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…
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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.…
We’ve been watching the 1978 BBC series Connections on Youtube at dinner time. It is a history of the world thru technology, demonstrating the chain…
from BaghdadBrian in the twittersphere: Alive in Baghdad correspondent Ali Shafeya was killed on December 14th, details are still coming in. He was 24, survived…
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…
As far as I know, this is the first youtube vid using LibriVox audio. This is DE. Wittkower reading Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism. Music is…