It’s been decades since I participatedin any kind of record club situation. When I was young and poor it was the easiest and cheapest way to accumulate a CD collection, and whenI was a kid, my dad allowed me to orderrecords from his subscription at Columbia House. When I became an adult, I put awayContinue reading “#692: F is for Feist”
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#691: F is for Father John Misty (18, 22, 24)
Only one year after Pure Comedy, Father John Misty releases God’s Favorite Customer. A significantly more rocking affair, albeit mid-tempo to slow; it crushes harder, it’s lyrically more personal, confessional,the melodic hooks are stronger, it’s easierand more fun to sing along to these songs,there’s more humor here, but as usual,it’s pretty dark in there: “You’reContinue reading “#691: F is for Father John Misty (18, 22, 24)”
#690: F is for Father John Misty (12, 15, 17)
This guy, Joshua Tillman, appears to havehad his big break in rock music as the drummerfor Fleet Foxes. The breakout album he playedon happens to be in my collection, the 2011Helplessness Blues. The drummer’s identity didn’t register with me at the time, nor should it have, as I wouldn’t hear a song byhis adopted monikerContinue reading “#690: F is for Father John Misty (12, 15, 17)”
#689: F is for Fagen, Donald
The Nightfly, circa 1983, was hands down one of the sonically best sounding albums I had ever heard. And of course, there were so manygreat singles from this, his debut solo album, and probably by a long shot his most successful, and I had heard them all on the radio. But it would be severalContinue reading “#689: F is for Fagen, Donald”
#685: E is for Electric Light Orchestra
As a kid, I used to hang outwith my cousins Chris and Nick. In my musical autobiography, I have my cousins to thank for introducing me to two artiststhat would be pivotal in my development as a music fan and a music maker. The first time I ever heard an Elton Johnalbum all the wayContinue reading “#685: E is for Electric Light Orchestra”
We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Announce that Michael Jarmer Has Posted to the Blog Site 1000 Times Since 2011.
1000 blog entries ago, on February 11, 2011, I wrote the following under the title “Inaugural Blog.” Here it goes, for better or worse. The impulse strikes and I’ve set up a blog. Whatever for? I’m a writer, first of all, and I suspect that I might have a few things to say about stuffContinue reading “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Announce that Michael Jarmer Has Posted to the Blog Site 1000 Times Since 2011.”
#680: E is for Eels (18, 20, 22, 24)
Mark Oliver Everett’s father was a famous quantum mechanic, the scientistwho first posited the theory of the multiverse, of simultaneous alternative realities. There’s a documentary called Parallel Universe, Parallel Lives about E’s dadfrom E’s perspective, including interviewsby an assortment of science luminarieswho say that this guy’s theories were as significant if not more-so than Einstein’s.AsContinue reading “#680: E is for Eels (18, 20, 22, 24)”
#674: D is for The Doors
For such a humorless lot, they sure were funny, those Doors: Let’s, for example, be the first band in rock to feature an organ.Let’s write the most iconic organriff, as iconic perhaps as the guitarriff in “You Really Got Me” or “Satisfaction,” and we’ll featurethat organ riff in our most successful hit song from ourContinue reading “#674: D is for The Doors”
We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program So That Michael Can Write About His Own Band
I have a show tonight with Here Comes Everybody, a band my wife and I formed together 40 years ago. This show is remarkable or significant for a number of reasons. It’s a record release party, as we celebrate and release on vinyl for the first time a 20th anniversary edition of our album Submarines.Continue reading “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program So That Michael Can Write About His Own Band”
#669: D is for Descartes A Kant
A group from Mexico Citytakes on a band namealluding to a French philosopherand a German philosopher, respectively, and sings exclusivelyin English, while their stage banter, as far as I can tell, is delivered exclusively in Spanish. I can’t remember how I stumbled uponthis band, although it’s only been a few years; perhaps I saw aContinue reading “#669: D is for Descartes A Kant”
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