There are entirely too many versions of Jingle Bell Rock out there, but this one is my all-time favorite. I bar no holds when I proudly proclaim my total enjoyment of all things Hall & Oates — Abandoned Luncheonette is one of those great 70s albums that doesn’t get enough acknowledgment — and the bouncy…
Click here for my Review of the 2013 Tough Mudder Miami event. Well, I’ve done it. I’ve registered for the Tough Mudder event coming next March, down in Homestead. Ten to twelves miles of running, obstacles, pain, mud, freezing water, pain, live electrical wires, monkey bars, pain, nets, ropes, cannibalism, flaying, fingernail removal, and other…
Strictly speaking, “Bears” — a 1984 prog/rock/metal single from Zebra — is not a holiday song, per se and such as. However, it is entirely evocative of that whole winter holiday feel, complete with xylophone chimes, strings, choirs, etc… plus it’s about freakin’ hibernating BEARS man! By a band called Zebra! Yeah I don’t know…
I know many of you are shocked…SHOCKED!!!…that I would include a Kinks song in a list of my favorite musical anything. If I were rattling down my list of Top Swahili Yodeling Rodeo Songs, I’m fairly certain I’d find a way to squeeze Ray Davies & Co. in there somehow. Mea maxima culpa. Still though,…
OK let’s get silly for a moment here and discuss Hebraic Yuletide Alienation. Or not. This one is a seasonal favorite for me, only because I love belting it out at karaoke every December and there’s not a dry seat in the house afterward. Plus it reminds me of the salad days of the late…
Jethro Tull’s 1977 album Songs from the Wood remains one of my alltime favorite albums, weaving a rich tapestry of paganesque folk imagery amidst lively musical accompaniment. Where I live, here in South Florida, there’s no sense of seasonality, no winters, no real sense of an Old World or the passage of time. This album…
This has got to be one of the most surreal Christmas songs of all time. The improbable pairing of famed golden-oldie crooner Bing Crosby and in-the-prime-of-his-Berlin-period David Bowie is just enough to make head scratches, but to put them together in a video that is just replete with 70s network television contrived cheesiness (“Hi, I’m…
Ray Davies was NOT particularly happy with the music industry, and certainly let his feelings known on The Kinks’s 1970 album Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One — which will hereby be shortened to Lola vs. Powerman for the purposes of this review, because even with cut-and-paste, it’s still a bother to reproduce…
The harmonies on this one get me every time. Monkees Riu Chiu Lyrics Riu riu chiu, la guarda ribera; Dios guardo el lobo de nuestra cordera, Dios guardo el lobo de nuestra cordera. El lobo rabioso la quiso morder, Mas Dios poderoso la supo defender; Quisola hazer que no pudiese pecar, Ni aun original esta…
Boots is a big fan of this one. I really dig it too. Can you just TELL it was produced by Jeff Lynne? I picture a bunch of long fluffy beards, leather vests, and indoor shades going on here. EVERYONE’S a Wilbury! (I want a Rickenbacker too…)