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I really like music. I enjoy listening to it, and I enjoy making it. Over the years I have been involved in three bands, produced a double-handful of songs, and been on the radio twice. But I have a confession to make: I never learned to play guitar.

I’ve a story I like to tell. It’s a band story, a bar story. Out of all the weird things that have happened to me, this one stands out for its Ozzy Osborne-like weirdness. I’ve been meaning to get it down in text for several years — for posterity if for no other reason.

So this is a song from the band I was in, circa 1995. It’s pretty terrible — we’re out of tune, the vocalist is flat and also sharp, and don’t even get me started on the EQ.
However
I still love how we brought the rock around 1:42, and then the…

Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik (on period instruments)
It sounds strange because they tuned to a different key in the classical period. Kind of weird to think of all the classical music we hear that is played wrong!

The Neuroscience Of Music | Wired Science: Two points from this article:
1. Music stimulates the same part of the brain stimulated by cocaine, food, sex, etc. It’s all the same pleasure center.
2. A lot of the pleasure is from the build-up pieces of …

After Smashing Pumpkins disbanded, Billy Corgan really let himself go

Washing machine carries its own beat: This is great, I have noticed this stuff before.
Also, the reason it sounds like a beat is explained (or at least described) in this Radiolab episode about language and music (the “sometimes behaves so strangely�…