Original Song Title: "Time Passages" (MP3) Original Performer: Al StewartParody Song Title: "Swine Viruses"Parody Written by: Bob GomezThe Lyrics Public health disclaimer: It has not been proven that the H1N1 swine flu can be contracted by reading a parody about it. But you never know. So...
Plan on the Death and Dismemberment Tour last spring about when poetic license goes too far in pop song lyrics. One of the two songs that sparked the discussion was that one 80s song about not having to take your clothes off to have a good time and how they could go dancing and drink...
just as we find it in Monteverdi’s oeuvre, for instance in the psalms of his Vespers of 1610. It means that episodes for a full ensemble alternate with passages in declamatory style for one or several solo voices. These pieces are from the pen of Giovanni Rovetta and Giovanni Antonio ...
American Pie's lyrics have been analysed in all manner of quarters, but predictably, the best explanation of the song's meaning came from McLean himself. “It means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to,” he's said to have quipped. 26. Nick Drake - Pink Moon It’...
It is limited to detecting objects thicker than 3 centimeters, meaning that it has trouble with thin objects such as a closed laptop placed flat on a table. The accuracy of such smart camera systems may need to improve before they are widely adopted. “You’ve got to trust the technology ...
“Everybody’s Talkin’,” a cover of Fred Neil’s country folk ballad, bookends the film. In the beginning, the melodic jangle of the guitars captures the optimism and naïveté of a cowboy leaving the South for the big city. Yet the lyrics of escapism and new pastures—“I’m ...
During those car rides, The lyrics of “Let Me Be There” often floated through the radio airwaves from our local country music station, into our El Camino and into my young mind during so many of those car rides. “Wherever you go, wherever you may wander in your life, surely you ...
a protest album that garners its strength from the stark contrast between her supple voice and its confrontational lyrics (“I wanna see this world, I wanna see it boil,” she wails amid the crushing drums and blown-out synth brass on the apocalyptic “4 Degrees”). Her voice’s unblemish...
and beautiful effects that bring the prehistoric world to stunning life. But as braindead as “Conan the Barbarian” might seem from the outside looking in, watch it and you’ll find a surprisingly, stealthily philosophical film that looks at the meaning of power and bloodshed. All that, and...
Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each p Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. Af...