Category Archives: Music Geekdom

30 Day Facebook Challenge (Jeff Edition) – Day 3 – Oldest Song You Love

November 25, 2012 Jeff

After thinking long and hard, and digging deep into my musical collection, I came across the best of Glenn Miller. For those who don't know, Miller was one of the most influential big band leaders to ever walk the earth. He played, arranged and composed, some of the most recognizable, big (more…)Read More

A New 30 Day Facebook Song Challenge :: Day 3 :: Oldest Song You Love

November 25, 2012 Trev

Hands down this one goes to Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World". It is a song that I always associate with my grandfather, as it was one of his favourite tunes, so whenever I hear the original version by Louis Armstrong, I think of him. This would be the oldest song (more…)Read More

Toddlers – The Pop Music Barometer?

November 23, 2012 Trev

With my little one, we don't tend to expose her to a lot of the sacchrine enriched kid friendly music such as Barney and the like, instead we've always taken the approach to let her listen to what we listen to (within reason of course - she's not down with the (more…)Read More

30 Day Facebook Challenge (Jeff Edition) – Day 2 – Favourite Cover Song

November 23, 2012 Jeff

I often wonder what artists truly think about other musicians covering their original songs. Are they so sick and tired of listening to the track that they don't want to hear it anymore than needed or is it an absolute honour that someone else would want to perform their music? If (more…)Read More

A New 30 Day Facebook Song Challenge :: Day 2 :: Favourite Cover Song

November 22, 2012 Trev

If you've been following along with @HAFILAXtweets you already know that we're fans of a good cover song, Gaslight Anthem has been releasing some great covers, Ben Harper has some great covers and Me First and the Gimmee Gimmees are a punk band who play nothing but covers, however when I (more…)Read More

A New 30 Day Facebook Song Challenge :: Day 1 :: Favourite Song With a Colour in the Title

November 22, 2012 Trev

I'll see what I can do to ensure this is under 120 days this go round, but we'll see how that goes. If you didn't notice, Jeff will also be taking part in this challenge, so you'll have an opportunity to see his responses too. I hope you enjoy and here (more…)Read More

Being a Music Geek Used to be Difficult – Part 7 – The Mixtape vs. The Playlist

November 22, 2012 Trev

Fans of the film High Fidelity might remember the reverence that Rob bestowed upon the mix tape "...I spent hours putting that cassette together. To me, making a tape is like writing a letter -- there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be (more…)Read More

30 Day Facebook Challenge (Jeff Edition) – Day 1 – Favourite Song With a Colour In The Title

November 21, 2012 Jeff

First off I would like to state, for the record, that although this is the FB 30 Day Challenge, there is a good chance that this will take a little longer than that (maybe a 3 month challenge). With that being said, let's move on. Coming up with my favourite song (more…)Read More

30 Day Facebook Song Challenge :: Day 30 :: Your Favorite Song at This Time Last Year

November 10, 2012 Trev

This may have been the longest 30 days in the history of the world, but we've finally reached the end of the road for this 30 Day Facebook Song Challenge. The intent was to get me to start writing again, and what it ended up doing was giving HAFILAX a much (more…)Read More

30 Day Facebook Song Challenge :: Day 29 :: A Song From Your Childhood

November 9, 2012 Trev

The thing about being a Music Geek is that you're essentially a sponge for all sorts of music, good, bad, or otherwise. Songs are constantly leaving indelible marks all over your back-story which makes A Song From Your Childhood something of an interesting challenge. What I'm going to do is run (more…)Read More