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Pink Floyd’s Animals finally gets the remix/reissue treatment

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Animals, Blu-Ray, DVD, Pink Floyd, Reissue, SACD

If you’re a hardcore Pink Floyd fan, you probably have the special box sets issues for Dark Side the Moon,

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Auto Tuned Animals Singing Rock and Metal Songs

April 7, 2017April 6, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Animals, Auto Tune, Cover Songs

I highly disapprove of Auto Tune unless the circumstances are exceptional. This is one of those times. There’s plenty more here.

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Music News 

Animals Who Scream in Human Voices

December 24, 2016December 23, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Animals

Not really a music story, but these animals are definitely in good voice. Damn funny, too.

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

Animals Can Rock, Too. Well, At Least They Have Rhythm

March 23, 2016March 23, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Animals, Rhythm

Both of my faithful bull terriers react to music. Adele puts both of them to sleep while Schmooze, the older

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Do Animals Like Music?

November 1, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Animals, Music

Do animals like music? I know that my bull terriers react to certain music in specific ways and that people

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Music History 

A Couple of Pink Floyd Facts to Make Your Monday Nicer

August 31, 2015August 30, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Algie, Animals, Pink Floyd

I’ve been a Pink Floyd fan ever since I discovered the joys of listening to Dark Side of the Moon

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And Now, A Llama Frolicking to DMX

June 20, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Animals, Dancing, Music, Vine

Thanks, llama, whoever you are.  You win the Internet today!  Go to BuzzFeed for a rapping goldfish, a twerking corgi

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Science Says Animals Enjoy Music the Same Way We Do

March 14, 2014March 14, 2014 Alan Cross 1 Comment Animals, Music, Music Appreciation

A couple of times a week, I give my dog a spa day.  The Faithful Bull Terrier is chauffeured to

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Music History 

Vanity Fair’s “An Oral History of the British Invasion”

February 12, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Animals, Beatles, British Invasion, Herman's Hermits, Oral History, Peter and Gordon, Vanity Fair

In you’re still swept up in all the 50th anniversary Beatles nostalgia, here’s a good read from Vanity Fair from

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Music History 

Alternate Pink Floyd: The Extraction Tapes

February 11, 2014February 10, 2014 Alan Cross 1 Comment Alternate Version, Animals, Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

A couple of interesting album emerged online over the weekend.  Called The Extraction Tapes, they feature alternate versions of Pink

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