Here’s another playlist that started as a discussion in the Facebook music group that I manage. Last week’s “live tracks better than their studio cousins” list led to the suggestion of cover […]
Deep Cuts: Covers Better Than The Originals
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 […]
Deep Cuts: October 1990
Some amazing music came out in 1990. By the time those little trick-or-treaters knocked on our apartment door that night, I’d spent what little expendable income I had on some brilliant records […]
On Diffuser: Sinead O’Connor’s ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’ 25 Years Later
The perfect album at the perfect time. Has it really been 25 years since I drove up the PCH, pining away while listening to Sinead spill blood in 4/4 time? If I […]
211. Two Years Ago the Seed Was Planted
Sinead O’Connor barely caught the tail end of the ’80s. I don’t mean the actual decade so much as the new wave/post punk/college radio vibe that defined my decade. When her debut […]
Deep Cuts: The Best of Not Prince
One can sum up ’80s pop music with four artists: Bruce, Madonna, Michael, and Prince. In a way they were the last of the real superstars. The ’90s belonged to the anti-stars […]
Deep Cuts: Irish Rockers
So yeah, Ireland was an amazing adventure. My only regret is that I didn’t have time to meet my UK-based online friends while I was there. Maybe next time? And speaking of […]
Deep Cuts: Last Songs
Wow, last moments get a lot of action in music land. I have at least 150 “last” songs on my playlist, and that doesn’t include whatever’s in my vinyl stacks that remains […]
From the Stacks: Madhouse – 16
I’m pretty sure Prince didn’t sleep between 1978 and 1990. I’m not even sure that he sleeps now. Eighties radio was dominated by the unholy alliance of Michael, Bruce, Madonna, and the […]
Deep Cuts: The World’s Worst Mix Tape
The lost art of the mix tape. Yeah, we have playlists now and YouTube, but it isn’t the same. A mix tape said something, in my case usually, “I’m a very desperate […]
Why It Matters 