On 20-2-2009 11:50, Invisible wrote:
>>> Heh. Well, as you know, I've never really had "friends". 
>>
>> That is not true. There's a lot of people here that are friend enough 
>> for this discussion to introduce you to other musical styles. And I 
>> think they did. Someone also introduced you to organ music.
> 
> I'm just saying, it's not like I had school buddies who I'd visit and 
> hear what they're listening to. I spend almost my entire life alone.

Guess what, me too. ;)

>>> However, that particular song spent months at or near the top of the 
>>> UK charts. Still, the tune is probably more memorable than the actual 
>>> words...
>>
>> Probably long after the time when I was still listening to the radio 
>> regularly. I stopped at the rise of Hiphop and such, when the majority 
>> of 'songs' on the radio were performed by people that could not play 
>> an instrument or sing. So my knowledge of popular music is very 
>> sketchy after, say, 1990.
> 
> Ooo, you just missed it. Insomnia was 1995.

Just? by a many years.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomnia_(Faithless_song)

Ok, I tried youtube. Never heard it before, I guess. Don't want to hear 
it again. Typical of the type of music that made me turn away from the 
radio.
Back to Moving Hearts for me.

> For a few months it was everywhere. And then a whole slew of copycats 
> followed it. (It used a distinctive pizzicato synch patch that 
> subsequently appeared everywhere.) 

Are you sure they were the first to use something like that?

> Heck, if it managed to get its own 
> Wikipedia page, it must be moderately cult. ;-)
> 
>> I see you resisted finding out who Hildegard was. ;)
> 
> Weird thing: I have trouble remembering words I can't pronounce. I have 
> no idea why that would be...

Ok, I'll help you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen

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