Posts Tagged “I Hate Music”
Today is President’s Day. What better way to celebrate than with a song from the band the day is named after. No, wait, the band doesn’t have its own holiday? It should. “Some Postman” is from the 2004 album Love Everybody – the last to feature founding member Dave Dederer on guitar. In the video you’ll see…
You may wonder why I split up my look at Siouxsie And The Banshees into two parts. You may wonder why there are two parts at all considering the first part was a complete story. Thing is, I have gotten to like and appreciate the band more as time goes on. I’m not under the…
Does anybody else remember “Friday Night Videos”? This was a program that aired on NBC Friday nights after “The Tonight Show” a few years before “Late Night With David Letterman” took over that programming slot that night. Debuting in 1983, NBC was looking to capitalize on the popularity of music videos – and produce a cheap late…
I had been to concerts before. Most of my live music had come from festivals such as the Bite Of Seattle or Bumbershoot, but I was taken to a Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem concert in my youth and I did get to see the Beach Boys perform after a Mariners game (but that is…
After the lackluster reception to 1987’s Never Let Me Down, David Bowie considered giving up music for a while. The album didn’t sell as well as expected, and the tour suffered from technical problems and lackluster sales, partly because he was simply “going through the motions” after the blockbuster success of Let’s Dance and to…
I vaguely remember when this song was released in 1984. The music video isn’t that great, it’s interesting enough to watch once or twice, but that’s about it, so it didn’t get much play. When it was released in 1984 the radio station I generally listened to (mainstream rock) wouldn’t play it which is why…
I have used “Please Mr. Postman” before in 2013 but it is highly appropriate again this year. There is a new blog post, but I will re-use the blog title and song summary. Last year I used the stereo version of the song. This year I feature the mono. Listen and compare if that is your thing….
This is another song that was covered by numerous bands before The Beatles took it and made it their own. “Roll Over Beethoven” was a Chuck Berry song that was one of his early hits. This song would be a stable of The Beatles in their early years as one of the building blocks they…
“Slow Down” was released as a single in the United States but was part of the same E.P. that featured “Long Tall Sally” (the song that kicked off this year’s Beatles Week). BeatleSongs tells us it was written and performed by Larry Williams (who?) and it was not a major hit for him, but when The…