I will go to my grave believing that "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold, ridiculous lyrics and all, is a top-10 '70s LA rock song.

Several great covers of this song, but wow, this one:

Happy birthday, Patti Smith!

ruin two bands by combining them: Hüsker Dübie Brothers

Merry Krimbo everybody. May Carlos bring you whatever you wish for. #VinylSanta #VinylSantana

My first-ever #VinylSanta gift package exceeded all expectations! Huge Aimee Mann fan and Radiohead & Motown are can't-miss as well. Happy Holidays everyone!

There was an '80s indie band named Defenestration and even though I actually owned the record for a time, the only thing I remember about them is that their name means "the act of throwing someone or something out of a window"

🎵 Station, Agent Man! Station, Agent Man! They gave him an old depot And he lives among the trains 🎵

I have well over 100 of these compilations

Don't be one of those turkeys who complains about bike lanes being plowed, be a turkey who uses them!

“Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas” was released on this date in 1977.

I'm glaaad...

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Fun thread... movies like E.T. And Star Wars would not be shown on TV for many years after they were released in theaters.

Let's Go Crazy Gloria (in Excelsis Deo) Fake Empire Like a Rolling Stone More Than a Feeling (Two of these are Side 1, Track 1, Album 1)

Libraries rule, indeed. I just got a new library card (Prince, natch) at the recently-reopened Northeast library and spent some time scrolling through the available services on their website - it's mind-boggling.

The medical term for this is AndyRooneyfication of the eyebrows

Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842

So true! I first heard the Velvet Underground from my 40s-ish HS English teacher who taped me a copy from his original LP. He called them "The Underground Velvet" lol... I've always wondered if anyone else actually called them that.

The way that "alternative" music was marketed, at least in the US, actively encouraged this sort of snobbery - it's right there in the (made-up) name. Meanwhile, the artists themselves made no secret of admiring and being influenced by the Beatles, Doors, VU and countless other Boomer bands.

More trivia: These were part of a string of three consecutive number ones - starting with the preceding "Bad" by Michael Jackson - that received a "Weird Al" Yankovic parody on his 1988 album "Even Worse."

Switchin' it over to AM Searchin' for a truer sound Can't recall the call letters Steel guitar 'n' settle down

Very sorry to hear that Brian Garrity has died. In 2023, Brian published this great book of his (mostly Minneapolis) music photography, “Pushed Beyond All Reasonable Limits.”

Chess includes the Cadet label, which means it includes a track from the legendary Ramsey Lewis Trio Xmas album. Might have to add this to my holiday LP collection.

"You want me to rob a bank? Well I won't do it" www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKkA...

Also one of the first music videos I ever saw - HBO played it all the time between movies on a segment called Video Jukebox, years before MTV was available in the Midwest.

Absolutely thought this was a Spotify link for a post-rock album. In fact, I was surprised TBFMBHC wasn't the artist's name.

I said the same thing, but then my son said "blueprint blue," and he didn't even know that was a Steely Dan lyric!

Marsh, from this book, on "God Save The Queen" - "maybe Cyndi" is an all-time great parenthetical

"And she's GOT such a long way to GOOOOOOO"

I buy used/reissue vinyl and CDs from record stores and new music digitally on Bandcamp - artist gets paid, takes up even less space, and you still own it in full CD quality (sometimes better). Streaming devices from Wiim and others make it easy to play alongside physical media.

Frank Sinatra is just the tip of a whole iceberg of pre/non-rock pop music that I used to have zero respect for. I appreciate craft now, not just whether they mean it, maaan

"This Tornado Loves You" is a perfect song and so particular to Neko Case's sensibility, POV, quirks, strengths - I love when songs are these little monuments to the writer's existence, something that simply couldn't exist without the precise conditions of their being www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTL0...

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Joni Mitchell, 1974 Topps style, in honor of her birthday today

Obligatory #VinylSanta "This sort of thing is my bag, baby" post (1/2)

had to revisit Clube da Esquina in honor of Lô Borges. perhaps the most *all timer* of all timers on my record shelves, an album I could listen to any time, any day, and feel my spirits lifting. RIP 🕯️

48 years to the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

TFW Mr. Martini busts open the jukebox, too

Seth Rogen Wants To Put On A Slow, Dumb Show For You And Crack You Up

Jesus Built My Accordion

This articulates something I've come to understand since the internet made everything more accessible. Every successful artist we didn't like was seen as actively blocking those we loved from their rightful audience, so we hated them, instead of just saying, "eh, it's not for me"

Sadly, not a First Avenue dance night… not yet, anyway

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

Weird Al Yankovic, 1981 Donruss, in honor of his birthday today

What is the rationale for dropping a popular request show? Does it cost more to form a playlist from online submissions (maybe the occasional phone call, idk) rather than programming further in advance?

I was rooting for Milwaukee, but 3-for-3 with 3 home runs, six shutout innings and 10 strikeouts? In the first inning alone, he struck out the side and then led off the bottom of the first with a homer. The only player who could top these achievements is perhaps Ohtani himself, in the future.

Sugar, 1992 Topps style, in honor of Bob Mould’s birthday and the first new Sugar music in 30 years…

Pretty sure the only thing "magic" about the old Chi-Chi's was that it was magically someone in our party's birthday every time we went there so we could get the free fried ice cream