Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 7
Continuing my summer of 2014 series, which was begun right here and chronicled my history with said device, examining the music that ended up on my iPod byway of…
TMT: “I now declare this bridge open!”
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. It will be a special record in this ongoing mini-memoir of…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 6
Continuing my summer of 2014 series, which was begun right here and chronicled my history with said device, examining the music that ended up on my iPod byway of…
Same Song, Different Movie: This Must Be The Place by David Byrne & Talking Heads
This is the next entry in a series from 2012 that looks at the use of “needle dropped” songs, many of them popular tunes, in movies. Specifically, in…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 5
Continuing my summer of 2014 series, which was begun right here and chronicled my history with said device, examining the music that ended up on my iPod byway of…
Friday Forgotten Song: A Song of Joy by Miguel Rios
Serving as a prelude to what’s coming next in the summer music series I’ve going, let’s examine one of the truly forgotten songs of the ’70s. A…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 4
Continuing my summer of 2014 series, which was begun right here and chronicled my history with said device, examining the music that ended up on my iPod byway of…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 3
Continuing my summer of 2014 series, which was begun right here and chronicled my history with said device, examining the music that ended up on my iPod byway of the…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 2
Continuing my summer of 2014 series, which was begun right here and chronicled my history with said device, examining the music that ended up on my iPod byway of…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 1
I’ve had an iPod in my life since Steve Jobs released the dang thing in late-2001. Coming up on a number I always note, 13, as in…
Friday Forgotten Song: Watch Your Step by Anita Baker
Having run across this LP at last week’s Pasadena City College Flea Market and Record Swap, and added it to my vinyl collection, seemed a good…
Friday Forgotten Song: Everything That Touches You by The Association
Admittedly, many I’ve spotlighted in this forgotten song series, which honestly began on a lark, are of the way-back-when variety. Rarely heard by later generations. I’ve stuck with those that somehow clicked…
Reblogged » Cover Versions: The 20 best H.R. Giger record sleeves – The Vinyl Factory
Reblogged » Cover Versions: The 20 best H.R. Giger record sleeves – The Vinyl Factory. The good folk over at The Vinyl Factory threw a marvelous…
Best Album Covers: Cheap Thrills
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. The first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records back in June of…
Friday Forgotten Song: Still in Love by Angela Bofill
I remain a fan of the beautiful Bronx native and doleful singer, Angela Bofill. Another forgotten song post a couple of years back hopefully attests to…
Friday Song & Cover: Crying by Roy, Glen, Don, K.D. y Rebekha
My hometown colleague Sal Gomez reminded me that the great Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) celebrated a birthday this week. He’d have been 78, so I…
Best Album Covers: Undercurrent
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. The first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records back in June of…
Best Album Covers: Everyone Is A Door
This is the next entry in Best Album Covers, a series begun right here. The first successful long-playing microgroove record for the phonograph was introduced by Columbia Records back in June of…
Scene & Song: Jackie Brown and Strawberry Letter 23
There’s a reason the above movie poster is affixed to my closet door. Well, two actually. The second is it covers a crack on said door…
Reprise » Friday Forgotten Song: Everyone’s Gone To The Moon
There are songs, if I happen to catch them on the radio or the web, that can instantly transport me back to another time. To begin…
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