7 posts tagged “music”
One of the things that sometimes makes me sad about not having a tv - though it is definitly only a passing sad - is that occasionally I catch music videos that are so - smart, funny, good - just well done that I wish I saw them on tv and got caught by surprise by their goodness. This is one of them.
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On my birthday:
"Three Times a Lady" is a 1978 single from the funk/soul group the Commodores, from their album Natural High. It was produced by James Carmichael and the Commodores. Lionel Richie wrote the song after hearing his father give a speech at his thirty-seventh wedding anniversary. It became the Commodores's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, topping the chart for two weeks beginning on August 12, 1978. It was also the only Motown song to reach the Top 10 that year. The song has since became a wedding standard.
Well, I'm glad it was motown, and not "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" by Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond, which came later that year.
On my 21st:
"Genie in a Bottle" is the first single from Christina Aguilera's debut album, Christina Aguilera. As her first major single, the song is generally considered her debut single (although technically she had released two songs prior to this).
I don't even remember this song, which may be appropriate considering the birthday.
Last night I went to see the Kinsey Sicks movie - "I want to be a Republican" at the Frameline Movie Festival. The Kinsey Sicks is a group of four drag queens that sing acapella. It was great. Generally, I'm not a fan of the combination of music and political satire, and I'm absolutly allergic to acapella groups, it was very entertaining. Honestly, it sounded better than (my idea of) acapella and was much more entertaining than (my idea of) political satire.
Here's a sample:
uh... are we going for the pbs biography or the feel good thriller?
I'll choose some songs for the feel good thriller, because those songs are much more fun. There will be lots of bike tricks and basejumping. And I will have a very muscular stunt double. And a pet tiger.
Back in 1997 I was working in a music store. As a promotion for the movie Titanic we were giving away a free single with every purchase. The catch was that the single was Kenny G's extended instrumental version of "My Heart Will Go On" from the movie. No one wanted them, I don' tknow why.
I grabbed a handful of them to send to my friends as jokes. I think I still have one somewhere. I don't think i've ever opened it.
I can't actually find a sample of this anywhere on the internet, which partially restores my faith in public folksonomy and data curation.
