Archive for the ‘Musical Notes’ Category

Enjoy this astonishing video from innovative band OK Go – absolutely brilliant.

This is one of my most favourite pieces of music. It never fails to give me goosebumps.

So, Christmas is nearly here. The goose is getting fat, or at least it’s getting ready for pickup from the local farm shop.
There’s no escaping it: I get to play a lot of Christmas Carols.
It’s not that I dislike Christmas or anything but after 30-odd years of playing the same tunes out in the wet [...]

I love this song. The fact that it didn’t get to number one because of one of the biggest musical mistakes of all time makes me almost physically sick (not really).

It’s still a work of genius, in my honest opinion. One of the finest songs to emerge from the early 80s and still one of [...]

I normally detest everything about bagpipes. I think that they’re generally horrible to listen – like an argument amongst a clowder of cats.
However, I do have a thing for that classic Scots tune Highland Cathedral and I can just about put up with the screechy cacophony long enough to enjoy something like this:

I’ve played it [...]

I’m currently loving the new album by Porcupine Tree – The Incident. It’s such a good prog album, full of 70’s influences and 00’s rock chops.
Here’s a taster, the first single Time Flies:

The album version is much longer, incorporating some good old prog noodling and some Pink Floyd-esq bass sounds.
Cracking stuff

I’m glad that I’m not stuck with one genre of music taste. The eclectic mix of tunes on my iPhone chucks in tracks by Bjork and David Cloyd amongst rock monsters like Mastodon and Testament.
The fact that I play in a brass band also means that I’m exposed to music that, perhaps, people of my [...]

I’ve been listening to all sorts of random stuff on my iPhone and iTunes recently (I love to shuffle – fnarr!) and this track has been growing on me like a fungus: a hard rockin’ fungus.

I’ve not heard of Viking Skull before hearing this. I think the track was on one of those free CDs [...]