Maura O’Connell–The Water Is Wide
William Heise | August 31, 2010
I LOVE this. If you love it, too, you can buy it here
Robert Fripp
William Heise | August 25, 2010
It’s no secret that the 1980s have gone out of style, but I miss them all the same. As I’ve said, I didn’t listen to much music in the 80s, so I have only fond memories of the decade. But my friends tell me that musicians relied on a series of electronic synthesized gadgets, rather [...]
Bendeniz
William Heise | August 14, 2010
Okay, I know this is extraordinarily late. I’ve been working on getting my website ready, and I had some serious problems. All fixed now (but what a nightmare!). So I changed my plans. I WILL get to the 80s next Monday. In the meantime, here is Bendeniz, one of my favorite Turkinsh singers, singing one [...]
Swamp Pop
William Heise | August 2, 2010
I’ve been really busy this week again. I’ll get back to the 80s next week. In the meantime, everybody dance to the music of the Swamp Pop era. Here’s Cookie and the Cupcakes’ Mathilda: Here’s Warren Storm’s Mama Mama Mama: And finally, Johnnie Allan’s South to Louisiana:
80s Music I Missed
William Heise | July 26, 2010
There are several reasons I prefer the 80s over the 70s. Perhaps the most important was that I missed the high point of the 80s electronic music. This was on account of my having lived through the 70s, with its sappy music. I was paying attention in the 70s. But by the 80s, I dropped [...]
Mission Impossible Gamelan Music from Indonesia
William Heise | July 21, 2010
Busy, busy, busy this week. No time to write much. I was researching what I intended to write about this week, but I ran out of time. In the course of my research, I found an article about gamelan music. I don’t know much about gamelan music, and I’m sure this is a bastardized version, [...]
My Brief Experience as a Leader, and My Fall
William Heise | July 12, 2010
So I’ve been meaning to get around to my defense of the 80s over the 70s as a great era of musical innovation, so here goes. I’ll start out with my experience in college. The 60s and 70s were great, and their influences endure (see my post on Higher, which reworks very old and respectable [...]
Bitter:Sweet
William Heise | July 5, 2010
I was planning of getting to my long-delayed plan of defending my taste in 80s music over the music of the 70s this week. But I need to get my last piece of my Art and Poetry series, Interior Scroll. I’m almost done with that, so I’ll start on that project next week. In the [...]
Deep Forest: Sweet Lullaby
William Heise | June 28, 2010
In commemoration of events that took place on this date, June 28 1969: I also love the song.
Apemen
William Heise | June 21, 2010
This week, I wanted to give you an example of what I consider the ‘natural’ perspective on life in music. So I thought I’d been you a bunch of songs about how rock n roll led us to rediscover our ape-like qualities. The first is the Kinks’ Apeman: This is the result of the Baby [...]
