Category: mixed tape

This week, TV theme songs. Greatest American Hero I can’t really remember this show all that well, but I sure remember the song. The Littlest…

The eighties were a difficult time for the human race: so lost, so confused. This confusion came out in the music, in the dancing, in…

In the year 2000, I split up with my girlfriend, and was going to move to New York City in six months, for a new…

Montreal jazz legend Oscar Peterson died this week. Oscar Peterson & Count Basie: Slow Blues (198? ?) Brilliant, as Oscar and the Count compete to…

Kim Carnes: Bette Davis Eyes (1981) This one held up pretty well, I’d say. Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks): Dreams (1977) From the incomparable Stevie Nicks.…

Whatever you want to say about the sixties, looking back it was a time of the kind of change I don’t think we’ve seen since.…

This week, in celebration of the launch of earideas.com, (and the earideas audio challenge) songs about lifting off. Peter Schilling: Major Tom (1983) So of…

Some of the great tracks from the kid’s show. NOTE: I just put up fridaymixedtape.com … for those of you who don’t want to have…

Bring on the funk. Stevie Wonder: Superstition (1972) One of the best openings in rock n roll. (And check out Stevie playing this tune on…

Some tunes about books. The Cure: Killing an Arab (1979/80) Amazing footage of the pre-make-up-and-crazy-hair Cure, in an intimate live show, singing a raw and…