Monday Vid
Among the various Breaking News bulletins on my phone when I woke this morning was the notification of David Bowie’s death. I think I’m like a lot of people of my generation: not a huge Bowie fan – I really didn’t know who he was until his 1983 album Let’s Dance, which was the poppiest, most mainstream of his career…
Friday Vid
“Listen Like Thieves” – INXS Already Friday of the first full week of 2016. Hard to believe we have just 51 weeks left before 2017. Which means only 50 weeks of shopping until Christmas. Better get a move on! If my records are accurate, I’ve never shared an INXS track in the Friday Vids series. Which seems like a terrible…
Friday Vid(s)
“Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” – Darlene Love With no more Late Night/Late Show with David Letterman, that means no more Ms. Love making her annual appearance to belt out the greatest Christmas song ever. So here’s a look back at her first appearance on his show in 1986, complete with a Spuds McKenzie commercial and a quick sit-down with…
Favorite Songs of 2015
So I suppose I should finally do this. I won’t say this was the toughest time I’ve ever had putting a list together. While some years the songs kind of sort themselves, there have been plenty of Decembers when I’m still trying to figure out what to include and in what order right up until I made my list public.…
Friday Vid
The Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby Christmas Special, 1957 Ol’ blue eyes. The Chairman of the Board. Frank Sinatra was born 100 years ago tomorrow. I know a few of my friends will be gathering in the suburbs of Kansas City to celebrate the occasion. I will be here in Indy, listening to some of Frank’s best Christmas songs, drinking…
Year In Music Preview
I’ve been struggling with my Music Favorites lists this year. Where I normally love sifting through everything I’ve purchased, streamed, and downloaded over the past year to put together my favorite songs and albums lists, this year it’s been a bit of a chore. My first inclination is to say that is because this has not been a particularly good…
Friday Vid(s)
For some reason this week I was thinking not backward, to Christmases past, but ahead ten years or so to Christmases future. When M. and C. are in college and home for their breaks and L. is wrapping up her high school years. I wondered if I would still have my love of the various pop culture elements of the…
More Of The Old This ‘n’ That
The holiday season is officially here! Which you know gets my juices going. It was weird to be sitting in Arizona last weekend, switching around TV channels while S. was in her conference session, and coming across a Christmas cookie show while it was pushing 80 outside. I spent one year in northern California – we moved west the week…
Friday Vid(s)
“Tunnel Of Love” and “Brilliant Disguise” – Bruce Springsteen A prominent music writer noted during the flood of articles about Born To Run’s 40th anniversary earlier this year that he couldn’t wait for Springsteen’s 1987 album Tunnel of Love to get the same treatment. He was kind of kidding, but also kind of serious. To most people, Tunnel Of Love…
Friday Vid
https://youtu.be/ri97Sk8Gw3s “We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions” – Queen at Live Aid A pretty good way to wrap up a pretty good week and month. I’ve posted Queen’s full Live Aid performance before. I will repeat what I said then: this may be the greatest live performance ever. Huge moment that the entire world was watching and…