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#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”

#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”

#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”

#547: The Art of the Lie

The Art of the Lie I am in full agreementthat John Grant is no namefor a rock star, and yet, he is, nevertheless, a rock star to me,and his most recent album, The Art of the Lie,has been in consistent, heavyrotation. I listened to it todayin the car as I drove to Pure LifeClinic forContinue reading “#547: The Art of the Lie”

#350: The Garden of Earthly Deep Purple

Today’s NaPoWriMo suggestion was to write a persona poem in the point of view of a character from Bosch’s famous triptych “Garden of Earthly Delights.” A great prompt idea, I think, one that I would have liked to write from. But even after I watched and listened to the interactive tour of this crazy thingContinue reading “#350: The Garden of Earthly Deep Purple”