Odetta — Battle Hymn of the RepublicOkay, first things first: I love the movie Dogfight.I mean, really LOVE the movie Dogfight. It was a very quiet, subtle story that not a lot of people paid attention to when it was released, but for me, it's one of the sweetest things ever put to film. I think it's the best movie River Phoenix ever made, and probably the best thing Lili Taylor will ever do. I tu
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Olivia Newton-John & ELO — XanaduNot much in the way of long-winded reminiscences or justifications for this one — just the fact that Olivia Newton-John has a voice like the sun bursting through a gloomy, cloud-covered sky. The singing here is pure joy, and it never fails to make me smile. Plus, ELO!Now—where in the hell did I put my roller skates?
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UB40 — (I Can't Help) Falling In Love With YouReggae and Ska seriously insinuated itself into the British pop scene through the late 70s and early 80s, and for the most part I was all for it. The Clash, Madness, The Specials, The Police, English Beat, Fine Young Cannibals, hell, even Culture Club. I dug them all. So why is it that, even now, UB40 fills me with such uncontrollable rage? I've never
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The Constantines — On To YouMy sincerest apologies to Messrs. Dylan, Springsteen, Seger, Cash, Waits, Costello, Bowie and Floyd. I beg for understanding from The Clash, The Ramones, The Replacements, The Stones, and even The Hip. And I just pray that someday AC/DC can find it in themselves to forgive me. Given the breadth of my musical tastes, the variety of genres that I dabble in, and the
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Cowboy Junkies - 200 More MilesI've always had difficulty falling asleep, ever since I was a kid. No matter how tired I felt just 10 minutes before, it seems that the second my head hits the pillow, my brain jumps into overdrive and I end up staring at the ceiling for hours. So there always needs to be… something, just to distract myself until the eyelids can get good and heavy. Nowadays, mostly,
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Stevie Wonder — Boogie On Reggae WomanWhen Liam moved back to Windsor in the early to mid 90s, Sunday nights suddenly went from totally dead to being the best night of the week. The funk and disco dance mania that was Boogie Night at The Loop started out small enough—a 500+ (approx.) capacity bar underflowing with 30 or 40 of our friends, two turntables set up on a rickety buffet table up on the s
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Dead Kennedys — Stars and Stripes of Corruption"A song you know all the words to" is a far too open ended thing — especially for me. My music collection is huge, and I know the words to hundreds, if not thousands, of songs. So what? Whoop-de-doo. Some people can quote lines of Shakespeare from memory, or bible verses, or the poetry of Robert Frost. I can quote you rock and roll.But these were the
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Neutral Milk Hotel — In the Aeroplane Over the SeaReminds me of : sitting on the hood of my car at 3 o'clock in the morning in the middle of the loneliest road I have ever driven on.New Brunswick / middle of November / highway 180 from Bathurst to Saint-Quentin / (at least) a foot of snow / no houses in sight, just trees, trees and more trees. In 4 and a half hours I only saw 2 tractor-trailers, b
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VIOLENT FEMMES-Blister in the SunThe summer of 1985, my brother and I and all our friends were into skateboarding. This was just before the big explosion of skateboarding came with the introduction of the super-wide "Firefly" boards. We were still using those skinny little 70s almond-shaped boards. Then we started pulling the trucks off and making our own boards in my dad's workshop. We built ours
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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band — Junglelandmy father, who was the first one to teach me what it was to truly appreciate music, largely through his love of this song;my best friend Sean Johnson's father, Ralph, who was a Springsteen fanatic, and who taught Philosphy at the University of Windsor, including a course he created called "The Philosophy of Rock and Roll";an ex-girlfriend, who took
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