Listed at No. 6 on RIAA’s Songs of the (20th) Century list, this ditty is interesting in that it perfectly suited it’s time, representing the war years of the early forties as no other song can, while prefiguring the uptempo jump blues of the fifties and containing a hint of the teasing sensuality of the …
Month: April 2012
Vikram Bhatt’s upcoming thriller Dangerous Ishhq sports the tag line, “Searching for love, through many lives…” For more info, go here.
I learned of this band when I lived in Seattle and was selling off some compact discs cheaply to a young woman whom was going to open a used cd shop. She told me to watch for the Detroit Cobras in 2001. – James Bresnahan
“Feeling of Gaze” – The Twilight Singers. Rousing, tender, sexy and blue. Bless the wounded healer that is Greg Dulli. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Here’s an entry for Feeling of Gaze at Whosampled.com. And here’s a live version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvvkrMWcno
Nine years ago, I gave a copy of The Message bible to my in-laws. I don’t know if they liked it. When we’re visiting, I will usually read a few passages out of it. Then eight years after I gave it to them, the same copy I gave them became a prop in this video …
I watched this video twice and as far as I can tell it’s about disaffected youth. When I can understand the words, it sounds like Jack White is singing about kids home alone without parental supervision getting into trouble because there’s little else for them to do. However, I don’t see the real point of …
“The Magic” – Joan As Police Woman. Punk + RnB, slippery and sweet, twisting + turning till it feels just right. Illuminates. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Dracula Moon” – Joan Osborne. Bite down on it! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
This is the latest from Porter Harp. It was produced by Built to Spill recordist, Phil Ek, and and Porter himself says of this, “It is best viewed full screen and with a glassy stare…” Porter Harp | Papa Said from Will Alan on Vimeo.
Thanks to Cory Davis: BONE PUGZ from Bone Pugz on Vimeo.
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This is a song I heard last year. Some day it will be popular in either Latvia or Estonia. Do you get them confused too? If you were blindfolded and unknowingly asported to either country and not told into which one you’d been placed, how would you figure out where you were once the blindfold …
The Jam’s brief, but incredibly influential career was not entirely spent recording fiery, anti-establishment fusillades. Tracks such as “Ghosts,” “English Rose” and the classic “That’s Entertainment” proved the band could produce more “pop” and less “power” — and still stir emotions some three decades later. My favorite among such songs is “Liza Radley,” the b-side …
Here is one of the best songs you’ve likely never heard, despite the fame of those involved: I have long been a huge Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes fan and when this album came out in 1991 I thought it would finally be the vehicle to take SSJ to the top nationally, instead of …
“She’s Long Gone” – The Black Keys. Dirty, gritty, and true, like a freight train running off the tracks. You cant look away. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
“Rope On Fire” – Morphine. No other band in history has come close to their smoldering baritone ferocity; this song is perfect. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUAQJxKfSfw
The answer to the riddle of “why didn’t Britain’s most popular band make much of a dent here in the States?” has been debated forever. The truth is, there are a number of reasons why The Jam wasn’t huge here, why even the most savvy of radio listeners barely heard from them until all their …
“Nightbirds”- Ryan Adams. Swim around inside these simple piano chords and shimmering strings. Indigo-blue and haunting. – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days Here’s the tune on Rhapsody. And here’s a live version:
I probably wasn’t the only suburban American youth who wished, at age 16 in 1984, that he was a handful of years older — and living in England. Los Angeles came in second on the desired locales list, but even at that tender age, my gut told me that the enormity, social disconnect and relative …
I love this. Cesária Évora is great and sorely missed. I wonder if there is a softer, more delcious language anywhere than Portuguese. I can always just about but never really quite understand it. – Kevin Hendrickson
Robbie Robertson must’ve been feeling generous on this day, because he gave Richard Manuel a co-songwriting credit on this beautiful haunting song. – Randy Rendfeld http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKnPYcsf508
Stevie Nicks wrote “Silver Springs” for the Rumours album, but it was bumped in favor of a shorter song, an omission forming one of the few, perhaps the only, Fleetwood Mac mistake in the creation of that wildly successful album. Richard Dashut, Rumours’s engineer and co-producer, has described the song as, “The best song that …