Another week, another Friday Random Ten. This one is playing right now, and poor grrlscientist can actually confirm that yeah, I listen to this stuff.
| Bergfäst (Mountain Haunted) | Gjallarhorn |
| Before The Night Is Over | Gaelic Storm |
| My Weakness | Moby |
| Hjaðningaríma | Gjallarhorn |
| I’m not worried at all | Moby |
| The Good Times Are Killing Me | Modest Mouse |
| Forshyttan | Hedningarna |
| Don’t Make Me Dream About You | Chris Isaak |
| The Man Comes Around | Johnny Cash |
| Hot Hot Hot!!! | The Cure |
Well, you have the Cure. And Johnny Cash. So at least you have that.
There’s some good stuff there, alright. These days, however, I rarely bother with playlists and such at work. I have soma fm. Secret Agent is particularly nice.
“The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life.“
I am really enjoying this music, but I have been accused at times of possessing a rather eclectic collection myself (but PZ has even more eclectic music than I do!). and PZ’s speakers have such great sound quality that I almost melt every time I hear Moby, in particular.
oh, and i forgot to mention that one or more of the gaelic pieces that PZ plays have birdsong in them — ah, lovely!
you need to check out the band “Municipal Waste”
its perfect for those long and tedious lab sessions
Ehh, PZ, what’s with the recurring, emm, Viking element? I mean, I know your ancestors wore horned helmets and all that. But surely this points to an unhealthy tendency towards pillage?
Vikings are just pirates without the frilly shirts, so of course I’m into them.
Are you getting worried that I might come sailing up the Rhine some day, ax in hand, and say hello?
I’m always happy to see Gjallarhorn and Hedningarna on other people’s music lists. And you have Chris Isaak and Johnny Cash too. Very nice.
Hedningarna are old favorites of mine, something about the bands associated with your drunken college days I guess. The guys at noside.com have done a lot to improve my quality of life on this side ‘o the pond.
Oooh!! Oooh!! Scandihoovian music! Anything on Northside Records http://www.noside.com/ is just insanely good! But it’s much too intelligent to be very popular.
I’ve never heard Gjallarhorn in concert, but I’ve heard Hedningarna, Vasen and Annbjorg Lien once, Frifot twice and Hoven Droven several times, all of them phenominal. Hoven Droven, though. Wow! Their recordings are barely an echo of what they are in concert. Five totally ordinary looking middle-aged guys, but when they crank it up, look out! THEY ROCK like no other band I’ve ever heard! Seriously! Makes me just HAVE to go raid England! Makes this old Svenska pojke proud! Whew! Uff da. http://www.hovendroven.com/
BTW, this site seems not to support the extended character set. Makes Scandihoovian names look kinda nekkid without them.
Anyway, fine taste in music, Prof. Myers! You can inflict it on me anytime.
If you haven’t heard Hanne Hukkelberg yet, try and find her newest release. It’s a cross between Scandinavian folk and Andrew Bird!
Excellent, I also always inflict Gjallarhorn and Hedningarna on my guests. Also good, if you don’t know them, are Gåte http://www.gaate.no/ and Garmarna (garmarna.com).
and umm… I haven’t been drinking, really (maybe that’s the problem) but in case you reply to these, I mistyped the address up there. I was going to tout Northside by way of an excuse to correct it but I see the Pastor beat me to it so I’ll just sneak away and hide.
I like the new site but I miss pirate mode.
Afraid? Hardly! I’d be delighted if you sailed up the Rhine to terrify the local monks and peasants. In our case, though, you’d need to hang a louie at the Main.
Seriously, if you ever head over here, let me know, so we can lay in some casks of mead and whole roast boars.
Are you sure?
Tied previewing, and it seems like you have to use the HTML entities for them (for example å for å)
Funny thing, if you preview some text with html entities, the entities are changed into the letters, and you’ll have to retype the entities.
Still some work left for the tech-staff I guess.
Oops – I ment ˚ for å – as I said, previewing morphs the entities.
last correcting (for now) å for å
Heh! I have the first three Northside samplers, and finally broke down and picked up Gjallarhorn’s Sjofn. Excellent enhanced CD — watching Jenny Wilhelms dance around to “Suvetar” is great fun. (Hint to guys: She’s nekkid. And has every right to be.)