Musical Notes and the Tragedy of Math

What 5 Artists or Albums are you listening to right now?  A New Weekly Installment, inspired by my brother Andrew Rothbard.    I am no guru of one sound, and my eclectic tastes at times need refinement. (week of 10-11-2012)

Wowzer: Spiders (Rock and Rolled Me)

1.   Black Francis - Frank Black (off of Spotify)
2. Spiders: A band from Sweden that sound like they come out of the 1970's and great bands like Aeorosmith (Toys in the Attic), Blue Oyster Cult, and The MC 5.  Wowzer!  I am a fan of Southern Rock and Bluesy Chunky Music.  
3. Septembers Mojo collection.
4. The Digital Underground 
   (Italic means off of Spotify). 
5. Digster's Awesome Seven Hour Playlist for October and Rock and Roll.  

Check out the Cool Guys at Amoeba Records and their interviews with stars who shop there, and what lies within their bag.

Musical Notes and the Beauty of Math

Watch The Movie on YouTube

Numerology states that numbers have more meaning than quantity.   In fact the ancient priests believed that every thing could be assigned a number, and that this number could be associated with the nature of the thing.
Gematria: is the system of assigning numerical values to a word or phrases in the belief that words or phrases with identical numerical values bear some relation to each other, or bear some relation to the number itself as it may apply to a person's age, the calender year, or the like. 
IRON MAIDEN
9965   419455
18+11  5+13+10
9+2      18+10
11          28
             10
               1

As a whole their value is a three which means self expressive in many ways, verbalization, inspiration, and keen imagination, artistic gifts, acurate impressions, and insights never ending optimism happy and fun loving, enjoys life fully.
Negative:  Scattered Energies, Exaggeration, Unfinished Projects, Lack of Direction, moodiness, self-centeredness.

But Iron has a score of 11
Spirituality is emphasized more, but in essence the two traits, positive and negative apply.

Maiden has a score of 1
Initiator of action, a pioneering spirit, inventive ideas, independent, courageous.
Negative Traits: boastfulness, willfulness, egotistic, aggressive.  

So now, enjoy the video, Iron Maiden's "the Number of the Beast". 

Musical Notes: Mamma Shanna

These were the top songs for the time that the book is set at its conclusion:

(1991)

Musical Notes

Music Mentioned in Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

The Dead Win when you quit singing and let them take you on down the road with them. 

pg 237

AC DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap...


AC DC If you want Blood.



Johnny Cash: Folsom City Blues


And in Homage to the debut book by Joe Hill, this song was never mentioned, but seems to be the most fitting.  Heaven and Hell by the Dio lead Black Sabbath