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What I want to discuss is the brilliance of the album Panorama. I though I loved The Cars’ first album the best. And then I though I loved Candy-O the best. And then I gave Panorama a serious listen. For a record that wasn’t particularly important to me over forty years ago, it has become… Read more
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I don’t think so but… I’ve been working on a post for quite a while about what I think may be the not-so-hidden gem of all The Cars albums but it’s not quite where I want it yet. So because I haven’t posted in a while, I’m writing this as a sort of preface to… Read more
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Anyone else out there just get in their car and drive with no particular destination in mind? The fall weather has been spectacular this year and the conditions are perfect for long drives. Four days past Halloween and there is still a lot of color on the trees. We’ve had gorgeous sunsets and very few… Read more
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Kind of weirdly personal and took a long time to write this one. I also hesitated quite a while before sharing, but here goes… Benjamin Orr. Gifted singer, talented musician, gorgeous human, sad, happy, “randy”, funny, quiet, father, bandmate, son, brother, lover, husband. Ben died twenty four years ago this month, a few minutes before… Read more
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Help me to get unstuck. Have you ever gotten to a point in your life where you think/feel/know you don’t want to do this anymore? Whatever this is for you? This of course is different for different people. I’ve been increasingly feeling this way for the better part of this past year. And I feel… Read more
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And the year I graduated from high school. I followed a thread on Twitter (I still can’t call it X) started by @PreetBharara in which he posed the question “What was the best song of 1984?”. Impossible to choose. I have been meaning to write about the music of 1984 for a while now in… Read more
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I frequently take walks around the village, through the neighborhood where I grew up, past houses where my friends lived, on streets where I hung out when I was a teenager, and most of the time the streets and sidewalks are empty. I wonder; where are all the kids? What are they doing and where… Read more
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Two things from the 70s I’m really into right now; the word foxy which I shall promptly add to my lexicon, and the shag haircut. Let’s talk Rock and Roll and Hair. They go together like peanut butter and jelly. From the Beatles’ mop tops, Elvis and Buddy Holly’s DAs, Robert Plant and Roger Daltrey’s… Read more
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I’ve invested a lot of time recently in an entire subculture; people who write, blog, post, and make videos about musicians and bands and singers they remember from their formative years who may or may not still be around. This begs some questions. Why have I done this and why does this subculture exist? Why… Read more
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Do you ever feel like you really belong in a different generation? What if you’re 58 when you finally realize what you should have done with your life? I’ve always had a feeling that I was born too late and took the wrong path. As I have written before, I never really knew what I… Read more
Random musings from a Gen X life lived on the edge… of nothing except Lake Erie. 70s and 80s pop culture and music.
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