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This is a local (read: San Diego area) band I would never have heard of if it hadn’t been for my 14yo son. He introduced me to them and I am HOOKED. I’m not posting lyrics today as I usually do, primarily because I’m already late. Plus, I think the instrumentals are more this band’s strength…which isn’t to say the…
I don’t remember how I discovered Nanci Griffith. I know I was in graduate school at The University of Chicago at the time and the proud owner of my first CD player, and that Griffith’s live album, One Fair Summer Evening, was one of the first CDs I purchased. But I can’t for the life of me recall who told…
Side note: I must be in the mood for music by artists who met tragic ends. This song is my absolute favorite by INXS, a band whose every album I bought as a teeneager and whose HAWT frontman, Michael Hutchence, was the Jim Morrison of my generation, right up to the premature death. (And did I mention he was HAWT?)…
What I Got by Sublime, copyright 1996 Early in the morning, risin’ to the street Light me up that cigarette and I strap shoes on my feet Got to find a reason, a reason things went wrong Got to find a reason why my money’s all gone I got a dalmation, and I can still get high I can play…
This week’s Music Monday comes to us courtesy of my favorite Canadian band, Barenaked Ladies. This one is off their 2006 album, Barenaked Ladies Are Me. I’ll let it speak for itself. Bull in China Shop by Ed Robertson and Steven Page, copyright 2005 I’m a kid in a candy store I’m a bull in a china shop I’m a…
A few years ago, I briefly did a feature I called “Lyric Thursday” where I’d post the lyrics to a song that I found interesting, inspirational, or just plain fun. I got lazy and stopped doing it, but lately, I’ve been listening to music much more (mainly because I’ve been spending so much more time in the car!), and I…