There are two kinds of Christmas music people: Those who want to hear the exact same songs sung the same way by the same people and those who don’t. There’s a third […]
Deep Cuts: 8 Christmas Songs You Haven’t Heard 8 Million Times
Deep Cuts: Your Obligatory Christmas Playlist, Volume 6
My mother loved everything about Christmas, and that included the music. I doubt she’d have much use for my playlists, though. Ma was more of a holiday traditionalist. Bust out the Bing […]
From the Stacks: The Shaggs – Philosophy of the World
Here we have RCA’s 1999 CD reprint of The Shaggs’ Philosophy of the World. Why not feature the original 1969 album? Because it’s pricey, and I don’t have a copy in my […]
Deep Cuts: Soda Songs
“Wow, that’s a lot of Coke” turned out to be an ad for Little Caesar’s Pizza. In the finished commercial a nerdy dude holding a large tub of soda sits down and […]
Deep Cuts: Drive-In Songs
Remarkably few songs have been written about drive-in restaurants. Go figure — I’d think somebody could knock one out while waiting for a chili cheese-a-plenty. But they haven’t, and I’m hellbent on […]
Deep Cuts: I Want Songs
Teenage James is so negative, you must be thinking by now. Everything is “I didn’t want this and I didn’t want that. Did the kid ever talk about what he wanted?” That’s a […]
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