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I was delighted to learn that Carrie Brownstein, a member of the sadly defunct Sleater-Kinnney, one of my favorite bands, is also a huge fan of the Replacements: …The Replacements are one my favorite bands. Not just at this moment, or when I first discovered them in high school, but a band I return to [...] This could turn out to be very handy: an application that allows you to download music from a friend’s iTunes library. Still in beta for Windows though. Hi. It’s me again, still with Solid Gold on the brain. Lucky for me, YouTube is there to function as a sort of way back machine. Here’s some samples of the goodness… Ozzy on Solid Gold. Who knew? I have no recollection of this event. Ronnie, Bobbie, Ricky and Mike… if I love the girl [...] Sometimes I have a hard time believing that a show like Solid Gold actually existed. We live in a time when pop music is ubiquitous. You can order CDs on the intertubes, down load new tunes on the intertubes and discover worlds and worlds of new bands and artists on the intertubes. So it seems [...] The song I have stuck in my head today is Fresh by Kool and the Gang. And I have to say I would totally jump at the chance to see Monsieur Kool and friends in concert. I have fond memories of not only Fresh, but songs like Joanna, Cherish and of course Get Down On [...] Laura Brannigan toured the world as a back-up singer for Leonard Cohen. The video for her song Self Control was directed by William Friedkin, of The Exorcist fame. I seem to recall some controversy around this video. These fun facts brought to you by my inner 14-year old. It’s probably best not to ask how and why I came across this awesome mashup. Simply set the wayback machine for 1990 or so and enjoy. After a little more than two years, my iPod has given up the ghost. I’m trying to decide whether I should just buy a new one, or get install a new hard drive to try and resurrect the old one. Heather notes that today is the 25th anniversary of the compact disc, the technology that obsoleted my once impressive cassette collection. I did not purchase my first CD until 1990. It was my sophomore year in college, and though I didn’t own a CD player, one of my roommates did. The CD in question? Living [...] When I was growing up, my parents were not what you would call avid fans of popular music. Their collection of LPs probably assumed its final form somewhere around 1968 and remained largely static after that. To the best of my recollection it contained not a note recorded after the initial coming of the Beatles [...] From this excellent (but lengthy – you are warned) piece on Frank Sinatra: No one could sing of loneliness better than Frank Sinatra— unrequited love, love gone wrong, love lost. Observers without number, noting the contrast between Sinatra’s life—always tempestuous and sometimes violent—and his tender, evocative, and sensitive singing, have wondered with the novelist Barbara [...] Last night I lay in bed and wondered how it exactly it was that I had come to own three CDs by Death Cab For Cutie. [...] |
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