Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mpsKVj3178FAsV3a7zz4J?si=0Fs_U0NFS6–2kWaPLJEHfQ A strange weekend in our house. St. P’s always has a four-day weekend surrounding President’s Day. This year is no different. However, CHS does not take any days off. So while C and L get to sleep in today and Monday, M has a normal schedule. It is messing with my head a little for some reason. It being…
Friday Vid
“Rock With You” – Michael Jackson Today was a late start day for CHS, and I have an appointment this morning, so no time for a full playlist. Instead I share this wonderful video and a link to a new site fellow music junkies should absolutely bookmark. Richard Challen is a music journalist who is a regular commentor on Tom…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 36
Well crap. When I posted RFTS Vol. 37 last week I did so not realizing I had yet to post Vol. 36. So they are out of order. I apologize for the error. Chart Week: January 30, 1988 Songs: “Push It,” Salt-N-Pepa; “Pump Up the Volume,” M/A/R/R/S Chart Positions: #26, 11th week on the chart. Peaked at #19 the week…
Friday Playlist – Something Special
Something different this week. A few days back I had a sudden memory of a song I had not heard in years. It was just a snippet, but it stuck with me throughout the day. It wasn’t a famous song. It was by an artist I hadn’t thought of in nearly 20 years. When I checked Spotify, the song was…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 37
Chart Week: January 30, 1982 Song: “Waiting for a Girl Like You” – Foreigner Chart Position: #2, 17th week on the chart. Spent 10 weeks at #2. Chart geeks like me love the little tidbits that give the history of the charts added context. Highest debut, most hits by one artist in the top ten, biggest drop from #1, etc.…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6CI01EFpeeP4BoBWwBTGyK?si=GIelrZt2SFSIuLxPuIBvPA “Dance of the Clairvoyants” – Pearl Jam It’s been seven years since we’ve had a new Pearl Jam album. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Their last couple albums were uneven at best, teetering toward mid-life mediocrity at worst. A new album is set for a spring release, and we got the first single this week. It’s different, which…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5RTUCbIvPfEeb6BwAWoXw7?si=sqRYJzZgSn6IiHhDKKNMBQ “Cheap Regrets” – The Districts Looking through my Liked Songs playlist in Spotify and my iTunes library, I don’t know that I’ve ever listened to this band. Apparently this song is a departure from their usual sound. I really dig its blend of modern dance, classic disco, and indie rock. “It Helped” – Yakima When I think of Scottish…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 35
Chart Week: January 15, 1983 Song: “Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy” – Sammy Hagar Chart Position: #27, 6th week on the chart. Peaked at #13 for two weeks in February/March. One of the disappointments of the iHeart Radio Classic American Top 40 channel is that only so many of the old countdowns have been digitized and, thus, countdowns are…
Friday Playlist
Happy Friday. It is warm and rainy in Indiana, feeling more like April than January. I’m sure we’ll pay for this down the road. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7mKAnShaqysQaeMiApmmMx?si=p8lnoV5AQHew9tD8ur8D7g “Texas Sun” – Khruangbin and Leon Bridges. What a lovely, interesting song, combining Khruangbin’s world music influences with Bridges’ old school soul sound. They have a four song EP set for release next month. “Alien…
Friday Playlist
Wow, is it Friday already? Time to kick off the new year with some new tunes. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0zOSLehoazSUNCPOSljdvV?si=gE4NbSQbQ-mSd5xWbaiexA “All Is On My Side” – Sam Fender. Two weeks ago one of my brothers-in-music sent me a message saying that he was really craving some new War on Drugs music. Two days later this song dropped and I pointed out that his…