I will confess straight awaythat, while I liked them all right, and appreciated Colin Hay’s manicpresence on the music videostation, I didn’t buy a single album from Men At Work. Recently, when my brother decided hewould not likely ever play a recordagain, he bequeathed to me hiscollection of albums, and the debutand the sophomore effortContinue reading “#798: M is for Men At Work”
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#797: M is for McCartney, Paul, 2018
Until we get to W, where Wings are filed, this is the last McCartney album I have on vinyl. I realize now that, of the four Beatles, I own records or CD’s from only two of them, Georgeand Paul. I could see someday picking up Lennon’s Imagine or Double Fantasy, and I hearthat Ringo’s lastContinue reading “#797: M is for McCartney, Paul, 2018”
#796: M is for McCartney, Paul
He’s been a member of The Beatles, for Christ’s sake. Now that the band’s broken up, ending the world as we know it, what’s a famous English bass player and songwriter to do? Post Fab Four, Paul McCartney decidesto go solo, and records his eponymous debut, the first in a trilogy spread outover 50 years,Continue reading “#796: M is for McCartney, Paul”
#795: M is for Martha and the Muffins
I am not sure that I have everlistened to this album. I think, but I am not certain, that it wasa gift or a loaner from my friendCurtis. I texted him this morningto confirm. If he denies this, or doesn’t remember, then I do notknow how I came by this record, Danseparc by Canadian bandContinue reading “#795: M is for Martha and the Muffins”
#794: M is for The Mars Volta
I don’t know what to makeof these guys. I have three of their records, one of which I love, the other two of which I have very mixed feelings about. They seem to be a band thatdeliberately eschews accessibility, even down to their artier-than-thoucover art, which typically includeslittle or difficult to decipher identifyinginformation, and inContinue reading “#794: M is for The Mars Volta”
#793: M is for Manchester Orchestra
These guys are from Atlanta, Georgia, not even remotely from Manchester,and they are not an orchestra, but a rockband–albeit a sophisticated one, a bandI discovered because Andy Hull, their band leader and principle songwriter, once collaborated with The Dear Hunter. I only have this one E.P. , The Valley of Vision,even though I streamed theirContinue reading “#793: M is for Manchester Orchestra”
#792: M is for Magdalena Bay
Magdalena Bay might be the best 80’smale and female duo ever to form in the twenty-first century. More experimental than the Eurythmics and less rock oriented than Roxette, while Everything ButThe Girl maybe comes closest with their flirtation with jazz, Magdalena Bay bringstogether the other-worldly lead vocal from Mica Tenenbaum and the prog-leaning, synthesizer-heavy, andContinue reading “#792: M is for Magdalena Bay”
#791: M is for Madness
If I had any Madness records when I was 15 or 16 years old, I lost them in the great vinyl purgeof 1988, and I don’t remember which ones I had. I suspect at least one of them was Absolutely, and I come to that conclusionas I’m listening this morning to the 2013 Yep RockContinue reading “#791: M is for Madness”
We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Reflect on the Gift of Writing Away from Home.
You may well wonder: Michael Jarmer, Writer Guy, why haven’t you been working on new fiction? And the answer to that question, in short, is that, since October of 2025, I have been somewhat distracted by another project, the one in which I write a poem-like-thing almost daily in response to the self-imposed challenge ofContinue reading “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Reflect on the Gift of Writing Away from Home.”
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