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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Tom Petty's second and third breakdowns

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I just authored a post on my "JEBredCal" blog entitled "Breakouts, go ahead and give them to me." I doubt that many peo...
Friday, March 19, 2021

I really want to know

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I thought I'd let everybody know that I wrote a music-related post in the blog for my company Bredemarket. The post is entitled "I ...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

You make me dizzy, Miss Lizzie

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 I was driving around on Saturday, and found myself listening to arguably the best song from Led Zeppelin's fourth album. No, not that ...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Bittersweet...something

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Since I recently wrote about the fact that I blog here, I guess I should actually blog here.  And I have a lot to blog about.  As I’ve note...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

The evolution will not be televised - Bryan Adams and AllMusic

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If you poke around on the Internet, you can find this odd FAQ : Why can't I find Bryan Adams on AllMusic? Due to the request of Mr....
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

The so-called "worst songs" are actually pretty good - it's just the context that makes them bad

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I encountered the results of a 2011 Rolling Stone readers' poll of the worst songs of the 1980s . In a sense the songs that made the lis...
Friday, July 12, 2019

But you don't remember at all, as we get older

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So one night my wife (not my girlfriend) asked me to help with a DVR problem. She was taping a weeknight show, but the Friday episodes weren...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Pink Funk

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All of us of a certain age passed through the progressive rock era. In this case, the term "progressive" does not refer to a livin...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

How do you say "violate the space-time continuum" in Portuguese?

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Almost ten years ago, there was a concert in Lisbon, Portugal - a concert with the (English) name "Lisbon Calling." Now Madness ...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

My Valentine's Day Empoprise-MU music post on the de-evolution of choices

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So on Valentine's Day I'm going to talk about a love song. (Or, perhaps I should say a LOOOOOVVVVVVVVE song, as one of the student...
Monday, February 4, 2019

From secondary geographical perspectives - when an artist's music is released haphazardly in another country

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DISCLOSURE: I live in the United States of America. And that affects how I view things. For example, lately I've been thinking about E...

Familial DNA when the family is breaking apart

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I recently read two diametrically opposed articles about familial DNA - a positive article entitled A popular genealogy website just helped ...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Just starting to shave the fish

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I've been thinking about shaved fish a lot recently. If the term "shaved fish" sounds like the ravings of a madman, well, ma...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

In the clearing stands a boxer, and he goes doot! (Doot doot!)

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It has become clear over time that my views on music are not always shared by others. I've learned that few, if any, other people beli...
Monday, November 12, 2018

It is earlier here. We have a different time.

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These days, music can appear in a variety of forms. By Bert56 at Dutch Wikipedia , CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Take Laurie Anderson's Unit...
Monday, October 15, 2018

One more time (Devo, Madonna, and Odesza)

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On Monday I created a new playlist on Spotify, entitled 18103 (I'm using shorter playlist titles for better compatibility with Google As...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Think - when Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi saved Aretha Franklin's career

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This is a story of a woman whose career was in the toilet, and two men who were in the process of throwing their career in the toilet. In ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

A little more on Licorice Pizza

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When I moved to California in 1983, there was a record chain called Licorice Pizza. I've mentioned this chain (at least) twice on my blo...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Songs with invented histories, indeed

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Sometimes you can do your job all too well. By Böhringer Friedrich - Own work , CC BY-SA 2.5 , Link I've never seen the play The So...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Songs with histories, indeed (Take that, dawn!)

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I'm working on a special playlist for someone who doesn't like Bob Marley, so I'm searching for non-Marley songs. One of the son...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Blogging isn't the only thing that I procrastinate about

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Uh..hello. It's been a while. So what prompted me to write again? Another example of my procrastination. I used to do business with tw...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Why a Billy Idol record had a side 6

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I wrote about the Billy Idol album "Whiplash Smile" back in 2011 . And in the course of my discussion about the varied musical sty...
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