Not sure what’s up with those three shivering dudes in the trenchcoats, but I do suggest you get out there and enjoy the sun while it lasts. Where I’m at, the forecast is calling for rain.
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Music for a Sunday: Song of the day
Well, what would YOU have posted? Ha, ha.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Chilean rap fights back
Chilean rap group Portavoz (“Spokesperson”) questions the “popularity” of the Piñera government. Here’s my translation of the lyrics: They want to crush you, kicked and tossed out like a plasta* Liquored up and doped until you say basta Anguished and drugged with cocaine paste, no doubt You’ve asked why a
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: She’s a sad tomato
I am smitten. I’m the real thing.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: I need it, I need it, I need it
You are the young things fed on garbage and lies: I’m talking far too much about my shame.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: I really wanna lay it down
Ah, Prince. Equal parts smooth and subversive. Let’s hope this video stays up…
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Let’s exchange the experience
Tell me we both matter…don’t we?
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Right from the start
I don’t know which is more incredible: the fact that this song is now 30 years old, or that it sounds even better live than it did when I first bought it on vinyl. It’s note-perfect here, and I la-la-la-love it still.
Continue readingMore Music for a Sunday: There are days…
This Luca Mundaca tune reminds me a great deal of this one by Marisa Monte, both in terms of theme and vocal stylings: Both make loneliness and getting by a little easier, and make them sound downright lovely.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Whitney Houston, RIP
This isolated vocal track from my favorite song of hers feels ghostly now that she’s suddenly, sadly gone. But it also illustrates just how well her voice stood on its own, with almost none of the melismatic warbling that her later imitators put on. She could have released this one
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: A movie or a measure
For some reason, this song always feels right to me in the dead of winter: Dreaming is free.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: On everything but rollerskates
Line up, put your kisses down.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Die a little death again
“Let it all out/Breathe it all in/I’m so far out/I’m IN!”
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Hut, hut, WHUT?
Q. What do you get when you cross a certain sanctimoniously obnoxious quarterback with Ziggy Stardust? A. THIS: Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Ziggy Star-Crossed. Otherwise known as the Thick White Puke.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Till the fearless come…
Still relevant, and still cool. How about that?
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: I will be with you again…
Back before the Berlin Wall fell, there used to be this really cool band from Ireland. Whatever happened to them?
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: A sky-scraping dome
I remember when this one first came out, and there was a whole lot of shrieking and controversy. How could a notorious group with an “out” gay lead singer, who shot to fame with a video that was deemed obscene*, put out a love song for Christmas? And with such
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Garlic in your soul
And arsenic sauce!
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: There’s a moon in my throat
In honor of this recent bit of odd news, I felt this was only fitting.
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: The liquid clock bursts into song
The album version of this is awesome; this is awesomer. (And I don’t care if the reference to landline phones dates it. I have one myself, and I do not want a cellphone.)
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