Category: Music
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Genre Classifications – Result of Innovation or Exercise In Waste?
Wikipedia lists 259 electronic music genres 212 rock music genres 67 hip hop music genres 29 blues music genres 26 pop music genres How did this happen? Did experimentation and innovation result in so many different musical styles? Is it due to the bands’ quest to package and market themselves as “different” from others? Are…
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How Musical Are You?
BBC Lab UK has come up with a fascinating test of people’s musicality. It involves a series of questions about people’s interest and skills in music and takes about half an hour to answer. The most interesting part of the test is four sets of questions that involve clips of music: Group the Music –…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Jan-14-2011
Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.
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Auto-tune For The Common Man
It all started with Cher’s hit song, Believe. Actually, it started before, but the producers of Believe overdid it (deliberately) and made people sit up and go “What the heck was that?”. I am talking about auto-tune, of course. The instrument that magically polishes off vocal blemishes and even adds embellishments that are not humanly…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Jan-07-2011
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Does Book Publishing Have A Better Future Than Music?
Paul Carr of TechCrunch thinks book publishing has a better future than music because there is no assumption amongst buyers that digital books will be free. He also implies that people don’t associate any value with music. He is wrong and his argument is ridiculous: People expect to pay for e-books – It is only…
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Amit Trivedi – Take A Bow
Amit Trivedi is the best thing that has happened to Indian film music in recent times. For music lovers, who have been disillusioned by the sameness that pervades Bollywood, he is not just a breath of fresh air, he is a gale of change. I love the fact that he keeps churning out solid rock…
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Official Song of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 – Another Bust
The official song of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (SEL), was released on Dec 31, 2010. In my opinion, it’s another miss, close on the heels of A.R. Rahman’s official song for the Commonwealth Games. It’s easy to explain why you love a song or why you hate one, but really hard…
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Quentin Tarantino songs
I watched Inglourious Basterds last night and, as with other Tarantino movies I have seen, loved the songs as much as the movie itself. There is a certain quality to Tarantino songs – off-beat, melodic, dark, retro – that sounds amazing in the movies but also make for great listening by themselves. My original plan…
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Freaky Friday Playlist Dec-31-2010