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Dig if you will the picture. . .
It must be springtime, because I have been listening to Prince almost non-stop.Prince, no matter what his name was at the time, has been my most consistant love in music since I was 11 years old. I...
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You Can Feel It All Over
I love music.I mean, as much as I love sex, and anyone that knows me knows how much I love that ridiculous mix of humping, submission, domination and hilarity, I would still have to rank music just...
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Do You Realize?
Crossing Manhattan Bridge this morning on the D-train, listening to the Flaming Lips on my mp3 player, listening to the echoing words "the sun eclipsed behind the clouds", I admired the awkward...
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Listening. . . Remembering
I love waking up on a Saturday morning fixing some coffee, and just putting on albums. Album after album, running through my collection of CDs and LPs, sometimes going by artist, feeling like listening...
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Heavy Rotation, Discerning Ear
There are periods of time when we just groove on certain songs. Sometimes they are new songs off of new albums, or at least albums that are new to you, but other times they are old songs that have come...
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Still I Remain Tied to the Mast. . .
I am always looking for the language with which to explain what it is about particular music that I like. I understand that for many (most?) people music is a purely visceral experience – they either...
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I Only Want You To Have Some Fun. . .
1999. "Don't worry. I won't hurt you. I only want you to have some fun. . ."So opens an underrated classic, underscoring the sense of menace that is so often present in Prince's music, but that can be...
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Read Instructions Before Assembling
One of my favorite things in music are meta-instructions to the band in a song or descriptions of what the band is doing or about to do. . . Especially when it is on a studio recording and thus has to...
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Just a Castaway. . .
I started writing this month's essay on one of my favorite albums - Ben Folds Five's Whatever and Ever Amen, but the close-listening just confirmed what I had been considering for a while, which is...
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what was yours is everyone’s from now on
Welcome to the Future.I have been writing with some irregularity about music on my personal blog for some years now, and since I am trying to do it more regularly, I figured I would start a blog that...
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5 Songs I'm Feeling
Here are 5 songs I been really feeling lately:"Darling Nikki" (off of Purple Rain) is just such a great song. There is always a lot of emphasis on Prince's lyrics on this song, and rightly so. I mean,...
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Nothing But Blue Skies. . .
I love them sweet blues.I think the blues get a bum rap because they are associated only with sadness, with loss commonly reinforced by a repetitive 12-bar structure and the often equally repetitive...
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Me Upon My Pony On My Boat
Just one song today, though I may be doing a whole album by this artist in March as my "album of the month."Lyle Lovett is one of my favorite songwriters. It is about his quirky way of expressing the...
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Makes Me Weak and Knocks Me Off My Feet. .
"Good morn or evening, friends. . . Here's your friendly announcer. . ."I skipped March's "album of the month" - I was just too busy to finish my exploration of Lyle Lovett's I Love Everybody, and...
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Rubber Revolving Soul
I've been listening to a lot of the Beatles lately. I go through cycles and phases with different artists, but the Beatles are one of those groups that come back into heavy rotation every year or so -...
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5 Songs I'm Feeling
5 Songs I'm Feeling:"She's a Woman" - I know that I just (well, not just - my last music post was in late June) wrote a whole thing about two Beatles' albums, but having just gotten the re-mastered...
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Sounding Out! Catching Up. . .
I have not updated this blog in quite a while, but nor because I have stopped listening to music (or in some cases even writing about it).For example, I am now a regular contributor to Sounding Out!,...
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One Song I am Feeling - Untitled ("Shut Up") - R. Kelly
People are referring to this song as “Shut Up,” but as far as I know it is as-of-yet untitled.Regardless, I am loving it and listening to it frequently in the couple of weeks I have been aware of its...
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It's gonna be a long night, it's gonna be alright. . .
I heard “Nightshift” at the Price Chopper this afternoon. I don't think that I can name any other post-Lionel Ritchie Commodores songs. I like how this song sutures a tribute to these two recently...
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