#806: M is for The Monkees

No music is more indelibly etchedin memory from my childhood than the music from Elton John, The Beatles, and The Monkees. For the first of theseI have my cousins to thank, and my dad (for allowing me to order records fromhis Columbia House club) but for my loveof The Beatles and The Monkees, I thankmyContinue reading “#806: M is for The Monkees”

#663: D is for The Dear Hunter (Part the Second)

It took three daysto get through The Acts,five albums, eleven discs. And now I approachMigrant, a collection of prog-pop-rockso delicious, so melodic, so powerful, as to makeit one of my favoritealbums of the last decade. Released initially in 2013, interrupting The Acts in progress, and then remixedand resequenced and expanded for it’s 10thanniversary in 2023,Continue reading “#663: D is for The Dear Hunter (Part the Second)”

#626: B is for Blood, Sweat & Tears

It’s 1968. Hey, I know, let’sopen up a rock recordwith Eric Satie and follow that with somewild, short, orchestral Satie variation thing, and then we’ll play the funk rock real hard with horns and organs and lyrics about gettingyourself togetherand then we’ll swingharder than any jazzband and the drummerwill just kind of go crazythrough theContinue reading “#626: B is for Blood, Sweat & Tears”