On song - Finding my lost voice
The last few times I’ve seen Phil, I’ve really enjoyed chatting to him about the joy of singing together with others. I’m glad he’s written it all down here. It reminds me of Brian Eno’s philosophy on group singing.
Link tags: songs
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From ABC’s to 9999999 – Eric’s Archived Thoughts
See, about a year or so ago, I took inspiration from Kevin Smokler to set about listening through my entire music library alphabetically by song title.
I think I’m going to do this! I have a paltry 10,602 songs so it should take a mere 29 days of continuous listening.
Patterns Day playlist on Spotify
If you were at Patterns Day and you liked the music that was playing during the breaks, here’s the playlist. All the artists are based in Brighton.
New Album: Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans | Palette-Swap Ninja
Absolute genius! I’ll never hear Sgt. Pepper’s quite the same way again.
Tom Waits Map | A map of places from Tom Waits songs
This geography lesson makes a nice companion piece to Johnny Cash has been everywhere, man.
Forgotify — Discover a previously unheard Spotify track
4 million songs on Spotify have never been played. Not even once. Let’s change that.
Pop Sonnets
Modern pop songs retold as Shakespearian sonnets.
Attack! | 100 robots
Electronic rock songs about anger, loss, frustration, love, the surveillance state, the Iranian election, uranium enrichment, Twitter, gene therapy cures for AIDS, the financial crisis and World of Warcraft.