Category: Music

There’s been a dearth of polkas. Here’s one Strauss wrote for Hungarians

The lyrics may be sentimental hippie mush, but I don’t care. Argent is the antidote for Tonio K, and vice versa.

Tonio K’s Life in the Foodchain belongs on any short list of classic rock albums that are actually worth listening to.

Fans of ELP will recognize the first movement.

The closest approach to a hit song that Holdsworth ever had. Of course I never heard this on the radio.

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, as I probably don’t need to mention.

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, in “Your Face,” Al.

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.