May as well finish up with a running motif.
This will be the last daily post, I'm afraid. Nowhere left to go from here except, perhaps, the 1890s, and finding recordings from the 1900s was hard enough without looking for even older stuff.
I'll tell you what, though. Send me surviving recordings from between 1890 and 1899 that don't break the one-per-artist rule. If I can get all ten, I'll put together a short ten-part series featuring these recordings in the near future.
Until then,
I feel as strong as a bull moose, but there are only so many years in history, and so far I've covered every single one of them from 1900 onward. All that's left is the present day. I guess it's time to return home.
Have one final blast from the not-so-distant past, as Lady Gaga performs a little ditty off of her exceptional Cheek to Cheek album. Lush Life. Incidentally, the only song on the album not to feature Tony Bennett, who I had already featured in 1999.
Classified documents have come to light, implicating the American National Security Agency, or NSA, of conducting broad-sweeping surveillance on their own citizens. I guess this means we're not talking about Kim Jong Un's nuclear test anymore.
Fall Out Boy. My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'em Up).
"The latest in the 'Arab Spring' protests seems to have turned violent after thousands of anti-government fighters stormed the Libyan city of Benghazi. Gaddafi issues a televised statement promising..."
"...And where is President Obama in all this? I'll tell you where: sitting on his ass as thousands of people..."
"Are they any better than Gaddafi? These are radical Islamists we're talking about..."
"Loyalist war crimes continue to pile up..."
"...Obama is just like Bush. Read my
Doing the Millennial Epilogue, there was no way I was going to get out of talking about OneRepublic. A couple years ago, I was absolutely obsessed with this band. It and Imagine Dragons were the only things I listened to, and this was my favorite song in the world. OneRepublic always struck a chord with me simply for how eclectic they were.
It seemed like they took influences from everything, and still managed to combine it all naturally into a tight package. That's not to say they've never
Ah yes, Katy Perry. Remember when she used to serenade a watermelon? Actually, I'm pretty sure melons are all she's associated with, even today.
Hot 'n' Cold.
And just like that, North Korea is a nuclear state.
Ascanio Sobero, the man who invented nitroglycerin, was so dismayed by his own invention that he kept it secret for a full year before finally unveiling it. The uses of his invention haunted him to his deathbed.
Sarah Winchester, wife of the inventor of the "rifle that won the west," was reportedly haunted by the ghosts of all the men killed by her husband's rifle. She was driven insane to the point that she contracted a construction fi
I think I perplexed a few of you when I featured opera last year. Allow me to offer an explanation.
Today,The Black Eyed Peas shall demonstrate just how low we have sunk, and why I needed to look to opera just to find a decent song.
My Humps.
What sort of world do we live in? A world where terrorists can behead an American on camera, post it to the world wide web, and millions of people will watch it. What the fuck is wrong with us?
Thomas Ades, Overture to The Tempest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Uv_4jGgAM
Peacetime is always so short-lived. Arm some anti-soviet rebels in the 80s, they drag you into a quagmire in the new millennium. Funny how that works out.
Lose Yourself, by Eminem.
"Good mornin', Big Apple. We're looking at midday highs of about 86 degrees; overnight lows of 63 degrees here in Manhattan. Overall, expect the temperature to be juuuuust right as you make your way into work today on this crisp September morning. We're looking at clear skies today, but a slight chance of rain on Friday and Saturday. It's 8 A.M. on a Tuesday, and we'll be right back with your morning traffic report. But first, here's Brandy and Ray-J with their rendition of Phil Collins' Another
