Category Archives: Music

L. A. Losers

Posted on 20 October 2018 by Larry Russwurm

There are three big centres for music in the English speaking world. They are London, New York and Los Angeles. London bands sound like the clear winners of all the bands of the world. ‘Let’s see, should I stay in … Continue reading →

Posted in Geography, Humour, Music | Tagged drought, dryness leads to more sunny days, finger exercise, Guns and Roses, London, London is rainy and foggy, Los Angeles, Los Angeles weather is largely phenomenal, losers, mudslides, New York, New York has cold winters, New York is sometimes said to be the centre of the world, No Doubt, proximity to the ocean leads to moderations of the tempereature, surfing culture, Sweet Child O' Mine, the Beach Boys, touring, vegetation fires | Leave a comment

What Do You Call Someone Who Hangs Around Musicians?

Posted on 13 October 2018 by Larry Russwurm

The real answer is Mike. The eighties answer to this – (the one that everyone knew) was a drummer. Everybody knew that drummers were on the way out in the eighties. Drum machines were the oft pointed at pieces of … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Wee Bit O' Humour | Tagged Bass, bowed string instruments need a section for chords, chord enabled instrument, Coldplay, DJ equipment, drum machines, drummers, drummers were on their way out, drums, drums now thrive, eighties, guitar synthesizers, guitarists, guitars, guitars on the outs, Imagine Dragons, keyboards, programming, randomness in beats to sound like a live drummer, super accurate beats, Twenty One Pilots, ukelele, White Stripes, wind instruments need a section for chords | Leave a comment

The Bird is the Word

Posted on 15 September 2018 by Larry Russwurm

“Flipping the bird” means to give someone the finger. Of course the “flipping” part means to put your hand into the proper position and the “bird” means either F—, or F— Y– or F— O–. For the purpose of this … Continue reading →

Posted in Fashion, Humour, Music, Stage and Screen | Tagged Big Bird, bird, bird means f---, censors, ear worm, Family Guy, Family Guy is racist, flipping is positioning, flipping the bird, Jim Henson, muppets, radio, Sesame Street, surfin' bird, swear words, television, The Trashmen, word | Leave a comment

Pop Music Naming Schemes

Posted on 21 April 2018 by Larry Russwurm

Cardi B has 13 songs in the top 100 on Billboard so let’s look at her name and where she got it from. Apparently her nickname in the hood was Bacardi but she couldn’t use this for trademark reasons. So … Continue reading →

Posted in Language, Music, Stage and Screen | Tagged actors, Alan Ladd, Bacardi, Canadian Club, Cardi B, flipping the bird, gut flora, innards, J Law, J Lo, Jack Daniels, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lopez, knighting, naming schemes, pressure wash, Prince Igor, rinse, Robert Redford, singers, Sir Peter Ustinov | Leave a comment

The Moon is Not an All Night Nightlight

Posted on 25 November 2017 by Larry Russwurm

Poets, songwriters and prose makers beware that if you don’t observe carefully enough, you might be taken to task for sloppy writing. In this case I’d like to call out songwriter Jason Mraz for his song “Shine”. There was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Language, Music, Science, Wry | Tagged crescent shaped moon, daylight sky, farmers, first quarter, full moon, Harvest Moon, harvesting, Jason Mraz, Moon, new moon, nightlight, poets, prose writers, Shine, songwriters, stars are far away suns, Sun, the stars, the zodiac, third quarter, Yes | Leave a comment

Little Geney

Posted on 14 October 2017 by Larry Russwurm

This website has talked about Barry Manilow’s Mandy and how obvious a trick the now out-of-the-closet Manilow was making with the apparent heterosexual love song. We also speculated that perhaps someone in Boston is gay with their song Amanda (a … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Language, Music, Social Science, Stage and Screen | Tagged Amanda, attempt to trademark the Texas Longhorns hand gesture, Barry Manilow, Boston, drag queens, Elton John, Gary Osborne, gaudy clothes, gay, Gene Hackman, Gene Simmons, Gene Siskel, heterosexual, in the closet, Kiki Dee, Kiss, Little Jeannie, love song, makeup, Mandy, out of the closet | Leave a comment

Giv’ ‘er Should Be the Title of the New Imagine Dragons Album

Posted on 30 September 2017 by Larry Russwurm

I’m just going to list the titles off the album “Evolve” and put them in a particular order with little but some explanation: Believer Thunder Mouth of the River Start Over Whatever it Takes Yesterday Walking the Wire (contains e … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Language, Music | Tagged "er" fun, Believer and Thunder are the two singles, Evolve, Giv' 'er, giver, Imagine Dragons, Mouth of the River should be the third single, title mining | Leave a comment

Title Mining is Strong in Imagine Dragons

Posted on 13 August 2017 by Larry Russwurm

For their first album I wrote a post to show how every Imagine Dragons song on their first album had a title that had been used earlier. As a control, I compared it with a Kate Bush CD which also … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Music, Writing | Tagged American Authors, Are Imagine Dragons title mining, Artists gave up on unique song titles many years ago, Believer, Bruce Springsteen, Dancing in the Dark, Evolve, gold, I Bet My Life, Imagine Dragon fans must love title mining, Imagine Dragons, jinx, Kate Bush, lost the pro title mining crowd, most album names are unique, Mouth of the River, Night Visions, Parachute Club, Rise Up, Sampson!, Shots, Smoke + Mirrors, sophomore, the Beatles, Thunder, title mining, Walking the Wire, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Be Careful Little Mars

Posted on 1 July 2017 by Larry Russwurm

Fragile is a classic album by the band Yes and illustrated by Roger Dean. The front of this cover has an idyllic looking miniature world with a “wooden” spaceship with jagged edges and curved wings flying above and is pictured … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Music, Politics, Science Fiction | Tagged bomb, China, classic albums, Earth, Fragile, Mars, MAVEN, moorglade mover, NASA, rover, Russia, space probe, spaceship with jagged edges and curved wings, Star Trek : TNG, third eye death stare, USA, Viking, Viking landed in 1976, what if NASA sent an unsterilized probe to Mars, Yes | Leave a comment

Men Without Audible Voices

Posted on 25 March 2017 by Larry Russwurm

In the eighties, I went to Montreal and my brother and sister took me to a bar that Ivan Doroschuk was known to frequent. I had heard of him because I liked the pop band Men Without Hats that he … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Music | Tagged Barry White, Benoit David, blue whales, dwarves, highest male voice in rock, inaudible to the human ear, Ivan Doroschuk, Ivan is an outlier, Jon Anderson, Jon Davison, low voices, Men Without Hats, Montreal, primordial dwarves, puberty, Safety Dance, the eighties, whale whisperer, wonder about 6'6" progeny of Ivan's, Yes | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Music

L. A. Losers

What Do You Call Someone Who Hangs Around Musicians?

The Bird is the Word

Pop Music Naming Schemes

The Moon is Not an All Night Nightlight

Giv’ ‘er Should Be the Title of the New Imagine Dragons Album

Title Mining is Strong in Imagine Dragons

Be Careful Little Mars

Men Without Audible Voices

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