Garmarna I went out to Spotify and found a playlist someone made of 100 of the best Scandinavian songs, but after sampling many of them I wasn’t too keen on the musical tastes of the person who put the list together. Then I put a search on Scandinavian musical artists and started scrolling until I…
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Friday Favorite Feature 21 — “No Words” (cover) by Popdudes
image from discogs Sorry for another late posting but it’s still Friday here. Will try to do better next week. While listening to this week’s Spotify Release Radar (from now on abbreviated to SRR) this tune struck me as very pointedly Beatlesesque. Popdudes is the long-running power pop inspired side-project for music scribe, John M….
MMB 2024 Week 2 — “Yellow” (cover) by Bande à part (with update on 1/10/24)
I decided to take a look at my growing playlist of music gleaned from Spotify’s Release Radar to find a musician or band beginning with the letter A or B. It took me some effort to find some information about them in English, which I never did. I’m guessing they are from France, and they…
#SLS — “Thrift Shop,” by Macklemore
I can’t remember when I first saw and heard this but do remember how tickled I was by it. As a person who loves to go yard-saling and thrift-shopping, it felt like validation and feels like an anthem for all people who do. “Thrift Shop” is a song written and performed by American hip hop…
Friday Favorite Feature 20 — “Try,” by Stan Snow
I wrote each song to satisfy the music fan within. After I finished writing each tune, I would ask myself – ‘what do I want to hear now?’…and I would write the next tune based on what I was hearing in my head. — Stan Snow, about, “Into the Great Beyond” Sorry for posting this…
MMB 2024 Week 1 (A-B) — Arc Angels and Doyle Bramhall II
Because week 1 includes A and B, I want to include two songs that both involve one performer. I remember hearing one or two of their songs on the radio, but the way I came to the group was through Doyle Bramhall II when he played David Gilmour’s guitar parts on Roger Waters’ three-year tour…
#SLS — Musician Passed in 2023 — Tom Verlaine of Television
If you want to get a sense of the passing of time through the deaths of musicians, go to wikipedia and look at how long that list is. Although not all by any means, but the ones who stand out for me for 2023 are:Tom Verlaine died 1/28/23Wayne Shorter died 3/2/23Gordon Lightfoot died 5/1/23Sinead O’Connor…
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