The SFB

Random musings from a Gen X life lived on the edge… of nothing except Lake Erie. 70s and 80s pop culture and music.

music

  • It’s the End of the World as We Know It

    And the rabbit hole I fell down while reminiscing about this PERFECT song. It’s the end of the world as we know it and are we feeling fine?  If you were in college in the early to mid 80s R.E.M. was everything.  I was reminded recently that It’s The End of the World As We… Read more

  • To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

    I may or may not have been studying for finals here in the spring of 1986. Part 2: The College Years  “Boys and girls and music. Why do they need gin?” Annie, It’s a Wonderful Life Everything fun happens at night.  Especially a summer night. When you’re young and fun, all the good stuff happens in… Read more

  • To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

    The confluence of music and attraction. This is part 1 of what will probably turn into a three part saga, LOL. I have to broadcast a warning before anyone reads this. And maybe I am being presumptuous but… if I have dated you, loved you, lusted after you, or had any romantic or semi-romantic relationship… Read more

  • Gen X Christmas tunes were THE best!

    Just a small sampling of songs we sang at the top of our lungs! Back in the day as they say, and by that I mean the early 80s, us Gen Xers had our own Christmas songs- and we freaking loved them.  For one, you could only hear them during the month of December.  No… Read more

  • 1994, I Miss You and Your Music.

    Where have 31 years gone? A VERY blonde me in 1994. Oh my missing collagen. And eyebrows! Lol! On a recent road trip I spent a good number of car-bound hours tuned into Lithium on SiriusXM.  What a time capsule.  It got me thinking about what an absolute bounty of music came out in 1994. … Read more

  • Mysteries

    Can they be solved? Do I want them to be? Someone I sort of know a little through the wonder of social media inspired me to write about mystery. That person is a mystery to me. I have found it difficult to meet new people in real life, especially when you reside in a small… Read more

  • MUSIC DELIVERY SYSTEMS

    From turntables, boom boxes, to the Walkman and the Discman, it’s back to a record player for me. Growing up Gen X, there was nothing quite as cool as your record player.  Except maybe your boom box. But listening to record albums on a turntable was the ultimate and best music experience next to an… Read more

  • The Grateful Dead and Long Lost Friends

    Feeling a little nostalgic and sentimental. And wondering where the hell thirty years have gone? As usual, I am late.  I have to work very hard to undo a decades old habit that I inherited from my lovely mother of always running late.  I am getting better….. so… Thirty years ago on June 30, 1995,… Read more

  • ROCK STAR STYLE

    Marc Bolan THAT ROCK AND ROLL LOOK PART I David Johansen and Sly Stone.  Icons.  News of their recent passing has lit a fire under me to get going on this piece. I’m merging several different ideas here; fashion and music, jeans and cigarettes, and some other randomness. If you find yourself reading my nonsense,… Read more

  • K-Tel, 8 track tapes, Soul Train and Sha Na Na! Gen X and a Veritable Cornucopia of Musical Influences

    Late Boomers, early Generation X and music. And SNL Two things on my mind these last few months: the varied music my generation was exposed to and, since this year was the 50th anniversary of the cultural phenom that at one time was SNL, how those two converged in some interesting ways. Generation X music-… Read more