The Berlin Fan Page

I really like the synthpop band Berlin. They were quite popular throughout the 1980s.

Terri Nunn is their vocalist.

Their music is accompanied by synthesizers. Just as The Doors had their trademark Jim Morrison male vocals and organ music, Berlin has Terri Nunn female vocals and synthesizer music.

It sounds really great!

I was really happy to learn at The Berlin Fan Page
this spring that the band, in fact, is touring once again.

So far, they have not hit my town yet on this tour. If the do, I will very likely go see them.

I saw them play once before, in Virginia Beach, back in the 1980s. It was a really cool concert. Nunn is a born performer, and a great singer.

Dido Live website

The Dido Live is really incredible.

It features QuickTime movies of live performances of 5 hit songs. That includes the wonderful Here With Me that introduced me to her poignant singing - the theme song from the scifi series Roswell.

I have bought a couple albums by Dido, one DVD of her videos, and listen to her a lot on my Mac and iPod. She is one of my favorites.

Check her out.

noting as I come across good musical things

I wanted to have a blog where I could note some of the great musical discoveries I made.

I have really enjoyed listening to music since I was grade school, maybe even in kindergarten.

I cannot sing at all, and I play the piano in a way that could best be described as not so good.

That does not mean I have no appreciation for a good riff, a bold refrain, a sad ballad, a lonely solo, or a happy chorus.

I like music and I think it is a good thing.

Other species might sing. They might even communicate by singing.

But we alone build instruments, write songs to four part harmonies, and congregate in the tens of thousands to hear them played.

We are the only ones that send our sound waves through the radio waves.

Some of us make music. But many, many, many of us embrace it.