Category: Tune of the day

A childhood favorite, a long, long time ago.

Self-reflection from Randy Newman.

Háry János was the Martian Hungarian counterpart of Baron Munchausen. The playlist contains the entire suite Kodály extracted from his opera.

How many time signatures can you juggle simultaneously? Some aficionados claim that the first King Crimson album was the best, or Lark’s Tongue in Aspic, but Discipline is the one I listen to most.

The machine translation of the title is “If You Want Freedom.”

A Richard Fariña tune that was part of Fairport Convention’s early repertoire. Richard Thompson is one of the guitarists.

Gentle Giant one more time.

A pleasantly apocalyptic tune from Scriabin.

Exploring the ramifications of reincarnation.

Before there was punk, there were The Good Rats.

I originally planned to post Alfred M. Yankovic’s “Don’t Download This Song,” featuring animation by Bill Plympton. However, Weirdo won’t let me embed it here, so here is Plympton’s “Your Face” instead.

Mozart’s take on yesterday’s theme, “Ah, vous dirai-je maman,” which you may know by another name. Romanian pianist Clara Haskil studied with Dohnányi and Alfred Cortot and was a friend of Charlie Chaplin.

For more twinkling, see here and here.

Written by Dohnányi “for the enjoyment of lovers of humor, and the annoyance of others.”

Some more high culture from the Lindley Armstrong Jones Chamber Opera Company.

In Ghent there is a public Japanese piano for the convenience of passers-by who play Japanese game music.

Martin Mull channels Warren Harding after his own fashion.

A forgotten surf classic.

I haven’t posted enough Chopin. Here’s my favorite ballade, played by my preferred Chopin pianist.

One of my theme songs.

A paranoid classic. Although Clear Light didn’t last long, some of the members subsequently had notable careers. Drummer Dallas Taylor played with Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young; vocalist Cliff de Young acted in a number of movie and TV shows I never watched; bassist Doug Lubahn played on three Doors albums and later co-founded Dreams.