Moments In Song #2 – Mel McDaniel ‘Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On’
Lord have mercy, Baby’s got her blue jeans on!
American cities with thriving music scenes in 1984 overlooked by Huey Lewis & The News in their #1 US Pop Hit ‘The Heart Of Rock And Roll’
Forgetting Minneapolis? The year of Purple Rain, Let It Be, and Zen Arcade? Inexcusable.
Song of the day – 378: No Mas Bodas
Their music is most welcome in this house: subtle, chiding, elliptical, warm, inviting.
Song of the day – 365: Tunabunny (a love song to Athens GA, part three)
The streets are wide and paved with grey. The grass is green unless it’s burnt or isn’t. The costumes are cheap. The rent is low rise.
An Incomplete Visual History of Short Trousers in Popular Music
Shorts have always been a little difficult to pull off.
Jad Fair – Beautiful Songs (The Best of Jad Fair) (Fire)
If people really did root for the underdog, if they really did want the unlikely nerd to be the hero, then Jad Fair would be a household name.
Song of the day – 231: Tunabunny
Bangs wept. This music makes me deliriously happy. It clatters, it splatters, it shatters, it matters. I’ve listened to the album front to back, back to front, sideways, length ways, every which wrong ways, adored the New Order steals, the slices of unrequited Bikini Kill/Skinned Teen screaming, the tributes to the female Captain Beefheart, the […]