And we’re back…and let’s get right into more song goodness from 2011: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – “We Almost Lost Detroit” (Link goes to Spotify) The band name is certainly goofy and this song is catchy fun, but look below the surface. This Detroit combo takes Gil Scott Heron’s warning about the risks of nuclear power [...]
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Jason’s Favorite Songs of 2011
Yes, it’s that time of year… As with most “best of lists”, the exclusions often become more interesting than the inclusions. Creating a comprehensive, definitive list of the best of anything is a fool’s errand. So I won’t try to sell anyone on this being even remotely exhaustive. This is simply a selection of songs I [...]
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Changes
So…three years later…many things have changed. Not sure where we might go with this site now and into the future, but there may be a revival in the works. Stay tuned…
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Thank you for holding…
Hello. Tuning back in, summer of 2008. Listening to a lot of everything including, but not limited to such entities as the new Coldplay record (not that there’s anything wrong with that). In some alternate universe Viva La Vida is U2‘s follow up record to The Joshua Tree. Would it be heresy to swap it [...]
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Disco Discoveries, Part One: Loose Joints, New View Points
I came of age when the Village People, Hooked on Classics and Rick Dees were the sound of disco – literally and figuratively the bell end of the genre and the decade itself. I jumped along to Dee’s “Disco Duck” on the family mini-tramp, while over at my grade school, Jimmy Carter was a punch [...]
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