Listened to last week: Stan Ridgway, Globe, Uriah Heep, Noel Harrison

Stan Ridgway – Camouflage, from the 1986 album The Big Heat

Globe – Freedom, from the 1996 album Globe

Uriah Heep – Fallen Angel, from the 1978 album Fallen Angel

Noel Harrison – Windmills of Your Mind, from the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair

Listened to last week: Puccini, Two-Mix, S.P.O.C.K., Kenji Kawai

Some scene from Puccini’s 1900 opera Tosca.  (Commenters joking about self-referential subtitles will. be. shot.)

Two-Mix – At the End of Journey, from the 2003 EP Do That Dance

S.P.O.C.K. – Sattelites, from the 2001 EP Sattelites

Kenji Kawai – Reincarnation, from the soundtrack to the 1995 movie Ghost in the Shell

Listened to this week: Christina Aguilera, Spark!, Petra, Air

Christina Aguilera – Ain’t No Other Man, from the 2006 album Back to Basics.

Spark! – Meningen med livet, from the 2010 album Ett lejon i dig.

Petra – Last Daze, from the 1990 album Beyond Belief

Air – Electronic Performers, from the 2001 album 10,000Hz Legend

Listened to this week: Alien Sex Fiend, Eero Johannes, Fejd, New Model Army

Alien Sex Fiend – Hurricane Fighter Plane

Eero Johannes – Mobile 363, from the 2008 album Eero Johannes

Fejd – Storm, from the 2009 album Storm

New Model Army – Today is a Good Day, from the 2009 album Today is a Good Day

Listened to this week: Wardruna, Gary Numan, S.P.O.C.K., Neil Young

Wardruna – Jara, from the 2009 album Runaljod – gap var Ginnunga.

Gary Numan – New Anger, from the 1988 album Metal Rhytm.

S.P.O.C.K. – Where Rockets Fly, from the 2001 album 2001: A S.P.O.C.K. Odyssey.

Neil Young – The complete Sixty to Zero, a portion of which was released as Crime in the City on the 1989 album Freedom.  Did you know there was a full-length version of this song?  I didn’t.  I love YouTube.

Den ultimate mandagsfølelsen

Jeg elsker mandager.  Jeg liker alle dager, men mandager spesielt.  Mandag er et blankt ark du kan fylle med hva som helst.

Dagen i dag, årets første arbeidsdag, i et nytt tiår, er dermed den ultimate mandagen.  Mandagen alle andre mandager misunner.  En mandag for optimisme og store planer.

En mandag for å høre på usannsynlig heroisk filmmusikk:

50 years of Cab Calloway

Jumpin Jive

Through far marches of acres wild

Yesterday at work I listened to Jethro Tull’s entire 70′s catalogue. I’m not actually a fan, it was just there on my hard drive, and I haven’t used it up yet as work music. By the end of the day, I had written a lot of code, and also picked out my two favorite Tull songs:

Jethro Tull – Acres Wild

Jethro Tull – Crossfire

Vain yksinäinen vire tuulen soi

Moonsorrow – Raunioilla

Ensiferum – Sword Chant

Manticore – The Rise of the Black Moon (if I’d found a good version of the Archgoat original on YouTube, this would have been an all-Finnish post)

Of the cold northern breeze