Posts Tagged “Music Monday”

Music Monday: A Night At The Opera – Queen: Artist Of The Year Week 4

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Music Monday: A Night At The Opera – Queen: Artist Of The Year Week 4

This was, of course, the big album that changed everything for Queen. Bolstered by the success of Sheer Heart Attack, but frustrated with the lack of monetary compensation (the band was broke) Queen successfully negotiated their way into new management, a new contract, then headed into the studio to make the best album they could….

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Music Monday – Artist Of The Year: Sheer Heart Attack (Queen Week 3)

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Music Monday – Artist Of The Year: Sheer Heart Attack (Queen Week 3)

After Queen II was released the band went on tour again, and unfortunately their trip was cut short as Brian May fell ill. That afforded Queen the opportunity to write songs and get back into the studio. Sheer Heart Attack, Queen’s third album, was the band’s second release of 1974. Much of the album has…

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Music Monday – Artist Of The Year: Queen (Week 2)

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Music Monday – Artist Of The Year: Queen (Week 2)

Songs from the bands early days, pre-Queen even, were constantly being worked on and when it came time to work on the band’s sophomore album some of those found their way into the recording studio. Certain ones, such as “Seven Seas Of Rhye” were completely redone from the first album, or perhaps, finished, for this…

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Music Monday: Love

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“I’d like to know about how you instill your love of music into the kids.” That was a question recently posed on my query looking for more topics to post about. Short answer? I don’t. Slightly longer answer? I just play music I like. Alright, so the long answer is the rest of the post….

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Music Monday – Artist Of The Year: Queen (Week 1)

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Music Monday – Artist Of The Year: Queen (Week 1)

I had previously mentioned that Queen was my “artist of the year” a couple of years ago, but I only gave the band cursory attention. Since collecting the band’s albums on reissued CD recently I have been listening to Queen a lot over the last few years, and as a result I now feel better…

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Music Monday: Beatles Week 2018 Introduction

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Music Monday: Beatles Week 2018 Introduction

It is time for my annual Beatles Week, a celebration of the band as well as a way to keep blogging as well as part of my ongoing analysis of The Beatles. I missed last year because of dad’s sudden hospital admission and death. Other than that instance, every year I have been able to…

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Music Monday: Run, Run, Rudolph

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I was reminded of a version of this holiday classic this morning at spin class. We might all be familiar with the original, and we should be, by Chuck Berry. It’s a fantastic tune that works not only as a Christmas tune, but also a great example of early rock and roll. The song “Rudolph…

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Music Monday: The Worst Christmas Song?

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Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but “Last Christmas” is probably the worst Christmas song. Perhaps even worse that “Baby It’s Cold outside” which is saying something. Let’s look at the lyrics. I’m not even going to examine the music, which is serviceable, if just barely and over-produced. The first line is alright, I mean,…

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Music Monday: Paula Abdul

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Last week at spin class the instructor, among other songs, one by Paula Abdul. I had kind of forgotten about her. When she came out with her first single in 1988 nobody, not even me, paid much attention. It wasn’t until “Straight Up” (the song at spin class) that her popularity increased, and greatly. A…

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Music Monday: Total Devo

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Music Monday: Total Devo

After getting dropped by Warner Brothers, Devo then would sign with Enigma, a much smaller record label, which at the time was focusing on alternative and punk music (though it didn’t limit itself to those genres). Devo was one of the bigger acts in the label’s catalog, which should have been good all around, but…

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