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  • Deep Cuts: Library Rock, J-R

    Are you all progged out from letters A through I?  Let’s see what J-R holds.   Here’s more music based on literary works:

  • Deep Cuts: Library Rock, A-I

    Sting was hardly the first or the last musician to find inspiration in a book; in fact, there are enough book/music crossovers out there that I think I can put together a complete A to Z of Library Rock.  You are entering aisle A through I.  Please be quiet – people are rocking.

  • 45. As Deep As Any Ocean, As Sweet As Any Harmony

    I don’t know why my mother thought that I would enjoy Summer Science Camp, but it meant two weeks living in the Clemson University dorms so I was game.  She dropped me off with one hundred bucks in my pocket, a Frisbee, the new Rolling Stone (cover story: A Kurt Loder interview with Pete Townshend),…

  • Why It Matters To Novelist Alanna Coca

    So you have your playlist now for your breakup.  That’s a good start, but some people need a bit more distraction.  Assuming that you’re not a guy with a sense of how to use the intergooglewebtubes for post-breakup distraction (come on, don’t make me say it), then there’s a good chance you’re a candidate for a…

  • Deep Cuts: The Kubler-Ross Breakup Playlist

    Music must be administered to heal a broken heart.  The exact dosage and length of each course varies per patient; however, there are a couple of uniform guidelines: Any non-gospel Al Green song fits any phase of treatment, and conversely also can be administered to reinforce the happiness of a functional relationship.  This is commonly…

  • 44. Won’t You Help Me Girl Just As Soon As You Can?

    “Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.” – Chuck Klosterman Breakups are always difficult.  It doesn’t matter if one is fifteen of fifty, whether you are the dumper or the dumpee, have been dreaming of this moment or dreading it.  Contrary to my baldness I am not Dr. Phil.  I don’t pretend to know anything about…

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  • Deep Cuts: The Greatest Bowie Song You’ve Never Heard

    I’ve moaned a few times about how the great artists of the Sixties and Seventies struggled during the Keyboard Eighties.  The great David Bowie is no exception, his worst crimes against humanity being Never Let Me Down and the hideous “Dancing In the Street” duet with Mick Jagger. My Bowie love runs deep — so deeply,…

  • 43. A One-Way Ticket, Only One Way To Go

    Foreigner is one of those tragic victims of the Keyboard Eighties.  Why so many Sixties and Seventies survivors felt the need to change what worked for them escapes me.  I blame some sort of mass hysteria.  It’s the only logical explanation for how “Superstition” and “I Just Called To Say I Love You” could emanate…

  • Welcome to the Blogroll (We’ve Got Fun and Games)

    Getting a little bored listening to some old fart blather on about music that happened back when turntables were steam powered?   Check out Rock Britain, a blog written out of Moscow about the UK music scene.  Good stuff! Go to Rock Britain