OK – never heard of the band Eternal Champion, or the album The Armor of Ire, before Sky Hernstrom posted it to Google+. Catchy little number. Thank you.…
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Since I’m in a musical mood today, the Didact recently reminded me of a favorite song [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2017/01/seems-fitting.html] that I can chalk up to my “Damn You John Ringo” files. While there are bits and pieces of Nightwish that sound vaguely like Celtic music turned rock, this acoustic Heather Alexander bit with bagpipes is one of the most epically bloody minded METAL songs you will ever hear, despite being a folk/filk piece, promising to the enemy nothing less than “ho…
Some covers work. Some don’t. It’s worse when changing genres and styles of instruments, as the arrangement needs to be redone with an ear to what made the original work in it’s genre, the soul of the song itself, and how that works in the genre being moved to. Some do it better than others. Some songs just don’t work across genres, or need some major revisions to “work” in the new genre. One group that to my ear has more hits than misses in this translation is Postmodern Jukebox in selection o…
Bear with me, as this involves a partially remembered conversation of someone paraphrasing. It’s been said, here and elsewhere, that SJW’s and liberals are children. Like narcissists and other cluster-B’s they act as if they are emotionally stunted, never progressing beyond the teenage years, if that, in the ability to deal with conflict and setbacks. A few days back I observed a conversation where one side pointed out the bit at the women’s march, just after the inauguration, where Madonna sp…