A 60’s Indian sitar melody lives on in funk, soul, and a TV Western soundtrack Let’s go all the way back to the days of the British invasion in 1966 when the Rolling Stones claimed their third big hit on the American charts. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards co-wrote a dark tune about the death […]
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Unless you’re The Muppets, this is a song that cannot be duplicated in a studio. WE’LL DO IT LIVE! In 1975 Queen released one of the weirdest songs of all time that became a massive hit, t
Life and other commitments are getting in the way of me doing a proper post this week but I will return to regular blogging next week. If you want a hint of what’s coming let me just say that it
A moderate hit in Europe became a monster when American teens found it in art film soundtrack. I was not a teenager in the 90’s, but I was alive in the 90’s desperately wanting to be a teenager. Somebody we knew at school would have to raid their older siblings CD collection and then share […]
An American anti-racist rap anthem lives on in punk, trip hop, and Brazilian death metal In 1989 rap group Public Enemy released a protest song about the treatment of blacks in America and the prison
In defense of separating artists from their art. Joss Whedon’s former wife of 16 year years Kai Cole has revealed her ex-husband to be not a real feminist and actually a hypocrite in a guest blo
A song made by a Jewish man and a black woman about Southern violence still resonates. The events in Charlottesville last weekend has stuck in my mind in a way that few other incidents during this tumultuous administration have. I come from a southern family, though I was not born nor raised in “The […]
The story of a cover song from 1983 featured in a 2001 cult film that keeps being put into trailers in the 2010’s. Earlier, I put out a notice to other LGM bloggers asking for song requests for
Featuring Shirtless Patrick Swayze, Sam Cooke, Elvis, and a Swede. “Unchained Melody” is one of those songs where the cover became more famous than the original. It first appeared on the s
This week I’m taking us back to another “sexy” song that has endured since the early 90’s. This time from every teenage boy’s favorite rock band before circa 2003: Nine Inch Nails. I actually hated “Closer” as a teen. Something about the way all the boys at school sang it made my skin crawl. The […]
Not long ago I did a Flashback Friday post for Chris Cornell who committed suicide at the too young age of 52. This week Chester Bennington, the lead singer of Linkin Park who had also sung at Cornel
It’s the height of summer and I’m hard at work with family in town playing tour guide. I also have a birthday I need to really party hard for. Unfortunately, I don’t have a whole lot