Max at Power Pop has a regular feature where he chooses his top songs from a particular year. Instead of clogging up his comments section with my choices, here they are, and I’ve included a Spotify Playlist of my top 10 favorites. These were taken from this list at playbackfm What are your favorite radio…
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dVerse — Q190 — Now Ashes
image link Chalk outline-sketchedYellow tape-festoonedRelationship crime sceneFebruary’s dead Valentines Grabbed, slabbed, toe-taggedEvidence room desertForensics team stymiedCold case mystery No bodies claimedMorgue now overflowingHearts in limbo Convoy of hearsesCruise Crematory LanePurge in flame Ashes in the wind. Mish is today’s host for dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. Mish says:write a quadrille (exactly 44 words, minus title) using the…
#SLS Grammy Winner — “Black Hole Sun,” by Soundgarden
image link I wrote it in my head driving home from Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, a 35–40 minute drive from Seattle. It sparked from something a news anchor said on TV and I heard wrong. I heard ‘blah blah blah black hole sun blah blah blah’. I thought that would make an amazing song…
Friday Favorite Feature 14, Martin Scorcese’s film, Rolling Thunder Revue (2019)
image link Friday Favorite Feature 14, Martin Scorcese’s film, Rolling Thunder Revue (2019) Netflix’ Rolling Thunder Review, aka Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorcese, is a film I’ve been putting off watching since it was released. I did try to watch it a few years back but Patti Smith’s freaky performance…
dVerse — Poetics — Letters of Love
Barb and Rod when grey dulls life’s gleammind wandering back to bleaknessyour face, grace, returnsyou turn, I follow your lightblack numbness again vanquished Punam is today’s host of dVerse’ Poetics. Punam says:I think, we all have many, maybe hundreds, of unsent and unwritten letters inside us. So let’s write letters today. Write to…
#SLS — Going Unplugged — “Wild Horses,” by The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones 1971 There are so many good acoustic songs out there but I have to wonder how they cross the line, into rock, and still be acoustic, as rock music almost seems to imply the addition of electric guitars. I do think this one can be called rock music. As I read the…
#SLS Underrated Songs — “Dime” by Cake
I first became a Cake fan back when my younger son went to college up north and used to ride with his friend back and forth for holidays. His friend was a big Cake fan and younger son brought the music to me. Since then I have bought all of their albums and will continue…
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