Minor Key Music
Minor Key Music 81: C. K. Strong – Sweet Talkin’ Candy Man
Russ Meyers, infamous for low budget titty movies, took a foray into modest budget titty movies with 1970’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Not only was it, like the rest of his oeuvre, an artistic masterclass from the mind of a horny teen on a meth bender, it also has one of the most…
Read MoreMinor Key Music 80: Pet Shop Boys – New York City Boy (Thunderpuss remix)
I’ve talked about disco on MKM before, and even about the Pet Shop Boys before, but I’ve never featured a song that was quite SO disco and quite SO Pet Shop Boys as today’s song: https://www.isleyunruh.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pet-Shop-Boys-New-York-City-Boy-Thunderpuss-2000-Club-Mix.mp3 I first discovered Pet Shop Boys with this version of “New York City Boy,” via a friend group (shout…
Read MoreMinor Key Music 79: Shirley Collins – The Cherry Tree Carol
I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”. Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like. No, not [just] black metal, I’m talking about music in a minor key. I’m a happy guy, but there is something about sad, sad songs…
Read MoreMinor Key Music 78: Solid Space – Destination Moon
I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”. Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like. No, not [just] Black Metal, I’m talking about music in a minor key. Sure, I’m a happy guy, but there is something about sad,…
Read MoreMinor Key Music 77.5: Merry Medieval Christmas
As an apology for last year’s Christmas playlist of underground black/death metal songs, I thought I’d do a list this year of songs that actually celebrate the birth of Jesus, rather than decrying his lack of goatborn blood. I love all types of pre-classical Western music, but for today’s list I wanted to limit my…
Read MoreMinor Key Music 77: Mick Softley – Time Machine
It’s no secret that I love me some folk music. My first exposure to folk music was pretty much every black metal fan’s first exposure to folk music–via neofolk music. After bands like Death in June taught me the joys of 3 chords, strummed with no distortion, over vocals of dubious merit, and accompanied by…
Read MoreMinor Key Music 76: Mihâly Vig – Horse (from The Turin Horse)
The Turin Horse is one of those films that film school grads with a fragile sense of self-worth insist they like even though it’s really just 150 minutes of watching an old dude eat a potato and they goddamn well know it. Still, these same film nerds double down on the belief that The Turin…
Read MoreMinor Key Music 75: Moon Martin – Hot Nite in Dallas
The 1970s, for those of us who weren’t there, (and thus didn’t already know) is an often overlooked decade of rock music. I’d always thought of the 70s as that dead zone between the years that brought us Woodstockesque psychedilia and the years that brought us heavy metal. Surely there was nothing of importance, musically…
Read MoreMinor Key Music – Wedding Edition!
For those who haven’t heard, I got married last month! You can read all about it… HERE However, I wanted to devote a quick Minor Key Monday post to featuring the 30 most minor key songs played at our wedding (even though most of these have already been featured on Minor Key Monday). Laura and…
Read MoreMinor Key Music 74: Shannon – Let the Music Play
Minor Key Monday is back, now in its new, non-weekday specific form! I will continue to add to this feature as I stumble across new epic and/or sorrowful music. Also, I have a new page where I have collected each of the previous year’s Minor Key Monday posts in convenient playlist form, you can listen…
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