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[tree_and_leaf]

From the department of weird medical trivia which can be vaguely linked to fandom: the migraine remedy that turns you Vulcan. Well, sort of.

An evangelical campaign I can get right behind: Campus Crusade for.... Cheese.

A meme, gacked from junediamanti. As usual, I shan't bother with tags: do it if it interests you.

Seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to:



Henry Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord Always. This is just gorgeous - not as majestic as some of Purcell's more famous anthems, but with a sort of sober merriment. The choir did it on Thursday night: a good note to end the year on.

David Bowie: Life on Mars. I've never listened to much Bowie, but I have had the chorus of Life on Mars stuck in my head on and off for about three months. I blame the BBC.

Runrig: Healer in Your Heart. I'm going through a Runrig phase again at the moment. Donnie Munro's voice! Runrig are an interesting band, lyrically: a lot of their songs have a clear spiritual dimension - probably even a Christian one - but it's very subtle and organic, and doesn't prevent them also doing songs about love or Scottish history or politics (especially the angry anti-Thatcherism ones). Indeed, it all flows together quite coherently.

Capercaillie: Crimes of Passion. Again, Karen Matheson has an absolutely gorgeous voice. Unlike Runrig, Capercaillie have moved from folk into folk-electronica rather than folk-rock. To be honest, I prefer their older stuff, but it's an interesting experiment, anyway.

Franz Ferdinand: Walk Away.

Paul Simon: How Can you Live In The North-East? I woke up with this stuck in my head this morning, for no apparent reason. Anyway, I liked the (no longer exactly) new album.

Andy M Stewart: The Errant Apprentice. A really, really silly song, with outrageous rhymes ('When I was a young apprentice/ and less than compos mentis/ I took leave of all my senses/ with a maid I fell in love...')

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Of Capercaillie, I have The Blood is Strong, and like that very much; I've also listened to a more recent album of theirs, and been disappointed, though it wasn't particularly electronic. I like examples of both folk-electronica and folk-rock, though I tend to listen to it on MySpace sites, and there hasn't been a new or newish group (self-conscious retroism there) where I've been moved to go out (or put card details to keyboard, more likely) and buy the music - though I've come close.

I could answer Paul Simon's question, but I suspect he's singing of a different north-east.

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Come to think of it, electronic is probably the wrong word. I'm hopeless with modern musical genre labels.

I suspect he's singing of a different north-east.

I think so. Although he did tour in the north of England as a young man, so you never know...

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I have no idea about labels either. I've watched many emerge, queried them as insubstantial or ill-founded, and then seen them gather meaning, as if to prove that a rolling stone can gather moss.