Posts Tagged “I Hate Music”

More State Fair Music Announced

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More State Fair Music Announced

Approximately a month ago I posted the first set of announcements for the main stage entertainment at the 2018 Washington State Fair. What has been announced since then? How about local hero Macklemore? Or legendary act Chicago? First I’ll list off what’s been announced then the full list … oh, just keep reading. (Ticket prices…

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Music Monday: The Cars

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Music Monday: The Cars

I’m not sure when I was first introduced to The Cars. I remember watching Friday Night Videos and the video for “Shake It Up” from 1981, so this was probably it. I was beginning at this time to really become aware of popular music at the time, I was about 14 or so, and had…

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Music Monday: John I’m Only Dancing Again

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Music Monday: John I’m Only Dancing Again

I don’t get why this is being reissued. CHANGESTWOBOWIE is being reissued this week on vinyl, no extra tracks, and not the CHANGESBOWIE compilation that combined the two “changes” compilations. David Bowie has many “best of” compilations including the (relatively) recently released and completely career spanning Nothing Has Changed (which, even for those of us…

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Music Monday: Robert Palmer

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I listen to a number of different radio stations when I am driving around. Sometimes I listen to the classic rock station,  sometimes the “variety” station or the new/pop music station, the oldies or news, you get the idea. One artist I heard crop up the last few weeks on a couple of different stations…

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Music Monday: Versus

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I have mentioned before that I do spin classes. I have also mentioned before that I don’t particularly enjoy them. It’s not the instructor’s fault, or any problem with the studio. It really is my own disposition, along with the disagreement my body seems to have with the process. One of the things that I…

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Lulu (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 25)

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Lulu (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 25)

This was the album I wasn’t looking forward to. When I decided to examine Lou Reed’s solo career this year Lulu was the album I was looking forward to the least. I am not a fan of Metallica. Lulu is a collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica. I understand the two wanting to work together….

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Hudson River Meditations (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 24)

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Hudson River Meditations (Lou Reed  – Artist Of The Year Part 24)

There isn’t much to say about this album. It has four “songs” and the first two are approximately 30 minutes each. Lou Reed created these pieces to help in his meditation. So yes, this is mostly ambient music, a real departure from what we expect from Lou Reed. There are two shorter pieces as well,…

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The Raven (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 23)

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The Raven (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 23)

I got to see Lou Reed live in 2002, at the annual Bumbershoot festival. He was touring behind his previous album, Ecstasy, but also previewing his currently in-progress work, based on the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. I thought this was going to be a great album, a great marriage of Poe’s words and dark…

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Ecstasy (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 22)

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Ecstasy (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 22)

With this album that comes four years after Set The Twilight Reeling, an album about Lou Reed’s newfound adulthood love that made him feel like a child again, we get a return to the two guitars, bass and drum format  that was largely absent on the previous album. Here Lou Reed employs a second guitarist…

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Set The Twilight Reeling (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 21)

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Set The Twilight Reeling (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 21)

“Egg Cream” opens up Lou Reed’s 1996 album Set The Twilight Reeling and is essentially an ode to a childhood treat. That is what sets the tone for his first album in four years. Another song later on “HookyWooky” is a play on skipping school. There is a lot of that unbridled childhood emotion on…

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