So I’ve been hanging on Disney+ a lot the past couple of weeks and decided on two mini-reviews for tonight’s OT. First and foremost, Let It Be, the film, restored and released for the first time in a video format … Continue reading The 5/21 Night Thread Lets The Devil’s Chord Be
Here it is, the first look at famed director Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project for the past forty-plus years, Megalopolis (say that three times fast). Said trailer seems to consist mainly of Adam Driver doing something miraculous in a futuristic … Continue reading Megalopolis Teaser Trailer Thread
Back in 1986, The Police rerecorded one of their biggest hits, Don’t Stand So Close To Me, with a new arrangement and released it as a single. It had a completely different sound from the original; much slower and brooding, … Continue reading The P.S. Love Me Do Night Thread
This is one of the best live albums I own. It rocks, and rocks hard. A few amusing and amazing facts about this album: I don’t know which live record rocks harder, this or the Who’s Live At Leeds. Or … Continue reading The 3/18 Night Thread Is Live at Budokan With Cheap Trick
The first track of the Beatles’ White Album was a parody/tribute of Chuck Berry’s Back In The U.S.A. Written by McCartney, it took the joys which Americans felt in the nation and slyly converted them to a list of similar … Continue reading The March 4th Night Thread Goes Back In The U.S.S.R.
Chuck Berry’s Back in The U.S.A. was released in June of 1959, the perfect soundtrack for this particular moment in time, even if most people didn’t buy the single and caught up with it years later on a Greatest Hits … Continue reading The March 4th Day Thread Gets Back In The U.S.A.
This review of the Blue Album will be a little different from the last one, because most of its songs haven’t been newly remixed, unlike the Red Album. So I’ll focus less on the remixes and more on the song … Continue reading It’s All Because Of You: The Beatles Blue Album, 2023 Edition Review
This was almost an entirely different review. Quick background: The Beatles 1962-66 and The Beatles 1967-70 were originally released in 1973, two double LPs (vinyl) which served as their Greatest Hits. (For my thoughts on those collections, see this link: … Continue reading How Good It Can Be: The Beatles Red Album, 2023 Edition Review
So many thoughts. So much emotion. I’m not going to go into the whole backstory of this, the Beatles’ final number, because I have nothing to add. It’s all over the Web. Go look it up if you don’t know. … Continue reading The 11/4 Day Thread Considers Both Now And Then
Heijira is one of Joni Mitchell’s best albums and perhaps her most underrated. Her voice and Jaco Pastorius’s fretless bass glide on a mystical journey through America. Continue reading The 9/28 Day Thread Sings The Blues With Joni and Furry
I love this movie so much. I love the soundtrack. Especially, I love this tune. Continue reading The 8/21 Night Thread Wonders What It Was Made For
Back To The Egg is such an underrated album. I hope Paul is still considering a boxed set at some point. I think he missed a trick by not doing this song as a medley with We’re Open Tonight from … Continue reading The 8/19 Day Thread Is So Glad To See You Here
And then there was Pink Floyd’s The Wall, the other megaphenomenal double album release of late 1979. Unlike Tusk, The Wall sold around fifteen million copies in the U.S. It was truly a huge success. In the spring and summer … Continue reading Doubling Down: The 8/4 Night Thread Shakes Down 1979
Perhaps the most anticipated album of their career, Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk was one of the biggest musical sensations of December 1979 in almost every possible way. It was the follow up to their biggest album to date, Rumours, which sold … Continue reading Doubling Down: The 8/14 Day Thread Shakes Down 1979
I look at the T.V. Your America’s doing well I look out the window My America’s catching hell I just want to know which way do I go to get to your America? I just want to know which way do I go to … Continue reading The 7/6 Night Thread Is In Living Colour
With luck, at the time this thread goes live, I will be on a British Airways flight taking off for London in the United Kingdom! We plan to visit the British Isles for a little less than a week. Our … Continue reading The 6/21 Night Thread Is Leaving On A Jet Plane
Now And Then was a demo of John Lennon’s that the remaining Beatles worked on back in 1995, trying to make a new Beatles song out of it as they had with his demos for Free As A Bird and … Continue reading The June 16th Now And Then Night Thread
I always feel I have to defend this movie because it had the gall to beat out popular favorite Raging Bull for Best Picture. But Ordinary People is a great film which deserved to win Best Picture. It is beautifully … Continue reading 4/21 Ordinary People Night Thread
OTD thirty years ago in 1993, Matinee was released in the U.S. Directed by Joe Dante and starring John Goodman, it’s the tale of a teenager in October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His father is in the Navy … Continue reading The Matinee Day Thread
There are four songs which I own that could be classified as Christmas rap. I’m not going to talk about Christmas In Hollis by Run-D.M.C. or Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses, although I love them both, because everyone knows those … Continue reading The 12/19 Day Thread Does Some Christmas Rapping
