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Music Monday – Top 5 Billy Joel Songs

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Heidi-ho, it’s music Monday and I’m here once again to thrill and wow you with my musical choices.  Today’s list comes from my piano lessons as a youth.  I began piano lessons at the age of five.  I hated them.  But then by the time I was in middle school, I’d discovered Billy Joel, and thought that I, too, could be  Piano Man.  Alas, that did not work out, thankfully, I think, but that hasn’t tarnished my love for Bill.  Take a gander at my favorite songs (at least today) from this artist. The list is in no particular order.   Piano Man The song that started it all.  For some reason, I was fascinted by the fact that you could sing and play the piano.  (Bear with me,I was kinda young at the time.) [wpdevart_youtube]gxEPV4kolz0[/wpdevart_youtube]   Downeaster Alexa The music beneath the melody just makes you feel like you’re… Continued

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Music Monday – Top 5 Songs – The Police

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There were five Police studio albums released between 1978 and 1983.  I know this because I owned them all.  For Music Monday, let’s take a trip down memory lane and name my favorite track from each of these studio albums. Outlando D’Amour was the first album released by The Police.  They “broke out” with the hit “Roxanne”.  I don’t need to go into the whole story now, everyone knows what the song is about.  However, while I did like Roxanne, my oh-so-favorite track from this album is “So Lonely”.   Reggatta de Blanc Released in 1979, the hot “hit” from this album was Message in a Bottle. While I do love Message in all its iterations (the acoustic version is especially stirring), here’s my go to from this album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz1mEMiNPHQ   Zenyatta Mondatta The song “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” hit the U.S. charts with a bang and spent

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Music Monday – Goth Classical Music

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Hey! It’s Music Monday!   There’s nothing I like better on a cold winter’s evening (and sometimes in the summer too) is a cup of Irish coffee and some dark classical music.  Whether it be a mournful aria or a draggy dirge in a lovely minor key, the dulcet tones of a sorrowful violin or the lamenting mezzo-sorprano. I thrive on that shit. Forget about the dog dying in movies or some drama on television.  Youwant to bring a tear to my eye, play me a tune in a minor key.  Those gloomy chord progressions will get me every single time. Here we go.       Dido’s Lament – Dido and Aeneas, Henry Purcell In operas, someone always dies. Here, it’s Dido.  She’s taken poison because her great love, Aeneas, has abandoned her.  Grab the tissue and take a look at her first lines: (Belinda is her lady in waiting)

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Must See Events for October

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Greetings all and Happy October! Over here in New Jersey, USA, it’s hurricane season, which means the winds are blowing and the skies are deliciously overcast. Rain falls, mist gathers and there’s fog in the mornings. A perfect start to October, wouldn’t you say? So what are these must see events, you’re asking? With no further ado, let’s get the list going. Black Speculative Fiction Month Speculative fiction: (according to Wikipedia): Speculative fiction is a broad category of narrative fiction that includes elements, settings and characters created out of imagination and speculation rather than based on reality and everyday life. It encompasses the genres of science fiction, fantasy, science fantasy, horror, alternative history, and magic realism.[1][2][3] It typically strays strongly from reality and so may feature fictional types of beings like mythical creatures and supernatural entities, technologies that do not exist in real life like time machines and interstellar spaceships,

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