Category Archives: Music

Today’s Favorite Song — Beck, Turn Away

Posted on Friday 7 March 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdS-aBtHGLY

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Cosmos and Beyond

Posted on Monday 3 March 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Looking forward to the new Cosmos TV series, with Neil deGrasse Tyson. The original series, with Carl Sagan, was not so much an influential event in my life as a realization and visualization and confirmation of what I’d learned to … Continue reading →

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Today’s other Favorite Song – Down in the Hole

Posted on Saturday 8 February 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Of the new songs on Springsteen’s new High Hopes album, this one is especially affecting.

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Today’s Favorite Song — Ghost of Tom Joad

Posted on Saturday 8 February 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

This incredible new version of Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad”, on his new album High Hopes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsU015JWNJs

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Bruckner 8

Posted on Sunday 2 February 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

[Reposted from Facebook, 29 Jan 14] Tonight’s music, the Bruckner 8, the grandest and most thrilling and most moving of the Bruckner symphonies. I have several recordings, and I didn’t realize when I put it on that I’d grabbed the … Continue reading →

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Further On Up the Road

Posted on Saturday 25 January 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Last night’s favorite song, actually, still listening to Springsteen’s The Rising. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhpjkkaK5EY

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I Visit You in Another Dream

Posted on Thursday 16 January 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Today’s favorite song, from Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising “I break above the waves, I feel the sun upon my face.” It’s a beautiful song, even though it’s about a terrorist suicide bomber… see here

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Yesterday’s Favorite Song

Posted on Monday 23 December 2013 by Mark R. Kelly

Didn’t have a chance to post until today. Another track from the new Moby album.

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Today’s favorite song: Wake Me Up

Posted on Saturday 7 December 2013 by Mark R. Kelly

Only just now saw the video; responding to having heard the song half a dozen times on KCRW and KROQ this past week.

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TNT for 2

Posted on Monday 14 October 2013 by Mark R. Kelly

My favorite song on the Neil Finn/Pajama Club album of a couple years ago, for some reason running through my head in that half-awake, half-dreaming state just before the alarm went off this morning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U16fBw85nE

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