Tuesday, March 26, 2013

You Mean, Like...To Sleep?



You know your day is off to a good start when “Rock Me Amadeus” is playing on the radio


Jeremy, once again providing remarkably low standards to live up to.  Probably not meeting them most of the time, too.  


So anyway, for those who may not know, "Rock Me Amadeus" is an 80s synth-pop song by Austrian self-proclaimed "rock singer" Falco.  Despite violating Jeremy's Big Rule #1, which you should all be familiar with by now, it's actually a pretty catchy song that I like for some completely unknown reason.  

The song, of course, is all about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Austrian composer of a whole crapload of the greatest classical music ever written.  It wasn't Baroque, so it didn't need fixing.  That's a stupid joke that musicians appreciate on occasion. Your mileage may vary.  

Despite the fact that Mozart primarily wrote brilliant and often religious works, he also delved into the lower brow of music, including a work inviting the listener to Kiss A Part Of His Anatomy best left to less family-friendly blags. 

Also despite Mozart's inclination to classical music, I sincerely doubt that he would have an objection to part of his legacy being left to Euro synth-pop music, which is just as legitimate a form or art as any of his work.  Mozart would probably have tried his hand at a synthesizer at one point or another if they had existed back in the 1700s.

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