Mark's Musings

I don’t really believe in guilty pleasures. But this is a song that I tend not to own up to liking, at least in polite company. However, it is a very good one. I’m not a huge fan of rap … Continue reading →

I don’t really hate any band. There are plenty of bands that I don’t listen to because I don’t particularly like their music, but that’s not the same thing as hating a band. What I do hate, though, is the … Continue reading →

If I’m tired enough, nearly any music can send me to sleep. There’s something about the rhythmicity (is that a word?) of it that can be very somnolistic. But, for a while, I used to have the habit of playing … Continue reading →

There’s dancing, and then there’s dancing. I’m perfectly capable of doing the white-guy-disco-shuffle to most danceworthy stuff, and in my younger days I was quite partial to the odd bit of pogo or headbanging as well. But there isn’t really … Continue reading →

There are probably quite a lot of these. Quite possibly, more than there ought to be. I’m half-tempted to pick something like the national anthem, or a classic hymn, rather than a pop tune, but I think that might be … Continue reading →

As with yesterday’s topic, there are plenty of songs that I can choose from for this one. I could, for example, pick any one of a number of sings I’ve heard at gigs, or that were playing at events I’ve … Continue reading →

Unlike yesterday, I’ve got so many options for this category that the difficulty is in choosing just one. But there’s one song which recently demonstrated to me just how vivid the “spirit of place” associated with a piece of music … Continue reading →

This one is unusually hard because, for some reason, I tend not to associate songs with people. I have plenty of songs that remind of of places, or events, or dates, or even seasons. But not people. And I can’t … Continue reading →

Firstly, an apology. It seems that those of you reading this via the Facebook “notes” import (and, for that matter, planet.uknot) won’t have seen the videos as the import system strips out embedded objects. If that’s you (and if you … Continue reading →