Prologue in Prose: This is the first time during this particular endeavor (it won’t likely be the last) when I am able to listen for the first time to and write about a record I have recently purchased. I bought this triple live record by the supergroup BEAT a few weeks ago and I abstainedContinue reading “#607: B is for Beat”
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#606: B is for Beach House
My music listeninghas become so obsessivethat one night I dreamabout the Beach House album. In the dream, the albumbecame like a movie I was watching. In fact, there was no music, just people doing things, saying things, none of which I can remember now, none of which had any connection to the band or the record, save thatthe image of theContinue reading “#606: B is for Beach House”
#605: B is for The Babys
The Babysopen with strings. Soften the impactbefore the giant guitar riffs begin. Appropriately, the lyrics at least in the first few songscontain a voluminoususe of the word “baby.” But these guys rockedpretty hard, despitehow cute they were, and you know, thatJohn Waite characterwould go on to havea long, successful careerbecause he could reallysing the shitContinue reading “#605: B is for The Babys”
#604: A is for Average White Band
A quick note from yours truly to begin. It took me 11 days to listen to 29 record albums by 14 artists and to write a poem-like thing for each songwriter or band filed under the letter A in my collection. There were, in that 29, a couple of double albums, but I have onlyContinue reading “#604: A is for Average White Band”
#603: A is for Aurora
It’s Halloweenand next up in this October listeningritual is oneof the least frighteningfamous human beingson the planet.But she is kind of other-worldly, sprite-like, impish, adorable, and monstrously talented. Watching her interviewsand clips of her stage banterhas become a favorite pastime. She’s funny, personable, almost awkwardly honest, a kind of personality that is winning, irresistible.It happens,Continue reading “#603: A is for Aurora”
#602: A is for Asia
Get a bunch of superstarprog-rockers togetherin the early 80’s and watch them writehit pop songs. “The heatof the moment showedin your eyes” is objectively a dumb lyric. Does thischorus speed up? I think I inherited this album from my brother’s discardedrecord collection, but it’s got a price tag on it: 95 cents,and I can’t imagineContinue reading “#602: A is for Asia”
#601: A is for Arctic Monkeys
“Can we please be absolutely sure that there’s a mirrorball for me?” I hadn’t heard these guysin nearly a decade and one dayin 2022 their new album came across the radar, as they say, a new album called The Car,and I streamed it out of purecuriosity. This was not your mama’s Arctic Monkeys, but IContinue reading “#601: A is for Arctic Monkeys”
#600: A is for The Appleseed Collective
It’s 2014, my band Here Comes Everybodyhas booked an album release party at a ballroom downtown, the name of whichI can no longer remember. It’s a big deal, our first ever release on vinyl, which at this time, has made a kind of hot wax comeback. We are excited beyond imagination to bring our keyboardContinue reading “#600: A is for The Appleseed Collective”
#599: A is for Apple, Fiona
2012 She’s released five albumsin 24 years. I have them allin my collection, but only the last two on vinyl, the twomost challenging, difficultFiona albums in her catalog. Last night, in an hour or twoof sleeplessness, I knew shewas coming up in the alphabet,and I thought of that, as one does during an episode ofContinue reading “#599: A is for Apple, Fiona”
#598: A is for Angel City
I High school kids these dayshave what they call “lip sync”competitions, wherein two dozen students or more choreograph complex dancenumbers while a smaller group of young people pretend to sing the vocalalong with the elaborate moves. When I was a kid, a “lip sync”was called an “Air Band,” and consisted of smaller numbers of studentspretendingContinue reading “#598: A is for Angel City”
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