Heavy Side Up Weekly Discussion
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Category: Music
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Your Go-To Holiday Get Together Album
The day gets darker. You put out some sparkling drinks on the table, whether it be champagne or Coca-Cola Zero Sugar. Guests are coming through the door. The glazed ham is almost ready. It’s a holiday party! You need something … Continue reading Your Go-To Holiday Get Together Album
I Spy With My Little EYE, A Weekly Shuffle Thread!
Welcome to another Friday and another Weekly Shuffle Thread! Today, our theme is not your ears, but your Eyes! Use your eyes to look into your library and share whatever songs you love with the word Eye in the … Continue reading I Spy With My Little EYE, A Weekly Shuffle Thread!
Name That Band! (By These Lyrics)
The game is simple! Post a few lines of lyrics and let others try to guess who performed the song! Rules: NO CHEATING by using a search engine! This is only going to be fun if you use your own … Continue reading Name That Band! (By These Lyrics)
Album Spotlight: The Beatles Christmas Album
Christmastime is here again/Ain’t been round since you know when… —The Beatles Did you know that the Beatles recorded a Christmas album? They did. Unfortunately, it wasn’t filled with their covers of songs like Good King Wenceslas and Rudolph The … Continue reading Album Spotlight: The Beatles Christmas Album
Song Spotlight: Go-Betweens, “Cattle and Cane”
The Go-Betweens’ “Cattle and Cane” is an atmospheric reverie composed on a comatose Nick Cave’s guitar and filled with fragments of evocative imagery (I really like “his father’s watch, he left it in the showers”) from songwriter Grant McLennan’s youth … Continue reading Song Spotlight: Go-Betweens, “Cattle and Cane”
Artist Spotlight: Pearl Jam
What IS it about Pearl Jam? Their status as the number two most iconic, quintessential rock band of the 1990s is nearly undisputed (they never did quite eclipse the memory of Nirvana[footnote]It is impossible to discuss this band’s early success … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Pearl Jam
Jaye Tyler’s Radio Show – Request Thread: 12/5/2017
Hey y’all. As you may or may not have known, I have a radio show on CHIRP Radio, a little indie station out of Chicago. We’ve been digital-only for 7 years at chirpradio.org (and on our mobile app, which you … Continue reading Jaye Tyler’s Radio Show – Request Thread: 12/5/2017
American Top 40 Flashback: December 8, 1979
The full chart from December 8, 1979: https://weeklytop40.wordpress.com/1979/12/08/us-top-40-singles-for-the-week-ending-december-8-1979/ All the Casey Kasem segments from this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suqnl4DymtQ How’s the chart as a whole? Decades are arbitrary markers of time, but there does seem to be a changing of the guard … Continue reading American Top 40 Flashback: December 8, 1979
Lo-Fi Hi-Fives: The Moldy Peaches-The Moldy Peaches
Welcome to the first installment of Lo-Fi Hi-Fives: a column where I examine Lo-Fi albums albums in search of gold nuggets from rivers of tape hiss. Lo-fi (“low fidelity”) music is recorded at a lower quality than the usual contemporary … Continue reading Lo-Fi Hi-Fives: The Moldy Peaches-The Moldy Peaches
Album Spotlight: Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
The Beastie Boys’ landmark sophomore album Paul’s Boutique is a bit hard for me to write about. It is a dizzying album that I’ve lived with for so long, yet I still feel like I have yet to unlock all … Continue reading Album Spotlight: Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
What’s the Concept?! is as Frigid as an Eskimo Pie
It’s time for another edition of What’s the Concept?! This week, we’ll take a gander at Alice Cooper’s 1975 album Welcome To My Nightmare. What’s the Concept?! Welcome To My Nightmare, like Electric Light Orchestra’s Eldorado, revolves around dreams. However, … Continue reading What’s the Concept?! is as Frigid as an Eskimo Pie
Heavy Side Up Weekly Discussion
A venue of discussion for fans of metal, punk, hardcore and all the countless related sub-genres. Continue reading Heavy Side Up Weekly Discussion
Name That Band! (By These Lyrics)
The game is simple! Post a few lines of lyrics and let others try to guess who performed the song! Rules: NO CHEATING by using a search engine! This is only going to be fun if you use your own … Continue reading Name That Band! (By These Lyrics)
The Best Weekly Shuffle Thread in the WORLD!
Hello, and welcome to the Weekly Shuffle Thread! Today we’re taking the Shuffle Thread on a trip around the world! Share any of your favorite songs with the word “WORLD” in the title of them, or if you’re a homebody, … Continue reading The Best Weekly Shuffle Thread in the WORLD!
Artist Spotlight: The Mystery of Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Now that December is upon us, it’s time to break out the usual accoutrements of the holiday season. Reindeer. Snowmen. Gingerbread houses. Nativity scenes. And, of course, blistering prog-rock solos played on Gibson Flying V guitars while laser light shows … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: The Mystery of Trans-Siberian Orchestra
The Avocado MegaMix 2017: Submit your Top Ten Songs
Hi everyone! Last year I asked everyone for their favorite songs of the year and mixed them all together into six CD length mixes. You can listen to them here: https://www.mixcloud.com/rambamthankyoumaam/ It was a lot of songs, and took quite … Continue reading The Avocado MegaMix 2017: Submit your Top Ten Songs
Songs by the Letter: Your Top F Songs
Oops! I almost forgot that I said that I would post this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. As a result, you’ll don’t get any clickable links for any of these, though I doubt they were being used that much anyway. … Continue reading Songs by the Letter: Your Top F Songs
Dubtrack Drama!
Now that I have your attention: it’s not that much drama. Not usually, anyway. However, we did have a user delete their WordPress account, which appears to have deleted the only Dubtrack-related post here on the new Avocado, so this … Continue reading Dubtrack Drama!
American Top 40 Flashback: November 26, 1977
The full chart from November 26, 1977: https://weeklytop40.wordpress.com/1977/11/26/us-top-40-singles-week-ending-26th-november-1977/ All the Casey Kasem segments from this episode (no songs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL0whbAVpqk How’s the chart as a whole? In its component parts– soft ballads, disco, and what we now call classic rock– it’s not much … Continue reading American Top 40 Flashback: November 26, 1977
Artist Spotlight: Sublime – Why They Don’t Deserve Your Hatred/ In Defense of Ska Rock as a Genre
Good morning Avocados and welcome to my fifth artist spotlight on this new website. If you haven’t read a M-AM Artist Spotlight before, I like to discuss a little history about the artist and/or my own personal connections to. From … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Sublime – Why They Don’t Deserve Your Hatred/ In Defense of Ska Rock as a Genre
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