Things Have Changed

My favorite R.E.M. album, Lifes Rich Pageant (1) , was released 40 years ago this summer, though my favorite song remains Driver 8 from thei...

Time we had a little zydeco music (a fusion of Cajun and rhythm & blues) here.  It's a cousin to Dr John's style of music.  This...

 He's done pretty well for a guy with no grade point average .    This sweet bastard right here. You probably don’t know his name but y...

I posted the studio version of this Dylan song a few years ago, and have a Mavis Staples cover on my playlist but just came across at Assis...

  Hey, nineteen That's 'Retha Franklin She don't remember the Queen of Soul It's hard times befallen The soul survivors She ...

The final scene from Local Hero.  I've loved this movie since seeing it with Mrs THC more than 40 years ago.  The soundtrack by Mark Kno...

  Back in 2017, THC did a post on the memorable trip he took with the future Mrs THC on the Magic Bus in September 1978, traveling from Athe...

Time of your life, hey kid?  Indelible mood music from Tangerine Dream.  Hearing it, images from 1983 flood back into my mind.  Not just of...

 Brian Johnson (AC/DC) and Mark Knopfler are both from the North of England, Newcastle to be specific.  Brian has done a series of interview...

It was twenty years ago today that Warren Zevon died at the age of 56.  Thought it was appropriate to listen to a few of my favorites.  We...

All the Federales say They could have had him any day They only let him slip away Out of kindness, I suppose From Merle Haggard and Willie N...

Today marks 38 years since the release of Dire Straits fifth studio album Brothers In Arms, which has sold more than 30 million copies world...

I was putting together a playlist of 1980s Pop.  Not a big fan of post-Peter Gabriel Genesis and a lot of Phil Collins stuff leaves me cold,...

Pentangle was a folk/jazz/oddball English group in the late 60s and early 70s.  I like this jazzy tune; think it's in 5/4 and 7/4 time, ...

What's a sweetheart like you Doing in a dump like this? Asks Chrissie Hynde in her warm and enveloping voice.  Recorded in 2020.  Compos...

A rousing, rowdy holiday song from The Pogues and Kristy MacColl, released in 1987.  The lyrics are a lot of fun, with the singers slagging ...

Another Dylan cover for you, this time from Bettye Lavette in 2018, with a song from Dylan's 1985 album Empire Burlesque.  Very differen...

There is no political solution To our troubled evolution From Ghost In The Machine, the 1981 album from The Police.  The suitable atmospheri...

  You've left my ring by the soap, Now is that love? You cleaned me out you could say broke, Now is that love? The better better better ...

After Men At Work, for a brief period in 1983 the biggest band in the world, broke up a couple of years later, Colin Hay, lead singer and co...