Bruce wasn’t the only chart topper of 1984 whose worst songs also happen to be his most popular. The Billboard 100 singles chart for that year represents a tremendous amount of talent […]
Deep Cuts: From the Class of 1984
Deep Cuts: Songs For Fresh Starts
Perhaps the single most powerful tool we each have in our tool boxes is that great big hammer we use to knock down our house of cards and start over again. (Note: […]
Deep Cuts: Summer 1984
Almost thirty years have passed since I met Chris the cool guy at the beach. That was a great summer for music, even if you weren’t a Purple Rain fan. Born In the […]
Deep Cuts: Beach Songs
Beach songs. On one hand you’ve got your Beach Boys and Jan and Dean; on the other you have your Dick Dale, Ventures, and Surfaris. And then there’s Shag music — oldies […]
Deep Cuts: Your Independence Day Playlist
The Fourth of July is a big deal in the United States. It was on this very day back in 1776 when the Beatles first came to America, and we like to […]
Deep Cuts: 8:22 Songs
The other day I sorted my iTunes by time just for giggles. It’s an interesting way to look at one’s music collection — not as random as shuffle, not as ordered as […]
Deep Cuts: Ken Nordine’s Colors
Michael Stipe made his name by mumbling. R.E.M.’s early albums weren’t about the words but the tone, the feel. But a couple of generations earlier words were everything. People enjoyed a past […]
Deep Cuts: The E Street Shuffle
True record collectors and music geeks don’t stop at their favorite artists. The official catalog of even well established artists isn’t particularly hard to compile. Take Springsteen, for example — The Boss […]
Deep Cuts: The Rock Week
My mother was legendary for knowing a song about anything. The woman was a musical encyclopedia. “Hey, Larry has cancer.” “Ohhhhhh cancer cancer / not for dancers….” Now I’m that guy. My […]
Deep Cuts: Best Of Benefit Albums
Benefit gigs are great for a few reasons: they raise lots of money, and hopefully a good chunk of that flows to the designated charity; they bring together disparate artists that may […]
