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Top 10 Songs Performed in Movies (That Aren’t From Musicals)
Movies entertain us as both visually and audibly, and it’s easy for audience members to under-appreciate the role that music can play in making up the complete experience of a movie. This is, in part,...
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20 Dumbest Names of Music Genres
There are an alarming amount of just plain bullshit names for musical genres. Some have even wormed their way into the societal vernacular, and we forget just how bad and generally nonsensical they...
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Coolest Covers from my Vinyl Collection
Easily the best thing about collecting vinyl records is the cool packaging you get with it. I like CDs for their small storing size and occasional sweet extensive liner notes, but they pale next to a...
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Funk’s Top 10 Favourite Songs by ‘The Beatles’
Today marks two anniversaries – it as been 32 years since the death of John Winston Lennon, founding member of the The Beatles, easily the greatest musical group in history. It is also 32 years since...
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Top 10 Video Game Themes that Enhance the Player Experience
Video games have had a long and rich history and like cinema it uses a combination audio and visual elements to create entertainment. The quality of the graphics has always been a selling point for...
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Top 15 Cover Songs From ‘Like a Version’
Cover songs are a risky venture for musicians as the listeners are either going to love you or hate you for it. Sometimes they’re so good that they surpass the original like Hendrix’s version of ‘All...
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Musical Purchases of 2012 – The Top 7
I know, I know, I haven’t put much up on House of Geekery as of late, but blame that on a few personal issues and a new job. So, I thought I’d roll back through last year, and see what sort of music I...
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Top 20 Songs of the Past 20 Years
Obviously this is a list that will vary greatly from person to person. The massive amount of material for the list combined with the huge variation caused by personal taste – the combinations are...
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Creating the Perfect Halloween Soundtrack
We now reach the seasons when the nights begin earlier and carved up gourds lit by candle light adorn people’s front it doors, I personally like to believe it is the most wonderful time of the year....
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The 10 Most Manly Disney Songs
The Disney Princess brand is heavily marketed towards girls. You can tell because it’s all pink. The Disney company are perfectly happy with this arrangement – they dropped 8 billion on Marvel and Star...
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NPR Programs You Should Be Listening To
For many of us raised in the United States we know about NPR as the radio system which broadcasts from the far left side of the radio dial, funded by various foundations and listeners like you. Every...
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Ranking the Star Wars Soundtracks
John Williams’ work for Star Wars is amongst his most acclaimed. Thanks to his use of leitmotif (recurring themes for characters; a particularly Romantic tradition and perfect for film scoring),...
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DC Comics Young Animals: The First Issues
For those who have not been keeping up with the comic book industry lately DC Comics has shed the controversial move of the New 52 and are dominating the charts with not only their Rebirth, but also by...
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An Introduction to NERDCORE with Special Guest KID APOCALYPSE
It’s funny how things can line up. One thing I hang out for every week is the podcast ‘Jay and Miles Xplain the X-Men’. Recently they featured a guest in the form of Kid Apocalypse, a Nerdcore rapper –...
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‘Sun Records’-Episode 1 Review
In the 1950’s the city of Memphis, Tennessee (my proud hometown) became ground zero for a revolution which changed music forever. The city had been a massive crossroad of culture for the first half of...
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‘Sun Records’ Episodes 2-4 Review
For the review of the first episode of Sun Records click HERE The eight episode saga of the birth of rock n’ roll in Memphis continues to unfold and more players are introduced. Ike Turner waltzes into...
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Best Goth/Industrial Bands of the Eighties
Music of the 1980’s is often associated with; hair metal, shopping mall pop, and synthesizers; but let us not forget there was a massive dark undercurrent to the Decade of Excess. Rising largely out of...
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One of the most influential bands alternative/post-punk bands of the 1980’s was the Smiths. Hailing from the musical hotbed of Manchester England the Smiths were one of the first examples of an indie...
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Spotlight On: The Million Dollar Quartet
As some of you may have gathered from reading my work here over the years, I am proud to be a citizen of Memphis, Tennessee. Around the world this city on the banks of the Mississippi River is known...
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Audible Review: ‘The Sandman’
Possibly the biggest thing in the audiobook world recently was that Amazon’s arm Audible was making the ambitious move to adapt the DC Comics/Vertigo masterpiece the Sandman into audio form. No doubt...
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