3 posts tagged “music”
original from songs to wear pants to, extolling the virtues of the mass transit system in washington dc.
lyrics:
IF THE METRO DON'T GO THERE IT DON'T EXIST
My friends know it's my creed
I'm just a follow going along and
Metro is my lead
Living in Washington, DC with no car and
that's fine by me
No parking cares, no insurance, no gas,
just my cup of tea.
Get the Green line to work, the Red line to the
National Zoo
Yellow to the airport , Blue to King Street
and Orange to GMU
The Metro takes me to Rockville, Arlington, heck
even London, UK
[spoken part] You take the green line to Greenbelt, get on the B30 express to
BWI, catch a British Airways flight to Gatwick, from Gatwick walk to the exit
for the Tube, at the tube station take the train to Cockfosters, viola London.
OK?[/end spoken]
Don't care for the 'burbs with the Wal-Marts and
bland chain stores
I'll take the metro to funky shops in Dupont
Stand clear of the doors
I want to go when I want to go, leave when
I want to leave
Having to beg for a ride, hunt for a ride, that's
my pet peeve
I'm not going to bother with the places
I just can't go
Cause if it's good, if it's great, I can get there
by the Metro
Bong-Bong, doors closing.
REQUESTED BY: M Marie Maxwell
In 1964, Lorne Greene (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) had a #1 hit with "Ringo", a Western ballad. I had to listen to see just what this could be, and Napster came through with it. I'm sure that the few Upper Peninsula radio stations on the air back then played it.
In 1985, the tune of the day was Mr. Mister's Broken Wings. Detroit's WJLB was playing Stevie Wonder's Part Time Lover, and WHYT featured Klymaxx's "I Miss You". But what I remember of Detroit radio of that time was listening to Electrifyin' Mojo late at night and the early sounds of Detroit techno.
Valdis Krebs writes in his Network Weaving blog:
Several years ago I was invited to speak on "social cartography" at the ART + COMMUNICATION conference in Riga, Latvia. Included in that conference program were performances of ambient electronic music -- some very unique, using processed signals from old Soviet radar installations that still exist in some parts of the Baltics. I was talking to one of the electronic artists and he asked "I wonder what your networks sound like? You should try to put your networks to music/sound." My hobby is electronic music, and I have several music synthesizers that I play. So, I thought "Hmmm. I'll give it a try."
I'd love to hear what Vox sounds like if you mapped out the emerging networks of neighbors, friends, family, commenters, etc. & there are some music links here so you could actually start by playing snippets of people's favorite sounds? hmm.
