One of my most naggingly "What *is* that?" records ever. I was never into them enough to own the album, so I just heard "Since I Left You" ambiently, like the air. (Or like Air, actually.) About 2 weeks ago I was in a restaurant and had to Shazam it, & once I did, I was all "Oh, *that* song."
It's horrifying to recall that many of us once lived in a world where Steve Winwood was an A-list pop star. *shudders*
@kateyrich.bsky.social now that your former colleagues inevitably won’t, PLEASE bring @joereid.bsky.social onto your pod to do a 2027 Oscars year-in-advance preview!
I find it maddening how often people on text-based socials — & especially this platform — post responses to things without actually saying to what they’re responding (generally in the news). Some of us avoid mainlining current events for mental health reasons. Just a *little* context even?
The fact this is isn't on streaming services should be considered a hate crime. (#2 R&B/#40 pop in early 1983.) I may have more to say about "Put It in a Magazine" soon.
The timpani on Larry Levan’s remix of Inner Life’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” is one of the greatest sounds in recorded music.
Oh look one of the 5 or 10 greatest singles ever released, hands down.
200 fucking percent.
Fuck Gavin Newsom. Fuck him, fuck him, fuck him. I will never, ever vote for him. And the institutional Dems had better fucking not even try it.
Happy 35th anniversary to one of the greatest singles of all time.
Supporting Gavin Newsom in the primary is announcing that you'll step over the dead bodies of trans people and unhoused people to get what you personally want. It's a character defect. We can't be friends.
The best Springsteen single is "One Step Up." I'll fight over this one.
Obv the Grammys are... let's just say the Grammys and roll our eyes. But that said they may have tipped me off to a couple of new-to-me artists this year in their winners, particularly Durand Bernarr, who referred to "butch queen"s in his acceptance speech and may be... pretty great?
Such, such a superb book. Highly recommended.
The world is a fucking trash fire but as I age I become increasingly convinced that THE RETURN OF THE DURUTTI COLUMN is one of the best albums ever made. (& the expanded edition is even better.)
Birthday boy Steve Perry is one of the greatest rock singers ever. Journey's GREATEST HITS, currently closing in on 900 weeks on the BILLBOARD 200, is one of the greatest rock comps ever. I wrote this appreciation almost 19 years ago and still love it.
It's Steven Adler's birthday, and while Guns N' Roses aren't considered hair metal by many now, they certainly arose from that primordial ooze. An appreciation of the genre.
WHOA. I still listen to the first HELP album -- so good, so epic. This sounds awesome. There better be CDs!
If you'd told me a month ago that my most-played song for January 2026 would be a 20-year-old single by Wolf Parade, I would've scoffed and told you how crazy you are.
But then Shane and Ilya and Scott and Kip came into my life, and well, everything changed. #heatedrivalry
How is it that this doesn't seem to get credit as, essentially, the first Afrobeats single to make a big splash in the U.S.?
I just heard part of “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” for the first time and it sounds like nothing so much as “Stuck in the Middle with You.” Unexpected. 🤔
“I went down to the beach and saw Kiki…”
I get earwormed with, and listen to this, a minimum of once a week.
Enya is pretty goth. & this is one of my favorite cold-season albums. #NowPlaying #CDFriday (it’s Friday where Enya lives)
I know that schmaltzy Cliff 🎄 records are practically a genre unto themselves these days, but I’ll always love this one.
You mean there are people who *don’t* frequently get earwormed with Madonna’s Live Aid performance of “Into the Groove”?
If you'd like to see something that will -- or should -- bring you happy tears today, watch this. I don't care about the Emmys, but I definitely care about Jeff Hiller and SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, which will eventually be considered a classic.
I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story
#CDFriday thanks to Wall of Sound in Seattle. $1! This was the first place I — and I suspect many Americans — first heard “Unfinished Sympathy.”
