Charli XCX ‘Lock You Up’
The last track on her recent (last month?) album. I’m not crazy to think there’s something of the Stephin Merritt in the main chorus and verse here.
Charli XCX ‘Lock You Up’
The last track on her recent (last month?) album. I’m not crazy to think there’s something of the Stephin Merritt in the main chorus and verse here.
“The Longest Day” - Armin van Buuren Remix of 24 theme
Just cos a) AvB is in the charts WOO, and b) there’s gonna be another series of 24! With, um 12 episodes? http://www.avclub.com/articles/fox-cancels-touch-but-brings-back-24-restoring-bal,97658/
Laurie Johnson “Avengers Incidental Music Tag”
I found this ready made “GUESS MY THEORY” image on the tumblr.
(Source: c86)
Melody Club ‘Electric’
I loved this song at the time, and it just popped up on the iPod for the first time in years - I had to listen to it a few times. Lovely old-skool euro pop, even if the vocal sometimes sounds a bit Ian Broudy (via STHLM)
But this kind of thinking about canons pretends that the canon is a “thing” that sits out there in the world — which is still a question of “how and why” a canon exists.… But if that was all that canon meant — “the stuff that we think should be self-evidently important to everyone” — then canon would be a useless word.
Of course I don’t write about music. From the outside, I have to say it does look very very much like a useless word in the context of music writing - or at best badly appropriated. The (to me) inherent sense of canonicity has been dropped.
Having said that, I get ticked off enough at people who complain about ‘inappropriately appropriated’ (HA!) words like ‘trope’ - get used to meaning change pplz.
The original usage that kicked this off (ie wrt NPR [whatever that spells]) was about how the reaction to the blog was like the reaction to heresy (and laziness and etc), so I interpreted it as being a last (maybe unnecessary for music writers, but useful for the pub at large) kick at the zombie corpse of the THE in “the canon”.
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