Linky Love - Georgia O’Queef meet Slutvomit: The year in band names 2013

Each year, The A.V. Club encounters thousands of bands, 97 percent of which we won’t remember. What makes a band memorable? A good sound? Sure, that helps. A persistent publicist? Also helpful (or harmful, depending on the number of messages we get). A bizarre name? Definitely. In the many years that we’ve been doing our annual “year in band names” story, we can still rattle off some of our favorites. Who could forget Here Comes Old Vodka Tits? Or Happy Mothers Day, I Can’t Read? Gay Witch Abortion also belongs in the hall of fame. No matter how good the music is, these bands make the world a more interesting place.

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Linky love - Awkward band photos

Oh how I love these awkward band photos! 

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Linky Love - Weird Inspirations for Beloved Popular Songs

 

 

I enjoyed this Listverse article and thought I would share it with you.  It's always interesting to hear the stories behind songs. 

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Linky Love - Five Places to go Record Digging

Here is a fabulous article about where to shop for records.  There are hold outs ....


http://mylifescoop.com/2013/11/15/top-places-to-go-record-digging-in-america/

If you are in the DFW check out Doc's Records and Vintage located on Camp Bowie.  Half Price Books is also a great place to look.  If I could find a fabulous mid century working record player,  I might join the vinyl collectors.  Maybe this should be added to my wish list. 

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From the New Yorker - "How Music Makes Us Feel Better"

 

 Music has now been used therapeutically for a number of diseases, including dementia, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and cerebral ischemia. In a study of chronic pain sufferers, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic found that listening to music helped patients experience less physical pain, as well as lower rates of depression; in a study of older people with dementia, scientists from the National Taipei College of Nursing found that playing background music during lunch significantly lowered both verbal and physical aggression. In 2006, researchers discovered that even something as complex as open-heart surgery could be improved with a musical intervention: patients who listened to music during and after heart surgery not only felt less anxious but required, on average, two hundred fewer minutes of intubation than those who had undergone standard procedure.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/how-music-makes-us-feel-better.html