31 Days of Music – Day 30
Day 30 – Song/Album that brings up a certain time in your life Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables. Take one angry teenager, Ronald Regan in the white house and one hell of a political statement put on vinyl and you have a very memorable combination. The first hard core punk album I [...]
31 Days of Music – Day 29
Day 29 – An artist everyone hated but you liked Les Claypool. I’m not normally one for Avant Garde music. I’ve tried to get into Frank Zappa but I just can’t do it. My two exceptions to that are Tom Waits and Les Claypool. Les Claypool drives Robin nuts but I love him. Ironically she [...]
31 Days of Music – Day 28
Day 28 – Song/Album that you feel is your life anthem I cannot possibly pick one song that is my life anthem. What I have decided to do instead is to write about a genre of music that is a huge part of my life, The Blues. Now to the uninitiated, that may seem like [...]
31 Days of Music – Day 27
Day 27 – Artist you’ve seen live the most I’ve lost track over the years but I’m fairly certain this is a three way tie between seeing concerts by Oingo Boingo, Neil Young and Lyle Lovett. A pretty diverse list now that I look at it. For years I used to keep every ticket stub from every show [...]
31 Days of Music – Day 26
Day 26 – An song/album that changed your opinion about an artist Radiohead – In Rainbows. I already wrote about this here in my blog so there is not much else to add for this post.
31 Days of Music – Day 25
Day 25 – An album that disappointed you REM – Up. I have been an REM fan since I first heard Chronic Town coming out of my brother Tim’s room. When he left for Colorado, he dropped a stack of records on my bed, in that stack was “Murmur” & “Reckoning” by REM, ”17 Seconds” [...]
31 Days of Music – Day 24
Day 24 – An song/album that you wish more people would’ve liked more Bastinado – “This is Rugby Dance!”. I will admit, I am biased on this choice. The lead singer David Blunk is a friend of mine. He used to be the guitar player for Thirty Ought Six in Portland and I met him [...]
31 Days of Music – Day 23
Day 23 – Favorite lyric from a favorite song One good thing about music, when it hits you fell no pain One good thing about music, when it hits you fell no pain So hit me with music, hit me with music Hit me with music, hit me with music now ”Trenchtown Rock” by Bob [...]
31 Days of Music – Day 22
Day 22 – First album owned I’m changing this slightly to to “First album purchased”. I owned a lot of hand me downs from my siblings but the first piece of vinyl that I ever bought with money I earned on my own was “Friend or Foe” by Adam Ant. I was a big fan [...]
31 Days of Music – Day 21
Day 21 – Favorite song from your childhood I was born on the day Bobby Kennedy was killed in 1968, the last of 8 children with a 17 year spread amongst them all. As you can imagine, I heard quite a variety of music growing up. I was a toddler when the Beatles broke up [...]