Cover vs Original: Enjoy the Silence.
Join me as Look at the classic song, “Enjoy the Silence. I juxtapose Depeche Mode’s original version to covers by Tori Amos, Lacuna Coil, Anberlin, and Nada Surf.
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Mack the Knife – The Many Lives of a Murder Ballad.
If you know the song, “Mack the Knife,” you probably know the Bobby Darin version more than any other version. You might even think that’s the only version, or that maybe Darin’s is the original version. If you believe this, you’re dead wrong. “Mack the Knife” is a standard that has been done by everyone
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Boo! A Very, Scary, Halloween Playlist.
Are you scared? You should be….it’s time for the first ever AudioPerfecta Halloween Playlist. Halloween – so many dear children, dressed in costumes, begging for treats. Oh so unaware of the horrors – that lurk just beyond the shadows. Ready to pounce upon the….ok, ok, I’m scaring even myself here! Again, here’s the Halloween Playlist.
Song Rating – 5 Intersecting Points in Time and Space.
A few weeks ago, in my post, “It’s ok to like bad music,” I explore a theory for song rating. I stated that rating a song can be done with a three axis cube, ie a three dimensional box. As I explored this theory a bit in my own mind, as well as looking at
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Instrumentals for Everyone.
I put so much emphasis on lyrics, that today I want to focus on instrumentals. Sometimes we need to forget about words – and just let our brains absorb the music – let the meaning of the music really hit our soul. Feel the rhythm, the guitars, dulcimers, drums, bass, keyboards, and whatever other instrument