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The Perfect Song by Tommy James and the Shondells and covered by Johnny Thunder Next up for the PERFECT song- perfect cover songs! Are you familiar with Tommy James and the Shondells I’m Alive? Perusing social media a while back I somehow found this absolute banger! But I actually stumbled upon the cover of this… Read more
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Music and music people and musicians and musical savants from whom I learn something every day. I wrote about exits a while ago. There have been a lot of exits the last eight years in the past eight years of my life. Because I have a tendency to look at the glass half-empty, I’ve focused… Read more
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Superfest, Summer of ’76, and Peter Frampton Happy 716 day to all who celebrate! In the summer of 1976 the biggest rock star in the world was Peter Frampton. He released his double live album, Frampton Comes Alive in January and it spawned three huge hits, Show Me the Way, Baby I Love Your Way and Do You Feel Like We… Read more
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I wrote this at the start of the new year… hoping, praying and trying to manifest some fiery forward momentum for 2026. 2026. The Year of the Fire Horse starts in a little less than a month. According to Chinese astrology, the Fire Horse is intense and powerful. I’m ready for intense and powerful- in… Read more
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In 1979 Rod the Mod went disco and a certain seventh grade girl was awestruck. Because it’s February and this world needs more love right now, and because it’s absolutely freezing outside…I’m going to focus on some songs that are about hot lovin’- in all forms. I have loved the particularly hot artist who sang… Read more
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Valentines season picks for THE perfect song. Even though Valentine’s Day is over, it’s still February, so I’ve got one more hot song about lovin’ that I want to talk about. Can’t really make a list of hot songs and not include something by Prince, and his early perfect hit I Wanna Be Your Lover… Read more
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Eyes Without a Face is THE perfect song. HTF did he not get more fan votes for the Rock Hall?????? I’d been thinking about including Billy Idol here for a while, and his nomination for inclusion in the RnR HoF, long overdue IMO, spurred me on to talk about this perfect song- Eyes Without a… Read more
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Part of my PERFECT song series. Not Enough Time is THE perfect song! And how the hell did they not get enough fan votes for the Rock Hall? SMH… Since INXS has been nominated for the Rock Hall they are next up for THE perfect song. It was really, really difficult to pick one song… Read more
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One of my picks for my PERFECT SONG SERIES The Emperor’s New Clothes by Sinead O’Connor is the perfect song. I should have posted this at least yesterday on St. Patrick’s Day if not earlier but as usual I’m late so here we are today. It may not be her best song- but it was… Read more
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