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From The Stacks: XTC, “Making Plans For Nigel” (Promo Single)

When I was a kid, there were a few things in the record store I was sure were going to make me rich someday.
Deep Cuts: Sick Songs To Be Sick By

Have I ever enjoyed being sick? Well, that depends. Are you asking me about now or when I was a kid and a 99 degree temperature might mean a day away from school?
Illness, Death, Legacy, and Heroes

Senator John McCain is ill. That is a sad state of affairs for Senator John McCain and his family.
From The Stacks: Leroy Pullins, ‘Funny Bones & Hearts’

Leroy Pullins is all kinds of talent. It says so right there on the back cover.
Deep Cuts: Songs For Heavy Machinery

Some kids are obsessed with heavy machinery: bulldozers, tractors, cranes, dump trucks–they just can’t get enough of them.
The Bulldozer

It wasn’t a house yet, just a bare skeleton waiting for someone to make it into one.
From the Stacks: The Vibrators, ‘Pure Mania’ (White Label Promo)

June 1977: American DJs are spinning Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke,” KC & the Sunshine Band’s “I’m Your Boogie Man,” and Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.” Leo Sayer, Glen Campbell, and David “Hutch from Starsky and Hutch” Soul are in the rotation, too.
Deep Cuts: Prison Songs

Can you imagine going to prison for something you didn’t do?
ALT-K, pt. 2

Clemmons brings me a computer. While I recuperate over the next few days I read about Judge William Helton, about me.
From The Stacks: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, ‘Modern Lovers 88’

You can tell a bit about a person’s relationship to pop culture by their Jonathan Richman frame of reference.