David Bowie has died at the age of 69, of cancer. You may remember him as the guy who changed the direction of rock six or seven times. I wish I had something clever to say here, but I don’t, so just read the AP’s retrospective (or Wikipedia‘s, if you’re reading this in a dystopian… Continue reading R.I.P. David Bowie
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The Boomtown Rats – I Don’t Like Mondays Yazoo – Tuesday Elvis Costello – Wednesday Week The Chameleons – Thursday’s Child The Cure – Friday I’m in Love The Dead Kennedys – Saturday Night Holocaust (it was either that or 10:15 Saturday Night, but that would be two Cure songs in a row) U2 –… Continue reading Weak Week
Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Restaurant Massacree Anne Clark, All We Have to Be Thankful For William S. Burroughs, A Thanksgiving Prayer The Vyllies, The Food Prayer Jimmy Cliff, Piece of the Pie The Beatles, Honey Pie Led Zeppelin, Custard Pie The Godfathers, Cold Turkey Funker Vogt, Thanks For Nothing
The Police, Someone to Talk To Opposition, Small Talk Laurie Anderson, Talk Normal Butthole Surfers, Let’s Talk About Cars Talk Talk, Talk Talk The Strokes, You Talk Way Too Much Freezepop, Less Talk More Rokk Cliff Richard, We Don’t Talk Anymore
Because I hate all of you and want you to suffer as much as I have, you get a double helping of Christian glurgey WTF. The first part is The Monkey Song, perhaps the catchiest expression of anti-evolutionary ignorance and superstition that I’ve heard. But stick around, because then they sing The Ecumenical Movement, an… Continue reading Your Friday Morning Gah
It’s raining out there, so here’s a song about a rainy city at night. It’s uncharacteristically upbeat for Anne Clark: http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/U3Ce3FlxiM4?fs=1&hl=en_US
Outside of Country music, at least. And those dogs tend not to be space travelers. http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/nH4RKkubfk0?fs=1&hl=en_US
Way back when, when I was converting my tape collection to MP3, I ran across a song by legendary Genevan blues-rockers (don’t laugh) Le Beau lac de Bâle that I couldn’t recognize. It didn’t seem to correspond to any songs in the album track listings I could find. I tried googling the lyrics, but couldn’t… Continue reading Hachèlème bouguille
Christmastime has a lot of traditions associated with it, so allow me to share one of mine. Back in, oh, 1984 or so, my best friend in High School and I went down to Barcelona for summer vacation. Aside from the usual stuff you’d expect two teenage boys on vacation away from their parents to… Continue reading Some Traditional Christmas Music
