The Soundtrack of My Life – The 60s
My local colleague Arlee Bird from Tossing It Out broached a meme a few years back that certainly intrigued: The Soundtrack of My Life As Arlee…
Best Album Covers: Sticky Fingers
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: Let It Bleed
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…
Hits, Horns, & Hatch: the 60s with Petula Clark & Tony Hatch
First crushes happen to everyone, including listeners of pop music. Perhaps more so for the latter since the eyes and ears are also involved. Mine would be…
A Song For This Day (and year): Take On Me
In honor of the New Year now upon us, I selected another song from the period that’s been ringing in my ears of late. A distinctly…
Stay Frosty: Year of Bests – 2014
A couple of years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns…
Merry Christmas
I know this song is covered by the likes of Taylor Swift, Madonna, The Pussycat Dolls, etc. But, no one in my mind will ever do…
Friday Forgotten Song: Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears
Reason why the British group so wonderfully named for the era, Tears for Fears, and their best album and song still registers with me. Everybody Wants to Rule the World, written by Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, and Chris Hughes, remains their biggest hit of the period. Even if it wasn’t the headlined single from the Songs From The Big Chair album. Producers thought it a bit bland and not important at the time.
Wrong they were as such is how pop hits are born, especially in this decade.
Reblogged » Stuff Running ‘Round My Head: LP of the Week – “Katy Lied,” Steely Dan (1975)
Reblogged » Stuff Running ‘Round My Head: LP of the Week – “Katy Lied,” Steely Dan (1975). My colleague Jeff Vaca’s splendid review over at his…
Best Album Covers: Ladies and Gentlemen… We Are Floating in Space
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…
November Prints
Wife: “Just substitute the word ‘obsession’ when you see hobby or interest.” During a span in my life, I carried a 35mm SLR camera (Canon AE-1,…
Best Album Covers: Under the Skin
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…
Forever Autumn: Year of Bests – 2014
A couple of years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 13
Concluding my summer of 2014 series, which was begun right here and chronicled my history with said device, that examined the music that ended up on my iPod…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 12
Finishing 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 films that…
Labor Day Special: Beatles Mixtape for Joe
Yesterday, friend and author Joe Maddrey over at his blog, Movies Made Me, noted this in his enjoyably contemplative Music Made Me #1: Nirvana vs. Pearl Jam post:…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 11
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…
A Back-to-School SLIFR Movie Quiz? Count Me IN!
My good friend Dennis Cozzalio, he of the wonderfully named Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule blog, has come up with yet another of his cinematically off-the-wall but…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 10
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 9
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…
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