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
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[footnote]But never say never, right?[/footnote], because I have nothing to add. It’s all over the Web. Go look it up … 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.[footnote]Yes, I know about London Calling, but that didn’t see release on this side of the Atlantic until 1980. Too bad, as it was … 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
