The Best Mogmerican Music Blogging vol. 3 (2010ish eddition)
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Greetings Netizens of The Mogosphere and beyond. It's about that time again. For those of you just joining us, every once in a while I like to compile some of my favorite blog posts I've been reading. This is not a mutually exclusive effort though, because like all great Mog posts, you gotta stick around for the threads (and stick in your own two cents).
Every once and a while here at Mog, the community is shaken up. Some long time users fall away, occasionally coming back, while others swear it off like a bad habbit (and by it I mean Mog, since Mog has been known to be habbit forming).
This anthology, I would like focus on "The Posts That Spawned". That would be posts that spawned other posts, inside jokes, on going battles of musical critical jousting. These may be single posts that spawned ungodly threads, or posts that spawned posts, that spawned posts. If you Mog enough, you soon realize how easy it is to go down the musical rabbir...er.. wormhole. There's some great minds at work putting up fresh content daily for you here, all because they love you. Or at least the music you love.
Mike The Knife - Toxic Tuesday's
I'm not sure if Mike invented Toxic Tuesday (as Mog has a long history of theme days), but I'm willing to give him credit. These are some of the most entertaining posts about those songs so toxic, you might just throw up in your mouth a little. Worse than that, you may be singing some of these songs for the rest of the week.
Toxic Streak Continues With Simpleton Stevens
The Great Jazz Debate
Jazz (like Punk) will have it's champions and detractors. Even here on Mog. I still struggle with it's legitimacy of being a so called "underground" music.
Jazzophobia (Bartleby)
Jazz, A Love/Hate Relationship (contrabandwidth)
A Little Post Becomes a Map of Canada's involvement in Rock n' Roll
I love to map things out, and thanks to computers, there are some great sites out there that allow you to do just that. In following this little known singer, Lynn Carey, who was briefly famous for her staring roll in the Fabuously bad movie Beyond The Valley of The Dolls, I became interested in the city of Toronto's involvement in rock. Turns out we Americans owe a lot of credit to our neighbors of the north for contributing so many vital links in Rock n' Roll's legacy.
Vocals In the Background - Lynn Carey and Mama Lion
An Addendum Post - Mama Lion's Neil Merryweather
Posts from some of the Moggers we haven't seen in awhile
I'm not sure what happened to Seuth, but I always liked his posts. He introduced me to some music and perspectives I might have missed. I don't really know where Lizzie is these days, but she was one of the most hardcore, enthusiastic moggers I've ever (not) met.
Cody ChestnuTT, Afrobeat, and Barack Obama - Seuth
Bill Withers - Seuth
Moon Over Brandywine... - Lizziegreeneyes
The Games Moggers Play
The Mog Aggregation Challenge and the post that initiated it.
Mog Wars (I need some help from you guys on this one!)
As always, post away some of your memorable posts, or the ones you feel were neglected....
Locating MOG account...
Comments (12)
Psyched to re-scan these, man. love this "event".
Gonna pass on the Mog Wars Assistance Program though.......
I figured we all needed this post. Plus I've been sitting on it WAY too long.
scotfree's sliders in the playlist arena are kind of a new take on wormholes.
Here's a MOGwars death post..
http://mog.com/Cody_B/blog/181538
Links! Post Links! I really need to check those out further (the scottfree posts), though.
http://mog.com/playlists/78600
Here's a slider...up above
Here's a fave
Another fave
New School Post w/bonus playlist
Nashville: Across The Tracks and In The Shadows
But enough about me..
Somehow I never quite caught the rules. I'll have to give it a try when time permits. Nice game though, definitely remeniscent of Wormhole. Mog Aggregation Challenge never caught on the way I hoped, and was much easier (in a sense) to understand the rules of.
I did a Beethoven to Lil Wayne..fun stuff. Playlists can be a bit hard to find.
Didn't you do a bunch of Northern Soul posts? I'd like the links to those again. I never got to check out some of the artists you mentioned.
I have been slacking in keeping up with MOG vets. I'll humbly submit my spoof of rock conspiracy theories...
http://mog.com/blog_post/content/2159/1606107
FF:Darrow Fletcher-Northern Soul King