Category Archives: Music

Breaking the Habit…

May 3, 2008 – 7:06 am

I’ve been impressed with the imagery that rap/metal group Linkin Park wheel out for their music videos, and making a choice for a YouTube selection is very difficult. I finally settled on the anime-inspired Breaking the Habit, which was created by the artists who did the animated sequences in the first Kill Bill. Yes, it’s [...]

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It’s just wrong

August 26, 2007 – 1:03 am

A tall, broad-shouldered man strides onto the stage. He physically dominates the chamber orchestra behind him, partly through size, and partly through charisma. Some way over six feet, with dark hair and glasses, he clears his throat - a deep, baritone growl - and then begins to sing.
Like a girl.
The experts say that listening to [...]

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L’Orfeo

August 12, 2007 – 11:01 pm

It’s fair to say that musically, I’m a philistine. Well known around these parts for a devotion to heavy metal and the bearer of more than one old injury from pogoing around sundry mosh pits, I’m sure that my occasional YouTube ventures contrast in an earsplitting way with Jason’s far more cultured selections.
Nowhere is this [...]

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Weekend YouTube

June 2, 2007 – 6:33 pm

Alt-metal outfit Linkin Park have just released a new album, Minutes to Midnight, which is currently making merry Hell on the charts, particularly in the US and the UK. Rather than feature some of their new stuff, I thought I’d head back to 2002. This track - ‘Points of Authority’ - comes from their [...]

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Eurovision

May 14, 2007 – 12:05 am

We have just finished watching the craziness that is Eurovision. My friends “The Wordies” and I have been devotees of Eurovision for many years now. We love the kitsch factor. Our special favourites are: costume changes mid-act, strange dance routines, glittering costumes, terrible 80s outfits, odd costumes (like the “monsters” who won last year) [...]

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They’re playing our song, dear!

February 17, 2007 – 11:21 pm

I found this fascinating blog post on the topic of whether the music one listens to can predict one’s personality. It’s of particular interest to me. My husband and I met partially because it was suggested by a mutual friend that we had similar (and very broad) musical taste (although I don’t find heavy metal [...]

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Brett Lee’s alternative career

January 9, 2007 – 7:00 pm

We need to lighten up around here a bit, so I’m inviting Catallaxians to check out Brett Lee’s latest Bollywood film clip - a rather fetching (!) duet with a bhangra backing. Very entertaining all round. Can he sing? Should he give opening the attack away? Or it it truly worrying?
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Weekend YouTube

January 7, 2007 – 12:36 pm

Since Jason isn’t feeling particularly inspired just now, I decided to track down a YouTube vid for our readers’ entertainment. Of course, being me I can’t supply you with the usual jazz and blues. However, I did take on board what people were saying about classical music during the last musical taste debate we had [...]

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Season’s Greetings, y’all!

December 23, 2006 – 12:35 pm

Having done the intellectual take on Christmas, I thought I’d better drop the pretentious Latin stuff a bit and entertain youse all. And what better way to do that than to introduce everyone to Jeff Foxworthy, a southern comedian whose affectionate pisstakes of redneck culture generally resonate pretty well for Australia’s bogan population. Much of [...]

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Voluntary Euthanasia: a musical plea

December 7, 2006 – 10:44 pm

For the uninitiated, stumbling across Metallica’s One can seem like encountering a passionate anti-war statement. For metal aficionados, however, the song - probably Metallica’s finest - doesn’t work that way. This is a song about euthanasia, and manages to make all the points Million Dollar Baby did over two hours in six minutes of intense [...]

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