“It’s always cold outside the Icehouse.”And “there’s no love inside the Icehouse.” It’s 1981 and I’m 17, totally immersed in what they call New Wave music, neverto return, or to return only nostalgically,to the hard rock of my pre-teen years.Certainly, I saw the video for the titletrack and theme song for this new bandon MTV,Continue reading “#734: I is for Icehouse”
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#733: A Memory Poem on April 2, 2026
Once, as a grade schooler, my father and my uncle took me out on a boat into the oceanfor deep sea fishing. Worriedthat I might get sick, my fathergave me a Dramamine. I remember crawling into theboat’s cabin and sleepingthrough the entire fishing trip. When I woke, long after the boat had come back to dock, I remember feeling peevedthat IContinue reading “#733: A Memory Poem on April 2, 2026”
#732: H is for Hozier
My first Hozier experience, like it was for most people,was “Take Me To Church,” an unlikely pop song that managed to take the Catholicchurch to task while soundinglike a spiritual, or gospel music. There were those smart, literarylyrics and that gigantic voice. It didn’t really matter to me that stylistically it was not musicin myContinue reading “#732: H is for Hozier”
#731: A Tanka on April 1st, 2026
Happy April 1, the first day of National Poetry Month, and for those who participate, National Poetry WRITING Month, or NaPoWriMo for short. I find myself in a little bit of a pickle. If you’ve been reading my almost daily work here on the blog, you will know that I am writing poem-like-things about eachContinue reading “#731: A Tanka on April 1st, 2026”
#730: H is for Howard, Brittany
Brittany Howard first came to my attention as the lead singer and guitar playerfor Alabama Shakes. An unbelievably greatplayer with a tremendous voice, she fronted a band that was doing some hybrid of blues, gospel, jazz,funk, all with the kind of sonic production you’d find on the most alternative of rock records. The two Brittany Howard solo albums pushContinue reading “#730: H is for Howard, Brittany”
#729: H is for Hot Chip
This album by Hot Chip has the distinction of having the absoluteworst graphic design of almost any record ever, certainly of any recordin my collection. The track list, the title,the lyrics, the name of the band, the credits, appear to all be jammed togetherand overlapping each other on the frontcover, black ink on a whiteContinue reading “#729: H is for Hot Chip”
#728: H is for Honorary Astronaut
Moving through my collection as I’m doing, it’s a joyous occasion when I come across artists I love from the end of the alphabet who arecollaborating with artists from an earlier letter of the alphabet (David Byrne and St. Vincent, Robyn Hitchcock and Andy Partridge from XTC) or when I arrive at a solo artistContinue reading “#728: H is for Honorary Astronaut”
#727: H is for Hitchcock, Robyn
The first album from Robyn Hitchcock I ever heard after I bought the CD in 1988 is also thelast Hitchcock record added to the collection on vinyl, the 2025 remixedand remastered Globe of Frogs. It remains today, I think, my favoriteRobyn Hitchcock record. “Tropical Flesh Mandala” had about the strangestlyric lines I had ever heardContinue reading “#727: H is for Hitchcock, Robyn”
#726: H is for Here Comes Everybody
Preface in Prose: I have written pretty extensively about the history and recording output of my own band Here Comes Everybody in previous blog entries (see links below). In a similar listening challenge/blog writing series begun many years ago now, I started the project of listening to my neglected CD collection one artist at aContinue reading “#726: H is for Here Comes Everybody”
#725: H is for Harrison, George and Dhani
PrologueNot the first timelistening to music by offspring of another famousmusician, (Liam and Elroy Finn),and not the first time writing about the music made by an offspring of oneof The Beatles, (Sean Lennon), this IS the first time listening to and writing aboutthe music of both The Beatle and their offspringin the same poem-like-thing. People of Earth, I giveContinue reading “#725: H is for Harrison, George and Dhani”
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