Friday, July 28, 2017

Come as you are vs. eighties

The chords in the song "Come as you are" by Nirvana are a slowed down replica of Killing Joke's 1985 song "Eighties." The songs were so similar that Nirvana considered holding off releasing the song as a single. Killing Joke considered legal action, but when Kurt Cobain died, they decided not to sue. ("It's a short f--king life, mate - we could be going fishing or something sensible," lead singer Jaz Coleman explained).

Dave Grohl is a big fan of Killing Joke and helped them out by playing drums on their 2003 self-titled album.




via: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1931

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Sound of Ancient Languages

This one is not really about music, but about lost languages. Hear how sounds ancient languages like



  • Ancient Egypt / 3100 BC - 332 BC 
  • Achaemenids / 550 BC–330 BC 
  • Ancient Greece / c. 800 BC - c. 600 AD 
  • Ancient Rome / 753 BC–476 AD 
  • Assyria / 1813 BC–612 BC 
  • Göktürks / 552 AD-744 AD 
  • Hittites / c. 1600 BC–c. 1178 BC 
  • Akkadians / c. 2334 BC - c. 2154 BC 
  • Aztec / c. 1100 AD - 1533 AD 
  • Celts / c. 517 BC - C. 100 AD 
  • Mayans / c. 2000 BC - c. 1700 AD 
  • Sumerians / 4000 BC - 2000 BC 
  • Urartu / 860 BC–590 BC 
  • Vikings / 800AD - 1066 AD




Wednesday, July 5, 2017

The Evolution of Audio Players

With 219 engines of aural bliss from 1840 to the modern day (including everything from Edison’s early phonograph to the Disco Lyte boombox to the Sony Walk/Discman all the way to the rise of the iPod), “The Advance of Audio Apparatuses” will be music to your eyes.



via: https://theawesomer.com/history-of-music-players-chart/257629/