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Adventures man Terry Sharpe on 'final' gigs and memories of 1980s pop success
4 min · · HAVING proudly represented Belfast through the 1980s pop wars with a string of fine singles including Send My Heart, Feel The Raindrops, Your Greatest Shade of Blue and their top 20 anthem Broken Land… · Shared by 5, including Neil Hart 💙
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature
5 min · · A hip-hop artist and scholar says that while rap stresses the oral tradition, the music is also rife with references to a rich range of literature that spans the globe. · Shared by 278, including Neil Hart 💙
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Music May Improve Mental Health as Much as Exercise, Research Shows
2 min · · In new review of data from 26 different studies, researchers determined music, exercise equally beneficial for benefit mental health · Shared by 525, including Neil Hart 💙, John Paul Caponigro
It's Nice That
The Beatles get two new animated music videos, harnessing type and 1300 oil paintings
· Filmmakers Danny Sangra and Em Cooper have been tasked with visually renewing Revolver tracks for today’s audience. · Shared by 37, including Neil Hart 💙
Aeon+Psyche
Music is a philosophy, rich in ideas that language cannot say
6 min · · Musical thinking offers a means for composing our lives and a philosophical foundation that embraces both sound and silence · Shared by 149, including Matthias Lampe, Mario Clemente, Neil Hart 💙, Miguel Angel Escotet, John Hagel, Jason Silva, Simon C
The Atlantic
Is Old Music Killing New Music?
10 min · · Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking. · Shared by 329, including Jeff Atwood, Tactical Tech, Matthew Perpetua, Scott McLeod, Neil Hart 💙, Kristy Tillman, Paul Kedrosky, Lydia Polgreen
Brain Pickings
David Bowie on Creativity and His Advice to Artists
2 min · · “It’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations” · Shared by 343, including Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Neil Hart 💙, Esther Schindler, Ian M Calvert
The Atlantic
A Stanford Psychologist Says He’s Cracked the Code of One-Hit Wonders
3 min · · What separates Blind Melon from Shania Twain? · Shared by 157, including Simon C, Esther Schindler, Johannes Dornisch, Neil Hart 💙, Mike Davidson
Big Think
The birth of pop: How catchy, disposable songs came to dominate the music industry
7 min · · The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and musical entrepreneurs. · Shared by 201, including Neil Hart 💙
Brain Pickings
Nick Cave on Music, Mystery, and the Relationship Between Vulnerability and Freedom
5 min · · “There is more going on than we can see or understand, and we need to find a way to lean into the mystery of things…. and recognise the evident value in doing that, and summon the coura… · Shared by 108, including Charles Duhigg, Neil Hart 💙, Matt Zoller Seitz
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
How Bob Dylan used the ancient practice of ‘imitatio’ to craft some of the most original songs of his time
17+ min · · Because Dylan draws from songs from the past, he has been accused of plagiarism. But this view has been colored by a distorted understanding of the creative process. · Shared by 256, including Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Neil Hart 💙
Brain Pickings
Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song
5 min · · “The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.” · Shared by 90, including Neil Hart 💙, Charles Duhigg
Brain Pickings
Nick Cave on Creativity as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Necessity of Hope in a Fragile World
5 min · · In praise of “the necessary and urgent need to love life and one another, despite the casual cruelty of the world.” · Shared by 200, including Neil Hart 💙, Stephanie A Kowalski, Gabriele, Charles Duhigg
Aeon+Psyche
Can you ‘feel’ the music? You’re probably an empathetic person
5 min · · People who are more empathic toward others are also more likely to have more feeling for the emotions communicated in music · Shared by 295, including Neil Hart 💙
Aeon+Psyche
Can music give you an orgasm? The short answer is yes
14+ min · · A song can take you on a journey of ecstatic arousal. Is music imitating sex, inviting it, or something else altogether? · Shared by 172, including Muhammed Öztürk, Jason Silva, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Josep M. Ganyet, Neil Hart 💙
The Pudding
Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary
4 min · · The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics · Shared by 180, including 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Roland Sailer, Liv 😷, Follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon (see below), hiten.eth, luis antónio santos, Ines Bieler, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Nat Eliason, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Stephanie A Kowalski, zeldman, Brian Solis, Bram Kanstein, Scott Hanselman 🌮, Jon Schwabish, Victor Tolosa, Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Pleil, Nico Müller 🇺🇦