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The Song In My Head Today. Random musings and more about rock songs and artists. Saturday, February 08, 2014. I know that this is Beatlemania Weekend - the mass media have decreed it so and won't let us forget it - but I've already done my Beatles girls, and it's time for the Kinks. (Who also have a 50th anniversary coming up this year, in case you didn't know.). And just to expand your horizons, no "Lola" and no "Victoria" - the Kinks had plenty. Of other girl songs without those two obvious hits. And n...
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The Song In My Head Today. Random musings and more about rock songs and artists. Friday, June 19, 2015. Flying Into London" /. Graham Parker and the Rumour. Selfish thing that I am, I've been hoarding to myself this incredible new album. I should have written about it weeks ago, I know. But then, one thing I've learned about being a Graham Parker fan: Give the songs time to marinate and you'll discover they're even better than you thought at first listen. I've Done Bad Things,". And, as I was dancing in ...
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The Song In My Head Today
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The Song In My Head Today. Random musings and more about rock songs and artists. Monday, June 09, 2008. All Through Throwing Good Love After Bad" / Guy Clark. Apparently Jerry Jeff Walker did the "big" recording of this song, a version that's all twanged up and countrified. I hope it made him a ton of money, I honestly do. But the version I know and love is Guy Clark's (you'll find it on his 1988 album Old Friends. But then, I don't listen to much country music - what do I know? Sure, cliched phrases dan...
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The Song In My Head Today. Random musings and more about rock songs and artists. Saturday, June 06, 2015. Wouldn't It Be Nice" /. If you haven't seen the Brian Wilson bio-pic. Love and Mercy,. I beg of you, PLEASE don't miss it. I just saw it last night, and it's sending me into a weekend of Beach Boys nostalgia. The magic of musical creation, with scene after scene of Brian in the studio creating. To create the illusion of summer.) The Beach Boys brand was a dependable sun-kissed commodity. But ...I lov...
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The Song In My Head Today: March 2015
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The Song In My Head Today. Random musings and more about rock songs and artists. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. On The Hill" /. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NICK LOWE! Ah, Nick Lowe . . . one of the great musical loves of my life. Much is made of Nick Lowe's comeback "trilogy" (they've actually been repackaged as a box set called The Brentford Trilogy),. Which includes The Impossible Bird. 1994) , Dig My Mood. 2004) But in my humble opinion, the comeback really began with 1989's Party of One,. Where he first began to.
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The Song In My Head Today: May 2015
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The Song In My Head Today. Random musings and more about rock songs and artists. Saturday, May 30, 2015. Sweetheart" / Maria Muldaur. Maybe not. But whenever this song dials up on my shuffle, I feel as if an old girlfriend has just phoned me for a good dish session. I came to this record well after it was released (on the 1974 album. Waitress in a Donut Shop. Also from 1974, I heard over and over again on the local radio station. Waitress in a Donut Shop. But, oh, how lovely that was. But oh, the yearnin...
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The Song In My Head Today. Random musings and more about rock songs and artists. Thursday, April 10, 2014. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" /. So who invented this National Sibling Day? I've never heard of this bogus holiday before - yet now suddenly, today, everybody and their brother are posting all over Facebook these happy smiling pictures of them with their sibs. And I'm one sib short and it makes me incredibly sad. So here's a song that I've lately found makes me feel better. Wednesday Morning 4 AM.
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The Song In My Head Today. Random musings and more about rock songs and artists. Sunday, June 13, 2010. Long Hot Summer Comin' On" / Black 47. What's on your list of "Summer's Here! Mine would have to include the Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City," the B-52s' "Rock Lobster," Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street," and Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime." And yes, okay, twist my arm: Bruce Springsteen's "Rosalita." But the more I listen to this new Black 47 album, Bankers and Gangsters. Ah th...
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The Song In My Head Today. Random musings and more about rock songs and artists. Sunday, June 28, 2015. Questions for the Angels" /. I've been simply haunted by this beautiful song for the past couple days. Paul Simon's gone through all the changes: folk music, folk rock, protest rock, world music. Thanks to my beloved older brother. I was an early Simon and Garfunkel fan, bought a guitar so I could play their songs, and clung to them through the 60s. But after 1986's. So Beautiful and So What. But the p...
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The Song In My Head Today. Random musings and more about rock songs and artists. Thursday, June 04, 2015. Witchi Tai To" / Brewer and Shipley. Cleaning out my brother's LP collection a year ago, the folk-rock duo Brewer and Shipley's. Was one of the few scarred 1960s LPs I made sure to squirrel away. (That and his autographed copy of Biff Rose's. The Thorn in Mrs. Rose's Side,. A record that I never expect to make a fortune with on eBay.) I can't say that anybody fought me for it, but that's cool. While ...
