December 2010
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Sorry About That...
This actually happened yester-day, but, as in summer, during the winter break, my sleep schedule turns over so I go to sleep at like 3 in the morning and wake up at about noon. Anyway. I went with my family to KFC.  I’m not that hyped up about KFC, but, euh, I eat it.  (For me KFC is like orange juice.  I don’t really like it all that much, but I ingest it.) So, I was sitting there...
Dec 30th
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Black Moon - ELP →
So apparently, a lot of people don’t like ELP that much, since this is the third CD in less than six months that I’ve listened to, and all of these I got at Half Price Books stores.  This one came out in 1992; it is possible that I am older than this album. On the first track - the title track - “Black Moon” - the terrible, 1980s, synthesized-sounding drums make their...
Dec 26th
Bad Children Get Coal
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Dec 23rd
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Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful - The Lovin' Spoonful →
I’m tired, and I listened to this this morning, so I don’t remember it very well.  The only thing I have to say is that there are eleven tracks.  In order to make it more visually interesting, they spaced them into two columns of six on the back (they split one song title - “You and Me and Rain on the Roof” to two lines).  I mis-read it, and I thought they were two separate...
Dec 19th
Dec 13th
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Pictures at an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky
(I couldn’t find a link.) This was an interesting experience.  The only version of Pictures at an Exhibition I’d heard before this was the Emerson, Lake, and Palmer version.  So the journey from the progressive rock band version back to the original symphonic version was an interesting one. The main difference was the instrumentation.  The ELP version is dominated by an organ.  In...
Dec 11th
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!!Going Places!! - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass →
What stood out mostly on this for me what how they arranged their version of “Walk, Don’t Run.”  I recently learned how to play that song, so hearing a different version of it while still knowing my way around the song (how it was played and the tempo and what not), made me appreciate the song as a whole better, whether it’s this version of the original by the Ventures.  ...
Dec 5th
“You don’t like McDonald’s or KFC!? You’re undermining the...”
– My history professor, 1 December 2010
Dec 2nd