OK. So Eric Raymond posted on a document on rogue waves on youtube, then followed up with a posting at his blog [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7506] referencing that documentary and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. First, the BBC special. Being reporters I think they got some of the math terms wrong, but… there’s enough here to make you go hmmm…. Rogue waves are considered one of the possible reasons for the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald [https://infogalactic.com/info/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald#Rogu…
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OK. Is nothing sacred? Kidding – I’m not an Aguilera fan, and while I’m not a huge fan of death-metal vocals, it works here.…
Vox recently posted that “rap” inherently leads to a dead end. > Seriously, is there a bigger pop music abomination than the massive steaming dump that Jay-Z inexplicably slathers all over Alphaville’s “Forever Young”? But when I got to thinking about it, I realized that this musical dead end was inevitable. It was always going to be the case. Most of the early “rap is crap” critics were committing a category error when they complained about “rap music”. Their instincts were right, but their s…
Covers can be awesome, most are crap. This one I’m torn on. Her voice and style are perfectly suited to the song in a completely different, yet still haunting way, but I really miss the instrumentals, especially the pianos, of the original. Most of the covers were crap, actually, but there are a couple other competent covers, though none I stumbled across had the impact that either the original vocals did, or hers.…
Sisters of Mercy is a band I fell in love with as soon as I head the short version of this song at a club. Bought the album, and learned that the album cut was even more epic and awesome at 10 minutes. I sometimes joke that every Sisters of Mercy album or Song is but a piece of the same damn song. That said, there really is some variety there, some incredible atmospherics, and some truly haunting work in their music. My eventual favorite on Floodland was “Lucretia”, and my next favorite became…