The 2015 Ben Folds album So There features one of the most stunning examples of a meta-musical joke song, “F-10 D A”, a song so grand it basically puts every like-minded effort off of Los Doggies’ e’rebody to shame. To quote Ben, he wanted to write a song to “teach kids how to cuss,” as […]
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Multi-Tone Car Alarm
The Multi-Tone Car Alarm has six tones and they’re all wonderful. What urban soundscape would be complete without the bleepity-bloopity of a sine wave gone wild? Before dubstep had its way with us, before EDM consumed all pop music, there was the Multi-Tone. The first ‘tone’ is a series of ooey-ooies, followed by the rapid […]
Electronic Heart Sounds
The EKG’s got the high B! Click on the score to loop/stop. When you’re hooked up to an electrocardiogram, your heart beats evenly at 60 bpm. It doesn’t shuffle like the biological lub-dub of your heart sound; this is electronic music which doesn’t ever shuffle. As long as you keep the beat, you’re alive. However, […]
Windows Melodies
Windows 8 was a crappy mess of an OS, but the sound scheme was GOAT. Pardon my internet slang, but this was the only scheme I hesitated to turn off. We’ve covered other Win8 sounds here on this blog, but the ones that stand out over time are the sounds for the “hardware insert” and […]
Mystery Melody Monday
Hi fam; can you guess this melody?
Supa Hot Elmo’s Fire
The 1985 movie theme song “St. Elmo’s Fire”, originally written about paralympian Rick Hansen, was retooled in 2012 as “Tim Tebow’s Fire” dedicated to Christian quarterback Tim Tebow. It’s kinda like when Elton John’s lyricist retooled “Pizza in the Wind” to become the hit we all know “Candle in the Wind” and then Sir Elton […]
Ronnie Melodies
In 1986, Eddie Money had a hit with “Take Me Home Tonight”. The chorus of the song borrows a melody from The Ronettes ’60s classic “Be My Baby”. Click on the score to play/stop, just like Ronnie sang. The song is in the key of Db Major, but Ronnie Spector sings her old line over […]
