Archive for the 'Vinyl' Category
The Granny Awards
February 11th, 2008Out of curiosity (okay, I wanted to see if Burt Bacharach and Doris Day might appear to pick up their Lifetime Achievement awards), I tuned into the Grammy Awards last night. Boy, what a strange show. Just hand me some Geritol ’cause I feel so elderly now! It’s bad enough that I’ve never heard of […]
The Sound of Love
February 4th, 2008Browsing the newly opened online archive of The Atlantic magazine allowed me to re-read The Man from Heaven, an astute appreciation of Burt Bacharach written by Francis Davis in 1997. It’s an excellent piece, coming along just as I’m adding Bacharach’s “South American Getaway” (from the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid soundtrack) to an […]
Tarkosaurus Retch
January 31st, 2008The A.V. Club’s selection of 18 Particularly Ridiculous Prog-rock Album Covers illustrates why the early ’70s might be the most aesthetically unappealing period in history ever. I’m aware that some of the albums they spotlighted come later on, but you get the gist.
Hitsville U.S.A.
January 15th, 2008We need our little and not so little indulgences every once in a while, right? I did a little post-Christmas splurge and bought The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 6, a box set containing every A- and B-side of every 45 single Motown released in 1966. It’s … amazing. This is part of the ongoing effort […]
My Bullet’s in the Gun
January 10th, 2008What’s rocking my morning? Check music critic Elisabeth Vincentelli’s great post on the songs that nearly made her Best of 2007 lists. Although all are good, my fave is “My Secret Lover” by a Danish outfit called Private. It’s a wonderfully synthetic, ’80s-tastic retro funk jam that would likely have the scissors of Project Runway’s […]
My Hit Parade 2007
December 30th, 2007It seems like every year, increasingly, I think I’m starting to turn into an old fogey when it comes to new music. I’m inclined to hear less and less new stuff on the radio, and most of my CD purchases have been compilations of older artists. For example, after I splurged on an Australian comp […]
A Merry Mix
December 12th, 2007Joyful tidings — the Scrubbles.net Holidays 2007 Collection is ready for your enjoyment! To be honest, I’m not too big on Christmas music. I hate all those songs that you hear every year redone over and over again. No matter who does it, “The Little Drummer Boy” is a big bore and if I have […]
Putting the ‘Ho’ in Ho, Ho, Ho
December 7th, 2007Things I worked on this week:
Searched in vain for healthy foodie gifts for my clients, only to settle on overpriced cookies.
Spent two hours at Borders looking for gift ideas and wound up buying a single cookbook from the bargain shelves. Most of my relatives are not “book” people, unfortunately.
Put in a printing order for holiday […]
Hamster Love
November 6th, 2007Is it any wonder that one of my childhood rituals was listening to Dr. Demento every Sunday night on Phoenix’s long-running rock station, KUPD? Among my favorite tunes from back then was “Hamster Love”, a parody of the Captain & Tennille’s mushy hit “Muskrat Love” extolling the deliciousness of rodents. You can listen to it […]
Last Eight Downloads for the Month
October 30th, 2007I had a devil of a time with eMusic. Their basic plan furnishes customers with 30 downloads a month, and I used up 22 of them this month on a Jackie Wilson compilation. Since most albums have 10-20 tracks, what to do with the remaining eight? Browsing eMusic for individual songs is an interesting experience. […]
Good Grief!
October 15th, 2007It looks like Ford at Basic Hip Digital Oddio will be shutting down much of his site by the end of the year. Better enjoy stuff like Vertigo: Then and Now before they’re gone forever.
Also: Bill Watterson reviews the new Charles M. Schulz bio for The Wall Street Journal (thanks, Eric!). I can’t wait to […]
Two VERY Lovely Girls
September 24th, 2007Holy pork chops and applesauce! Apparently there was a scorching internet rumor going around last week that, in her forthcoming memoir, Maureen McCormick revealed that she had a brief lesbian tryst with her Brady Bunch co-star Eve Plumb during the show’s production. The story (of a lovely lady) was picked up by such esteemed outlets […]
It Made Me Chuckle
September 10th, 2007The Onion: Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8.
Dolly Dolly Dolly
August 29th, 2007What with three manga book cover designs due on the same day, the workload ran so heavy today that I’ll likely be dreaming of saucer-eyed warrior women wearing thigh high leather boots tonight. One thing that made the day go by a little faster was listening to Andrew Dupuy’s fun audio essay on Dolly Parton’s […]
Indestructibles 4: Revenge of the Girls
August 25th, 2007Last year I wrote about the “indestructibles”, my arbitrarily-chosen word for songs that hold up well to multiple interpretations by different artists, and now’s a good time to revisit that idea. Looking through my iTunes collection, I’ve listed the songs recorded by at least three different performers below (the ones that weren’t covered in the […]
