Music

A collection of 252 posts

Old Music Friday

Old Music Friday: 10/17/85

Looking back at the songs that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 this week in 1985

Blindspotting

Blindspotting: The Upsetters, "Super Ape"

Fixing musical blind spots, one album at a time

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 9/26/25

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the New Music railing, holding the Friday together

The One After the One-Hit Wonder

The One After the One-Hit Wonder, Part 7

Top 40 success can be so fleeting. Just ask these artists

Song Recommendations

Song Recommendations: 9/24/25

I bring you food for your ears

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 9/19/25

New Music is the longest distance between two Fridays

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 9/5/25

There is some New Music in this Friday, and it’s worth fighting for

Major Letdowns

Major Letdowns: Eddie Money, "Right Here"

Eddie Money managed a couple of comebacks in the '80s. Then the '90s came along

Blindspotting

Blindspotting: Elvis Presley, "From Elvis in Memphis"

He had to leave town for a little while

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 8/29/25

It's a new kind of New Music Friday

Song Recommendations

Song Recommendations: 8/28/25

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

Blindspotting

Blindspotting: Joanna Newsom, "Ys"

I may need to lay a cold compress upon the mess I'm in

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 8/8/25

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in New Music Friday, must be intolerably stupid

Major Letdowns

Major Letdowns: Captain & Tennille, "Keeping Our Love Warm"

Meeting Daryl Dragon's dead-eyed stare

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Bootleg City

Bootleg City: Billy Joel in St. Paul, 1982

Hicksville's finest

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New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 8/1/25

All the world will be your New Music, O Prince with a Thousand Fridays

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Old Music Friday

Old Music Friday: 7/18/85

Looking back at the singles that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 this week in 1985

Music

American Tunes

This is our country. These are our songs

Music

What Was the First "No-Filler" Rock Album?

A question for you

Cultural Consumption

The Default Position

Well, hello there

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Bootleg City

Bootleg City: Sinéad O'Connor in 1990

We do not want what we have not got, unless we have not got this concert recording

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 6/13/25

I am not afraid of New Music, for I am learning how to sail my Friday

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Earmageddon

Earmageddon: Lou Reed, "Metal Machine Music"

Dextrorotory components synthesis of sympathomimetic musics

Blindspotting

Blindspotting: Gang of Four, "Entertainment!"

At home, he's a tourist

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 5/30/25

Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into New Music Friday