Posts Tagged “Music Monday”
I had this scheduled to go up yesterday, but messed up the calendar and wound up scheduling it for *next* Monday. I just discovered that mistake. Oh well. There has been enough written about Fleetwood Mac and the album Rumours that it almost feels cliche to write anything else about it. However….
A tough parenting decision once involved Green Day. I will get to that in a moment. Like so many others, I was introduced to Green Day through their single “Longview” and I kind of liked it, especially the bass line. What I was more interested in was how the rest of the album sounded. It wasn’t…
I met Chuck D once. I think it was 2002 at the Consumer Electronics Show. I was attending as press, covering whatever there was for video games at the time. He was there to talk about online music distribution. He knew that was where the future would be. We ran into each other, just about…
Last week at Boy Scout camp I missed the staff’s production of Frozen while I was back home for a couple of days. August apparently loved it, as it was a very lose adaptation that freely borrowed from other movies and storytelling elements. Kind of a half-parody/half-homage to the film. I heard all about it…
Saturday we came home from vacation and began unpacking. Part of reason we came back was to get ready for myself and August to leave for Boy Scout camp the next morning, but the primary reason for arriving home at the time we did was to take Déla to her birthday surprise. When it was announced…
1984’s Ocean Rain was one of the first “alternative” albums that I purchased. This was back in 1986 when I was really discovering music that wasn’t on mainstream radio. The album set a sonic atmosphere that I loved and I began exploring other releases from the band. One could describe much of the band’s sound as…
Over the years her songs would come on the radio or her videos would cross my view and I found them amusing and enjoyable enough. I never dismissed them, but I also didn’t give them much weight. When my daughter started paying attention to Taylor Swift a couple of years ago I paid more attention…
I was always aware of Queen, I imagine, in the background of my life, but it was 1980’s “Another One Bites The Dust” that brought the band to the forefront of my attention. Later that year the Flash Gordon movie came out. I was a fan of Flash Gordon, having watched the serials, so this…
I love The Damned. I mentioned that before though. I could go on about how they were the first punk band in England to have a record deal, release a single or an album, but chances are if you are reading beyond the title of this blog post you already know this. If you want…