Classic Songs of My Youth Revisited #66
Jim Croce – Bad, Bad Leroy Brown As much as I love listening to music, as well as talking and writing about it, I am bereft when it comes to creating it. Junior high school music classes included playing the ukelele and recorder, I once owned a keyboard (officially purchased for my children, but, sure,…
Classic Songs of My Youth Revisited #65
Ferlin Husky (probably) – Wings Of A Dove The 1970s were boom years for promoting physical activity in Canada. A government study discovered that all that time spent eating poutine while watching “Hockey Night in Canada” on the CBC was putting us at risk of looking like crap as the world got to see us…
Classic Songs of My Youth Revisited #64
Murray Head or Carl Anderson – Superstar Growing up Roman Catholic, the Easter season was defined by food. Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of Lent and the time of deprivation (and, when I was younger, a good reason to get out of washing my face for a day or two), but it was immediately preceded…
Back on Team Bruno
Every year, my Spotify Wrapped lands and reminds me how out of touch I am with contemporary pop music. I’m not usually bothered by this – songs like “Just What I Needed” and “What I Like About You” and “In the Air Tonight” are great tunes, and it shouldn’t really matter that they are all…
Classic Songs of My Youth Revisited #63
Thurl Ravenscroft – You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch I can’t remember a time when I liked Christmas music, though surely as a child I couldn’t have felt the antipathy that I later developed towards the genre. Growing up in Cape Breton, with limited radio stations to choose from, it was never a good thing…
Classic Songs of My Youth Revisited #62
Cheap Trick – I Want You To Want Me Bands are always evolving, often due to personnel changes (there are at least three clearly distinct versions of Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green, Bob Welch and Nicks/Buckingham eras), a solid case can be made for two others, and there are arguably several more beyond those, and…
Classic Songs of My Youth Revisited #61
Benny Mardones – Into the Night In the glorious history of pop music, there may be no more unsettling collection of songs than those that are dedicated to exploring the wonders found by males aged 21 and (often much) older in the arms of females who are, umm, not yet 21. Like, a fair bit…
Quick Takes – July 30, 2024
I listen to a lot of new (to me) music, and sometimes I feel like telling people about things I like in case they might like them, too. That’s all this is. Every time I have four records I want to share, one of these is going up. Consider it my own mini version of…
Pazz and Jop 1974 #16 (tie)
Average White Band – Average White Band Isaac Newton – a pop idol of sorts among the smarter set when he was in his early 20s – famously tweeted that “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Newton was of course referring to how his work built on…
Classic Songs of My Youth Revisited #60
Barry Manilow – Copacabana (At the Copa) There may not be any more dangerous combination of inspiration and idiocy than that which can be found in the soul of a 14-year-old boy. Put two of them together, and the rise in these elements is exponential. I offer this as a warning note about the misogyny…
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