Swans on Tea

In the 80s music videos link from the other day I noticed the unsurprising absence of BLOTTO, a favorite Albany (NY)-based band from my high school/ college days (along with Fear of Strangers, aka The Units). So I went and looked for them on YouTube.
I must protest what I found.
This has to [...]

80’s Music Videos
From the good old days when MTV played music videos, men were women and women were men.
Only one per artist, though, so if you want Ant Music, or even Goody Two Shoes, you’re out of luck; you get Kings of the Wild Frontier.

Star Trek barbershop quartet. Words I had never seen in the same sentence, until now.
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Physics, guitars and pitch harmonics at Skulls in the Stars

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via Cap’n Refsmmat’s Blog of Doom
Yes, I’ve been up to no good again. Together with my band, now named The Quirk Side of the Moon, I’ve created yet another parody song, this time of John Lennon’s Imagine.
Imagine you were in a world with [...]

Someone with a little time on their hands, feeds some AC/DC into their laser (OK, technically the waveform of the music), and watches the trapped atoms “dance”
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The low-pass filtering means it responds more to the bass and drums.

Top Nine Songs About Self Love
Jackson Browne’s Rosie isn’t on the list? WTF? Pictures of Lily by The Who? Longview by Green Day? Sheesh.
via Kottke

Several weeks back, I was lamenting bad advertising music. There seem to be lots of companies who have the ad-music decisions being made by a 45-55 year-old who chooses a favorite tune from their youth but didn’t have great taste in music, (or a 20-something staffer who can Google on what was high on [...]

Rockin’ with the Muppets on Sesame Street
Feist, counting to four
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R.E.M. singing “Furry Happy Monsters”
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via Madam Lamb

Musical Relativity at the ArXiv blog
From the paper:
It is known that certain triads sound “happy”, while others sound “sad”.
Why this is so has been a question on minds of many musicologists, composers, musicians and
music lovers for a very long time and theories have been put forward. References to some works in
this area can be found [...]

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via The Quantum Pontiff

Name that tune in three elements
Best song of the 80s? Gold by Spandau Ballet. But it seems that the frilly-collared Spandau boys were far from original in their lyrical choice. According to a survey undertaken by Santiago Alvarez, in the department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, the most popular elements referred to [...]