of Wagner's "The Ring" opera, without the words Listened to this twice, in parts, and it's spellbinding The above is a YouTube link, but your streamin…
Rediscovering Disco
After dipping into movie soundtracks several years ago, I haven't actually returned to any other consistent "genre" (I know soundtracks aren't a genre, I lack a better word, and musi…
Old soundtracks and new ones
I just discovered the music of Eduard Artemyev, and … it's something I like now. I came across the soundtrack for Stalker, then realized the same person had composed the soundtracks for other Tar…
Youtube and Spotify
Youtube is always goiong to be superior to Spotify just because ... it has more stuff. The downside is that it's hard to know wtf is real any more, when searching for something. The upside is th…