Posts Tagged “Music Monday”
I have discussed this band a lot over the years and wasn’t going to say anything else but a new wrinkle in my relationship with the band came up and I had to post about it. First up is the new album, the band’s first in 7 years. While We’re At It is a great…
Lately I have been going through and cleaning up my MP3 files. Some of them have no band associated with them for some reason, or simply track numbers and no title. I was getting to my folder of Beatles music and decided to further split my collection into separate categories – by renaming the band…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
Coming on the heels of the artistic statement of New York, the follow-up collaboration with John Cale and events in his personal life, Magic And Loss captures Lou Reed at a point in his life where there are equal parts, well, magic and loss. His second marriage ended, he had explored themes surrounding the death…
“What is something you are suited to?” “Getting out of here!” The opening number in Songs For Drella sets up the origins of Andy Warhol, the subject of the first collaboration between former Velvet Underground bandmates Lou Reed and John Cale in two decades. Encouraged and inspired by the death of Andy Warhol in 1987,…
This is probably my favorite Lou Reed album. I remember when it came out, and I was already a little familiar with his work, having a cassette of his “hits” and hearing his music on the radio – I was not really listening to commercial radio at the time. What I remember about New York’s…