Tag: Music

When you hear the phrase, “Mah Nà Mah Nà”, do you think about the Muppets? That’s what I thought when this song by Piero Umiliani came up on my Spotify Discover Weekly. I thought this was another cover of the…

When scrolling through Spotify, many remixes of songs aren’t all that great. I’m sorry, but in many cases I like the original more. Remixes often tend to be flat, lacking depth. But that’s because I’m listening to the remixes in…

“Pancake Robot” by Parry Gripp is such a fun song to memorize the lyrics. Anytime you have pancakes, you can bust out some lyrics from this song. Like this little verse: The pancake robot is coming to townHe’s mixing up…

This is so cool of Spotify to do! A family mix. Last year, we signed up for the family plan on Spotify. When we were all on my plan, the love of Disney soundtracks by my three-year-old daughter was screwing…

Every week Spotify makes a custom playlist of 30 songs just for you—based on what you listen to. It’s sort of like a close friend making a very personal playlist for you. In fact, it’s even more personal in a…

Amusing to see “The Unicorn Song” in my Spotify “Discover Weekly”. This cute song starts with a little child saying “Unicorns da dumm. Unicorns da dumm”. It sounds like she is saying something about unicorns, but I can’t make it…

I love listening to the WFMT concert every Wednesday. They broadcast it live from the Chicago Cultural Center. One of my favorite places in Chicago, it’s also now right across the street from where I work! I go to the…

The croquet twitter account @HammerTimeCroqu started following me today on Twitter. That is, they are following my croquet-dedicated Twitter account, @mightymauler. Yes, I have a Twitter account dedicated to croquet. Not just croquet, but my superhero alter-ego persona on the…

A great reason to use the free service last.fm is that it tracks your music listening habits across many platforms like Spotify, Pandora, and iTunes. With this database of records the site then gives you insightful analysis to your listening…

I can’t believe that PBS actually made this. It’s really good. I want to be Mister Rogers. Mister Rogers Remixed | Garden of Your Mind | PBS Digital Studios (hat-tip to Dubplate Dionysus). It‚Äôs good to be curious about many…

Spotify. Why use Spotify? “Millions of tracks, any time you like. Just search for it in Spotify, then play it. Just help yourself to whatever you want, whenever you want it.” Here’s my reasons why you need to sign up…

Somehow I ended up on Mat Kearney’s single, “Hey Mama.” I had to dig this particular photo of me out of my MySpace profile, so I’m not really sure why Mat Kearney’s people were trolling my MySpace profile for photos…

Do you know what would make for a great music-listening service? If they allowed you to embed playable clips on your own website. So if I blog about a song, people can play it right on my site. If someone…

In 2010, I listened to 10,450 songs. Here’s a playlist with the top ten artists. I picked one song for each artist. You can click the widget, and it’ll play 30-second clips of all 10 songs. (Note, if you cannot…

My most listened-to song of October 2010 is Lelia Broussard’s Satelitte (a robot love story). Available on Amazon.com and iTunes. Lelia Broussard is also my most played artist of October 2010.

My number one most listened-to song in March 2010 was Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Fire.” As I tweeted last month: “Franz Joseph Haydn’s ‘Fire’ could easily be named “Jack it up.” Apparently, I liked the song enough that it was the…

Try to listen to “2 Legit 2 Quit” by MC Hammer without doing the hand motions. Just try. You won’t be able to help yourself. (Spotify, Amazon, Youtube). This contest is only open to those born before 1982. The music video…