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Posts by sandwichcake
Glamorous Glue
This Is Not A Love Song, Part I
I was planning on writing a well considered essay on the music that meant the most to me in 2006. It would have been high toned, and intelligent and probably a lot of hot air. Instead, I opened iTunes and sorted my music by "play count," which is a more honest reflection of what I really listened to. I was surprised by some, embarrassed by others and every now and then, reminded of some impossibly
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This Is Not A Love Song, Part II
After writing my post about the ten songs I listened to the most in 2006, I was about to burn them to a disk for a friend. But it seemed silly not to fill the CD, so I shared the 20 top songs with him. And as an additional attraction, I offer my thoughts about numbers 11 through 20 here.Rollover the titles for linksTokyofrom "The Lemon of Pink" by The BooksAdding their own snippets of music to ...
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Do The Shuffle
Some mornings when I'm walking to the gym and dialing through the music on my iPod I tell myself I have nothing I want to listen to. Nothing, not one of the nearly 1,000 songs on my iPod is worthy of being played. That's when I remember to turn on song shuffle. And every time I do I hear my music differently.I'm not sure how my brain is made to reconsider the songs, but all those random juxtaposit
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My Top Songs Are Gay
Weird how MOG also seems to know what I listen to on my iPod. I guess iTunes compiles what I've listened to on my iPod and adds it to the song info in iTunes. And I've been listening to a Astaire/Rogers at RKO disk on my iPod for about a week. I'm not the type of gay man who is all into old movie and Broadway. But something about the music from those RKO Fred/Ginger movies really gets me; it is bo
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Love and Happiness
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An opportunity to see Al Green was offered and a free concert in the sea side park at Coney Island and I accepted and it was a blast. Being 46 I grew up with Al Green and know his 70s hits and had them as part of the soundtrack of my life then. His falsetto was both vulnerable and sexy, and those photos of him from '72, skinny and shirtless, well, um, I was into Al.But that same falsetto made me w
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Rescued
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The hit song, “Rescue Me,†was number one on billboard charts for 3 months in 1965. I was five, and completely bouncing around to the song. It was recorded by Fontella Bass for Checker Records. Fontella Bass? Who knew?Well, I guess everyone who knows more than me about Soul music knows, but I was surprised. And I’m happy to find another nice soul disk, “Rescued: The Best of Fontella Bass.â
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