What are you listening to in 2024?
Category: music
Themes For My Song Class
In my upcoming rock/pop discussion class, participants will be selecting, listening and discussing songs based on themes. I have some of the themes already, and I thought hearing song suggestions, or even theme suggestions, from others would be fun.
Here’s one theme I had in mind that I wanted feedback on:
Continue reading “Themes For My Song Class”Pop Hits from Celebrities
How many can you name? (Exclude songs from musicals or Disney animated films.) Here are some off the top of my head:
Continue reading “Pop Hits from Celebrities”Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 All-Time Great Songs (2021)
I’m currently moderating a group that will be listening to and discussing songs from the Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 all-time greatest songs (2021 edition), with participants choosing one song per week from the list. I’m going to use this thread to comment on the songs.
Music 2023
What are you listening to in 2023?
An Alternate Approach to Best of the Year Lists
As I see the best of the year lists popping up, I once again think about another approach I wish critics would employ–namely, instead of identifying the best works relative to other works within a given year, identify the works in a given year that compare favorably with the all-time great works. One drawback here is that none of the works may meet this criterion. For me, I don’t see this as a drawback. Here’s the reason why (and this will explain my overall mindset with regard to this topic).
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How Was Barnes and Noble Able to Turn Things Around?
Barnes and Noble is doing so well financially that they plan to open thirty new stores in 2023. That caught my attention, and I think it’s great news. Why is the store thriving? That’s the question music critic, Ted Gioia, tries to answer in this post. I agree with some of the reasons he cites (e.g., appointing a better CEO who decentralized decision making), but I’m dissatisfied with the overarching reason he offers–namely, that the new CEO loves books.
In this thread, I’ll explain the reason I feel this way, as well as offer an alternate explanation that seems more compelling. (In spite of this slight disagreement, I recommend reading his post.) OK, let’s begin.
Continue reading “How Was Barnes and Noble Able to Turn Things Around?”Favorite Song in Intermediate School
I was recently asked this question, and I had a hard time answering it. In reality, I don’t think there’s an answer–that is, I didn’t have <i>one</i> favorite song. Indeed, I don’t have one all-time favorite song. It seems like an impossible question to answer.
And yet, I wanted to try and answer this, so the best song I could come up, within a relatively short time, was Toto’s “Africa.” Really, I think I could probably think of a better song to mention, but I was pressed for time.
But I’m not pressed for time now, so I want to see if I can find a better pick–i.e., a pick that comes closer to my favorite song–or, one of my very favorites–during the intermediate years.
What’s you favorite song during intermediate school years?
Need Medium Tempo Music for Elderly Exercise Class
I don’t some exercise classes for elderly participants, and I need to find medium-tempo-ed music with a catchy/lively groove. I’ve been looking but finding music like this is really difficult. I’ll try to give some examples later.
The Kalapana Thread
I’ve been listening to Kalapana’s first album, and while I looking at their discography on Apple Music, I noticed a lot of albums I never really listened to. I don’t think I realized they had so many especially in the late 70s and early 80s. In this thread, I plan to go through their discography, although I don’t know if I’ll make it all the way through.