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Music Monday: Rock And Roll High School (soundtrack) (The Ramones Part 4)
It took me long enough to pick up the soundtrack to Rock And Roll High School on CD. I had the cassette which has since been lost (most likely stolen by a roommate years ago) and still have a copy of...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Opening Day
It’s the first day of baseball season. Well, there were a couple of games yesterday but they don’t count because today is the opening day of my Seattle Mariners. Everybody seems to know “Centerfield”...
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Music Monday: The Replacements & Young Fresh Fellows.
Thursday night was one of my dream concerts. The Young Fresh Fellows opening up for The Replacements. A near perfect pairing, at least idealy. Both bands are capable to doing great songs and then...
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Music Monday: Top 10 Albums To Introduce Your Kids To
I am stealing this idea from another blog. The idea, at least according to the title, is “Top 10 Albums To Introduce Your Kids To” – and looking at that list I thought it was lacking. Heck, all the...
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Music Monday: Top 10 Influential Albums
Last week I presented a list of 10 albums that are great for intruducing younger listeners to rock and roll, a sort of gateway to broader musical horizons. Now I present a list of the greatest albums...
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Three Random Things I Am Looking Forward To
1. I am looking forward to Mad Max: Fury Road. I mean, really looking forward to it. Don’t get me wrong, I want to see Avengers: Age Of Ultron, but this Mad Max film has me excited. Like, edge of my...
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Music Monday: Tim Still Needed
There is one Replacements album I still need to get. I can’t find it anywhere as it is apparently out of print to the point that even Amazon and other online retailers do not have it. Finding it used...
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Music Monday: The Magic Whip (Blur Part 1)
The opening riff “Lonesome Street” is like a declaration. First the sirens, then the guitar blast hits you and suddenly it is 1994 again. Well, not exactly, but this is as close to a statement that we...
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Music Monday: Guilty Pleasures
I was thinking about this a while ago. I am not necessarily ashamed of any of the music in my collection, but I can feel a bit sheepish. I know the difference between “good” music and “enjoyable” and...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Something To Believe In (Ramones Part 5)
While this isn’t one of the best Ramones songs, it is arguably their best video. Released as a single in 1986 the video, and to a lesser extent the song itself, pokes fun at the plethora of various...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Vacation
We are away on vacation. While it’s not quite the same sentiment, here are The Go-Gos singing about it.
View ArticleMusic Monday: The Damned (Part 3)
I love The Damned. I mentioned that before though. I could go on about how they were the first punk band in England to have a record deal, release a single or an album, but chances are if you are...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Queen
I was always aware of Queen, I imagine, in the background of my life, but it was 1980’s “Another One Bites The Dust” that brought the band to the forefront of my attention. Another One Bites the Dust...
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Music Monday: Taylor Swift
Over the years her songs would come on the radio or her videos would cross my view and I found them amusing and enjoyable enough. I never dismissed them, but I also didn’t give them much weight. When...
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Music Monday: Echo & The Bunnymen
1984’s Ocean Rain was one of the first “alternative” albums that I purchased. This was back in 1986 when I was really discovering music that wasn’t on mainstream radio. The album set a sonic atmosphere...
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Music Monday: Taylor Swift (Part 2 – Live)
Saturday we came home from vacation and began unpacking. Part of reason we came back was to get ready for myself and August to leave for Boy Scout camp the next morning, but the primary reason for...
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Music Monday: Frozen (Part 2)
Last week at Boy Scout camp I missed the staff’s production of Frozen while I was back home for a couple of days. August apparently loved it, as it was a very lose adaptation that freely borrowed from...
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PAX 2015 Recap (In Shirts)
This year’s Penny Arcade Expo was different for me, as I wasn’t on the media list. I purchased tickets when they went on sale and was able to spend more time going to the show with my kids rather than...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Public Enemy
I met Chuck D once. I think it was 2002 at the Consumer Electronics Show. I was attending as press, covering whatever there was for video games at the time. He was there to talk about online music...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Green Day
A tough parenting decision once involved Green Day. I will get to that in a moment. Like so many others, I was introduced to Green Day through their single “Longview” and I kind of liked it, especially...
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