Behold I give unto you a playlist two millennia in the making…
In this latest bout of the literary playlist challenge, Perc and I employ our mad skills towards an inevitable act of hubris: the mixtaping of the Holy Bible. Here you shall find no hymns, nor celestial choirs, but rather the artful repurposing [...]
Now becoming an annual event, Madpercolator and I have been swapping playlists confined to literary themes. Last year we did Don Quixote, and this year Wuthering Heights. Below is my contribution. Anyone wanting to share their own playlists or songs of interest please feel free.
Listen as one continuous playlist here: [...]
I feel like I have just awoke from a coma, a fold in time, a 90’s coup d’etat, everything indeed in its right place. hyperbole flying everywhere, teenage music in my veins, and all I want is to have an orgasm and float away in rainbows.
boudoir music, all ‘talk show host’ sessions, beaming to [...]
A confession: I adore “Irreplacable”, the latest single from Beyonce. The phrasing is wonderful. Beyonce sings with a taut precision that perfectly captures the underlying tension beneath the lyrics: she says this guy is irreplacable, but her repeated, adamant lyrical insistence of this fact belies her claim. Certain phrases delivered in succession (“To [...]
Midnight Train to Georgia – Gladys Knight and the Pips
I usually take a dim view towards discussing music in the same vein that we talk about literature. When we use this literary vocabulary on music we inevitably turn songs into texts, and to my mind this puts too much emphasis on interpreting lyrics, [...]
Last night I experienced my very first Bob Dylan concert however I was not quite the bashful virgin; my modest efforts to research the man and his music in the months leading up to the concert gave me something of an advantage of what to expect, and more importantly, what not to expect. For [...]
Indulgent? Hell yeah, but Dylan is consuming my precious time lately and that fortunately or unfortunately carries over into my aesthetic worship at The Pagan Agenda. This post is a bit of a hodge-podge, a video and a song that are something of an addendum to my Judas playlist of last week.
For the last [...]
Why Judas? Well sort of by accident I begin and end the playlist with songs that bear reference to the biblical character, so that is one reason. The more interesting reason however is that in imitation of Dylan’s ethos I choose to compile a list of his songs unswayed by popular opinion with [...]
Near the end of ‘Chronicles’ Bob Dylan lets us in on a secret: the resurgence of his career in the nineties had something to do with numerology. There is a far longer discussion of the twofold epiphany Dylan underwent near the end of his tour with Tom Petty (‘87?) of which the numerology portion [...]
The main reason I think Bob Dylan is overrated is because when people listen to his music they are not experiencing the best of what music has to offer. Bob Dylan offers many things: he is a singular force in music history, an intensely creative poet, an enigmatic legend whose body of work is [...]
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