You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover - Bo Diddley Fopp - Soundgarden Seven Days - Ron Wood Critical Beatdown - Ultramagnetic MC's Cold Hands (Warm Heart) - Brendan Benson Summer, Highland Falls - Billy Joel Sleeping Bag - [...]
It's one of these days where there's absolutely no time left, so it's another Flashback Friday -mixtape for you. Enjoy this trip through time with songs about time. Zombies - It's The Time Of The Season Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle Black Sabbath - Time Machine [...]
We (Mom, Dad, Brian, Braeden and myself) all went to the Italian Festival in Wilmington tonight. It was jam packed. There was a ton of delicious Italian food; including the sinful Panzarotti (of which I ate so much I started feeling ill.) Great Italian music played, people dance, people laughed, it was wonderful. Braeden really enjoyed the kid rides this year. He even rode some of the rides by
"You might've heard I run with a dangerous crowd/ We ain't too pretty we ain't too proud" We take full responsibility if yesterday proved to be an especially painful Monday. It was painful for us, too - too painful even to post TGIM. But Tuesday is the new Monday and The Canals have always been ahead of the curve. Here are some very Friday tunes to cheer up your Monday (Tuesday). Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha Jamie Lidell - Multiply Ben [...]
MP3 : 1 Pennsylvania (4:05) 2 My Old Man (2:54) 3 More Like Terry (2:06) 4 Partners (2:17) 5 You Got To Lose To Love (2:29) 6 Cages (3:32) This item is a true mystery. I found it at an estate sale a few years back. It was the only tape of its sort in the house, mixed in with a large record collection. When [...]
It can be exceptionally hard to write a hit song, especially if it has, you know , words and stuff. What happens when you don't have anything left to say, but you know your melody rules and bears repeating? Simple: you whistle. You whistle your ass off. Regardless of whether or not you think whistling in a pop/rock tune is a songwriting cop-out... It can be exceptionally hard to write a hit song, especially if it has, you know, words and stuff. What happens when you [...]
get some boat drinks and turn this shit up!! Billy Joel "My Bmore Life (DJ Soap Remix)"
Had a busy week with the concerts, and therefore not much time to write for Flashback Friday . So once again it's Mixtape-Time. And what better theme could there be than some Live Classics? Enjoy those tracks, and who knows... some of them might even bring back some memories of a great concert experience from the past? Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon (Live) [...]
We went to see the third and fabulous Pirates movie. I so heart Johnny Depp. I so heart pirates! Music for you! The A-Sides - " Jump Back Jack " (mp3) Billy Joel - " Captain Jack " (mp3) Alela Diane - " Something's Gone Awry " (mp3 from her Pirate's Gospel album) Barefoot Truth - " The Ocean " (mp3)
"They got little baby legs/And they stand so low/ You got to pick 'em up/Just to say hello" I saw this sign on the subway yesterday: "Get Prepped For Success! Minority/Women/Small Business Owners: Sign up for the MTA and other government agency contracts." [...]
PARTY GIRL Charlie Rich The Complete Smash Sessions Polygram : 1992 [Buy It] Our friends at Minnesota Public Radio are putting together a segment on campaign songs, so MW & MPR are forming like organized crime to pose the au courant musical question: What campaign songs should America's most enterprising and indefatigable candidates adopt? BAM BAM Toots & The Maytals Monkey Man Berverly's : 1970 [Buy It] ? [...]
I would like to express my extreme appreciation and gratitude to my Mom and both of my Grandmother's as well as my Godmother and all of my aunts. A special Happy Mother's Day wish also goes out to Mrs. Stephan and Heather Fonder as you are both amazing Moms and I look up to you for your sincerity and wisdom. In honor of all Mothers and strong, amazing women everywhere. You all rock! Happy Mother's Day from Bring Me Up Music! Music for you: Martina McBride - [...]
When my family moved to Lombard in the summer of 1991, I remember the "big" thing that Christmas that the family got was a nice CD stereo system. It was our first CD player, which - yeah, we got a little late in the game, but despite the blinding amount of moving we did in my childhood (seven homes in three states in eight years), my family's not big on big change. Up until that point, my parents had enjoyed a really nice phonograph system (which now resides in my boyhood bedroom and spins Small Faces and Style [...]
Four episodes in and the love keeps flowing from the seventies' jar. Not only the love but also the big names. That said, you should probably be told that this will indeed be the last 70s episode I do. Yes it's sad but options are getting a bit thin and besides, I'm sick to do death of this whole series. But fear not, in my self-righteous quest to help those less fortunate than myself, I will continue to the end. As I've mentioned before and probably never needed to, the 70s was experimental and confusing time (yes it IS possible [...]
Ah, theme week. Three songs bookended by some historical Animaniacs clips, how's that? Billy Joel - "We Didn't Start the Fire" : I love posting first. This will cover our modern history lesson. I actually had an exam in college where we had the lyrics to the song and got points based on proving the context for the [...]
ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG Billy Joel The Stranger Columbia : 1977 [Buy It] BAD SCENE, EVERYONE'S FAULT Jawbreaker Dear You DCG : 1995 [Buy It] THIS IS JUST A MODERN ROCK SONG Belle & Sebastian This is Just a Modern Rock Song single Jeepster : 1998 [Buy It] THIS FUNNY WORLD Tony Bennett Tony [...]
But first off... I have some sweet literature to recommend. There is nothing cooler than a well read indie kid. I've just started Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , by Hunter Thomas. And I love it. To give you an idea of the basic idea of the book, here's the first paragraph. "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like 'I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive. . [...]
Songs from childhood. My mom had some pretty friggin' bad taste in music, let me tell you... --- Neat fact: I took tap dancing lessons for ten years as a child. Part of the reason was because I saw Bugs Bunny tap dancing, but the other part was because I always danced to this song by Elvis Presley, " [...]
Things in History that happened on August 28th (from Wikipedia): 475 - The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints his own son Romulus Augustus in his place. 1565 - St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving settlement in the European United States. 1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue. 1850 - Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar, Germany. 1884 - First known photograph [...]
Pop songs can be based on any number of instruments--synthesizers, guitars, or--the focus of today's post--pianos. Pianos can often be overpowering in songs--drown out the singer and taking away the vocal-based aesthetic that I so love. However, when used properly, they can add a lovely melodic element to songs, magnifying their power and giving them a very timeless sound. Even though the piano-based pop song is far from dominant in today's world, there are a good number of artists making such songs, so these are only a few of the many out there. [...]
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