In a batch of old music magazines I borrowed a while back, I came across a few issues of a long-out-of-print periodical called “Sounds”. “Sounds” was a large format publication, printed on newsprint (like those old Rolling Stone magazines). It differed from a lot of other music mags by way of it’s writing. There were…
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Of Headlights and Ditchflowers
If you don’t use your headlights, you’re going to be seeing those flowers in the ditch really close up. Hmmm, never mind… In the 1980’s and early 1990’s, there was a band in the Tampa Bay area called The Headlights. In a hot and humid local music scene dominated by a lot of hair bands,…
Neil and the Aztecs
That would be a good name for a band, wouldn’t it? Or, Neil and the Incas. I was going to write a post about how some of the lyrics in Neil Young’s song “Cortez the Killer” always bothered me a bit in their historical inaccuracy. But, a search of the Internet reveals that someone else…
The Beatles vs. Kiss?
In about 6th grade, one of the classes I was in divided itself into Beatles fans vs. Kiss fans. One had to choose which band they liked better – and the class was pretty evenly divided (this was about 1978 or 1979 after all – the height of Kiss’s popularity). I liked Kiss, but didn’t…
R.E.M. in the 80’s
R.E.M. in the 1980’s had an aura of mystery. The impenetrable lyrics, the jangly guitar-based sound, which harkened back to the days of The Byrds and beyond. The album cover art – kudzu covered railway bridges, gargoyles, folk art collages. The famous fact that each band member wanted their playing/singing mixed lower than the rest…
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