Possibly you think it’s this one? Or maybe this one? Perhaps. But he definitely thinks that he’s in this one: To wit: Trump: “The press makes me more uncivil than I am. I went to an Ivy League college.” — Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) October 25, 2017
Tag: music
Obviously the major event in music since I last wrote one of these posts was the death of Tom Petty. There is much to say, but I will simply link to this Patterson Hood remembrance, which is really ou
Jesus got his name in a cynical pop love song In 1989 British electronic band Depeche Mode released a song that your church youth leader can’t decide if he hates. A 1990 profile in Spin magazine
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 […]
I know that I just did one of these, but I had the chance to listen to a bunch of new albums this week and didn’t want the list to get too long. Plus it’s Sunday night so who cares. How ab
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
I want to bring up a comment about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame from the last music thread, all the way back in late July. The RnR Hall of Fame is a legitimately bad museum – it’s not kid friendly (which is not fatal, but come on now) and does not have anything […]
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 tee
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
This is the grave of Jackie McLean. Born in 1931 in Harlem to a jazz family, McLean became one of the premier alto saxophone players of his time. Knowing people such as Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker as a child surely did not hurt and by the time he was in high school, he was […]
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