“Cruel To Be Kind” is likely the greatest pop song of the newwave era that I, inexplicably, neveracquired. Outside of seeing the video for that very first hit of his on MTVmore times than it is possible to count, I never bought a Nick Lowe album. I knew who he was. I knew he wasContinue reading “#789: L is for Lowe, Nick”
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#788: L is for Lotic
My son is eleven, maybe twelve years old. It’s 2016 or 17 and for ChristmasI buy him a starter turntable. From his earliest years, surrounded by music, he grows to love it, so I thinkhe might also, like his Dad, grow into a vinyl enthusiast. One day I take him to my favorite record storeContinue reading “#788: L is for Lotic”
#787: L is for The Lemon Twigs
When brothers Brian and Michael D’Addariofirst started making records, they were 19and 17 years old, respectively. Today, neitherof them are out of their twenties, and in theintervening decade, they’ve released six fulllength albums and one e.p. of music as The Lemon Twigs, one cover album of songs written by their dad, and Brian has releasedContinue reading “#787: L is for The Lemon Twigs”
#786: An American Sonnet after the Billie Eilish Concert Film
For a 1:40 showing on a Monday, I sat alone, the only person insidethe neighborhood multiplex, theater #8, to watch the Billie Eilish concert film.No 3D available here, I watched it binocularly, with my own glasses.Even without stereoscopy, I was still movedby the spectacle, the music, the magnitudeof it all, the tears streaming down faces.ThousandsContinue reading “#786: An American Sonnet after the Billie Eilish Concert Film”
#785: L is for The Last Dinner Party
In another alphabetical mishap, bypassing the newer records insidethe browser cubes, I momentarilyforgot about this top-notch all-female English chamber pop rockgroup called The Last Dinner Party, a band so good I almost don’t like them, not because I’m jealous, not because I believe for a secondthe accusation that they’re industryplants (whatever the hell that means),Continue reading “#785: L is for The Last Dinner Party”
#783: L is for Laufey
Lo eh veh. Or Lo eu veh. Or LOI-vay. Not Laffey, please, as many of us likelymispronounced her name once we became aware of this young Icelandicsensation bringing what sounded likestandard vocal jazz to the world of pop. Right next door to k.d. lang in the stacks, a comparison seems appropriate. Whilethe quality of theirContinue reading “#783: L is for Laufey”
#782: L is for lang, k.d.
I found myself in the middle of an MFA creative writing programlistening obsessively to k.d. lang, in particular these three albums, Ingénue, All You Can Eat, and Drag. Even though the first of these threewas released a couple of years earlier, I discovered her in 1995. How I came across this music, I do notContinue reading “#782: L is for lang, k.d.”
#781: K is for The Knack
As popular as The Knack was, as big of a splash as they made with their debutalbum, my understanding is that they, relatively soon after their meteoric rise to rock stardom, got some extreme push-back to lyrics that were pretty much blatantly pedo adjacent. What am I saying? The fact that “My Sharona” was writtenContinue reading “#781: K is for The Knack”
#779: K is for Klark Kent
It’s alphabetized under Klark and not Kentbecause this is more of a project namethan it is the name of an artist. It is the pseudonym, the stage name, the appellation, the moniker, the sobriquet, used on the first solo album by the most famous drummer of the most famous band of the 80’s, one ofContinue reading “#779: K is for Klark Kent”
#778: K is for Kiss
I don’t know how I feel about this. There’s really only one album by Kissthat I think I would like to have on vinyl, and it’s not one in the bunch of four that I have here. Somewhere along the lineI stumbled or my wife stumbled upon these used editions of the first three KissalbumsContinue reading “#778: K is for Kiss”
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