In 1818 the population of England was near twenty million, 80 percent of whom were functionally illiterate. The literate field, then, was approximately four hundred thousand. This was not only the maximum poetry audience, it […]
Tag: music
(Music) Los Saicos!
Los Saicos formed in Peru in 1964 and lasted for a little less than two years. Having no real musical training, they played a pure garage sound that borrowed heavily from surf rock. Some claim […]
(Music) The Inarticulable Majesty of Being
I find it difficult to answer the question “What is your favorite movie?” but not because I don’t have one. I don’t have a favorite color, or even one favorite food, but I do have […]
(Music) Cratediggers: Rare Pop Nihon
Kyu Sakamoto stands over popular music in Japan the way Frank Sinatra stands over popular music in the U.S. This song actually made it to the Western charts with the title “Sukiyaki,” which is a […]
(Music) The 35-Year-Long Explosion
I joined Google+ in late 2012, something of an internet virgin. Prior to that, I hadn’t been active on social media to any significant degree. I immediately began sharing music, because it’s important to me, […]
(Music) Mah-Na Mah-Na?
“Mah Nà Mah Nà” is a popular song by Italian composer Piero Umiliani. It originally appeared in the Italian film Sweden: Heaven and Hell (Svezia, inferno e paradiso, 1968), an exploitation documentary film about wild […]
(Music) The Jimi Entley Sound
After Portishead but before he became a big name film score composer, Geoff Barrow — not to be confused with comic artist Geoff Darrow — released samples, covers, and remixes of old songs under the […]
