No one remembers them nowadays, but the duo David + David (Baerwald and Ricketts) made one of the greatest albums of the Eighties with Boomtown. It contains the hit Welcome To The Boomtown as well as many other great songs, … Continue reading The February 6th Night Thread Remembers David + David
In which things happen proceeding from last week. Episode 9 is directed by Gordon Smith and releases on Apple TV on December 23, 2025. Come discuss it here! Wah! We have to wait sooooo long for the next season!! Continue reading PLUR1BUS Season 1, Episode 9: “La Chica o El Mundo”
In which things happen proceeding from last week. Episode 8 is directed by Melissa Bernstein and releases on Apple TV on December 19, 2025. Come discuss it here! And I just want to say, wow, there’s a lot to process … Continue reading PLUR1BUS Season 1, Episode 8: “Charm Offensive”
In which things happen proceeding from last week. Episode 7 is directed by Adam Bernstein and releases on Apple TV on December 12, 2025. Come discuss it here! (I AM NOT TRYING TO INFRINGE ON ANYONE BY MAKING THIS THREAD. … Continue reading PLUR1BUS Season 1, Episode 7: “The Gap”
Where to begin with the tangled web which is The Beatles Anthology as released on Disney+ this year, and augmented by a new Anthology 4 album to join the original three, which have now been remixed and remastered? On paper, … Continue reading And In The End: The Beatles Anthology, 2025 Edition
This is not an album review. This is a post which I would have put in the Political Thread, but it’s much too long for that. I’ve had a lot of thoughts about the new release of the boxed set … Continue reading Some Time On The Avocado: Thoughts on John and Yoko’s Music from 1972
Bruce Springsteen’s album Nebraska was released September 30th, 1982. I don’t know if I bought it that day, but I owned it shortly afterward. I was not a huge Springsteen fan, but I think I owned Born To Run, and … Continue reading Second Look: Nebraska—Bruce Springsteen
The only fictional movie Paul McCartney has made as a solo artist, Give My Regards To Broad Street is, unfortunately, a mess. But for Beatles/McCartney fans, it can be an interesting mess. Some background. John Lennon had been assassinated in … Continue reading Movie Review: Give My Regards To Broad Street
By now we all know (I hope) that a remastered set of The Beatles Anthology has been completed and will be released in late November. We also know that this will include a fourth two-CD set of both new material … Continue reading Discussion Thread: The Beatles Anthology 1-4
OK, you got me. This is more like my 24th Look. I’ve seen this film more times than I remember, starting way back in 1979 or so. However, I feel it’s time to look at it with new eyes. Wide … Continue reading Second Look: Help!
I had forgotten all about this song, but it’s one of the Kinks’ best. Quite appropriate this weekend, I think. Continue reading The 7/13 Day Thread Wishes It Could Fly Like Superman
”If you love Barbie, you should watch Legally Blonde,” Spouse said to me. I’d avoided it because something about the premise set me on edge. Still, it had stood the test of time, and if Spouse had enjoyed it, it … Continue reading Late To The Party: Legally Blonde
Now the dry smell of hay, the motion of the waters, made him think of sleeping in fresh hay in a lonely barn away from the loud highways, behind a quiet farmhouse, and under an ancient windmill that whirred like … Continue reading The 4/8 Night Thread Quotes Ray Bradbury
Groceries in car, ran upstairs, here you go. Continue reading The Lynn’s Rushed Day Thread
Today is the second day of the retirement of my life. This isn’t an April Fool’s Day joke. My last day of full-time employment ended on March 31st. After working in the health care sector for almost forty years, I … Continue reading The 4/2 Day Thread Celebrates My Second Day of Retirement
I found this in Dropbox and reread it, and it still makes me laugh. I hope you enjoy it, too. Obviously, I have way too much time on my hands. Continue reading Rashomon Island
Going fast, coming soon We made love in the afternoon Found a flat, after that We got married Working hard for the dream Scoring goals for the other team Times were bad, we were glad, We got married I love … Continue reading The 10/28 Day Thread Celebrates 35 Years
Fresh off the phenomenal (critically and commercially) success of his last album Band On The Run, Paul McCartney went to Abbey Road and filmed a documentary of his new configuration of Wings playing a collection of songs live in the … Continue reading Album Spotlight: Paul McCartney & Wings—One Hand Clapping
John Lennon’s Mind Games album has always been ensconced at the back of his catalog in terms of quality for me. I never thought it was a horrible album; just a boring one. None of the songs really stood out … Continue reading Album Spotlight: John Lennon—Mind Games
This isn’t really a Late To The Party, because I was at the original party, the Classic Party, before most of you out there even existed. I went to the party with the tall guy in the thirty-foot long scarf … Continue reading Late/Returning To The Party: Doctor Who (Modern)
This is big news in the musical world. The Biden Administration is suing Live Nation on the grounds that it’s been artificially hiking ticket prices. To which I say, “Well, DUH.” There’s something to think about, though, which I realized … Continue reading Live Nation Anti-Monopoly Lawsuit Discussion Thread
