Come over to the dark side. We have music.
A playlist “to keep a drowsy Emperor awake” (Yeats)
- 1: “Midnight Man” by The James Gang
- 2: “Starless” by the Unthanks
- 3: “Ach heile mich” by Cassiber
- 4: “Opening Theme” by Morte Macabre
- 5: “Gotta Go” by Bud Shank
- 6: “Night Life” by Ray Price
- 6a: “Repent Walpurgis” by Procol Harum
- 7: “Where Am I Going?” by Manfred Mann Chapter Three
- 8: “Galadriel” by Barclay James Harvest
- 9: “It’s a Blue World” by Beverley Kenney
- 10: “A Little Prayer” by Evelyn Glennie and Fred Frith
- 11: “Sleepy Time” by Raymond Scott
- 12: “The Surrealist Waltz” by Pearls Before Swine
- 13…
When our beloved musicians die, we feel bereft because we know we’ll never hear anything new from them. An archivist may discover some buried treasure, but that’s not the same…
Four Songs Performed with Tongue in Cheek
“Don’t take life so serious, son…it ain’t no how permanent.
— Porky Pine, in the comic strip “Pogo,” 1950
Recently, Noah Levy described how the ultra angsty group Muse pulled a practical joke on an unsuspecting Italian TV show, which led me to wonder “If Muse can have a laugh at themselves, maybe we all should.” A few songs popped into mind to show how (as the Firesign Theatre observed), we’re all Bozos on this bus.
In laughing at ourselves, we discover who we really are.
John Prine, “Dear Abby”
“Stop wishing for bad luck and…
Steven Hale
Music: Discovering the lost and forgotten. Politics: Exposing injustice. Screenwriting: Emotional storytelling.
