Happy birthday to the most important listener/reader of Five Songs! YES, YOU. The Pixies, "Where Is My Mind?" I'm not sure a week doesn't go by where Dave Lovering's entry into this song doesn't go through my head. And that's without talking about how...
Polyrhythmics, "The Mendo Mulcher" I sometimes wonder if I'm going to look back on all the instrumental funk and soul that I listen to these days and think how a lot of it has aged poorly, in the same way that so much of the...
SIX SONGS Buck-O-Nine, "Tear Jerky" I often wonder at the functioning of the human brain. I frequently have trouble using the correct "M" name for the various folks and dogs who live in this house with me (in my defense, I've never used the dog's...
I'm not entirely sold on this new version of Ghost Blog that I've installed. I feel like the editor is worse. Oh well. Music here! Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, "12th Street Rag" My oldest daughter started learning the clarinet in school last year, so I...
Today's music. The Flaming Lips, "Stand in Line" Prior to turning into the atmospheric, melancholy, fuzzed-out band they are today, the Flaming Lips were an experimental, drugged-out psych band that really didn't know where things were going, but didn't particularly care. They released a series...
