Browsing Posts published in November, 2012
One of 2012’s best songs and… most… interesting videos
…from two months into the future: maybe going anon wasn’t the greatest idea ever. But it was an idea. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry. If you do, or think you do, give me a holler. You have a week.
One of my favorite films of the 70s is Robert Altman’s Nashville. The movie is full of great music and this is no exception. Yes, it is satire of corny country cheating songs. But this song has grown on me so much that it’s become a favorite. I really liked Haven’s patriotic song, but this […]
I posted Cheap Trick yesterday and now I post another Chicago favorite of mine Big Black and their cover of He’s A Whore.
More classic power pop from Illinois. Looking back, it’s hard to imagine what the arena rock crowd thought about Cheap Trick in 1977. While most 70s rock bands were talking about partying and drinking and sex, Cheap Trick wrote songs about domestic violence, drug addiction, suicide, serial killers and (in the case of this song) […]
