Category Archives: music

Welcome back to the eighties. We’ve missed you.

Posted on July 1, 2017 by ecto

There’s a possibility I wouldn’t like these guys if I knew more about them, so I refuse to know anything more.

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powaqqatsi

Posted on June 18, 2017 by ecto
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“Damn he is playing the hell out of that jug”

Posted on June 12, 2017 by ecto

Also, that may as well be Wolfman Jack on the keyboard.

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Clocks ticking slowly dividing the day up

Posted on June 1, 2017 by ecto
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thank you for being a friend

Posted on May 18, 2017 by ecto

Each and every one of the five guys in this video, including Andrew Gold who I assume is the responsible party, had to try to find something in himself that would make doing this alright. And I think they succeeded. … Continue reading →

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This is not my favorite version of Radiation Vibe

Posted on May 17, 2017 by ecto

but it’s still awesome.  Hem’s cover is my go-to version. 

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Dolores O’Riordan

Posted on May 11, 2017 by ecto

I love Dolores O’Riordan’s story. I’m a sucker for poor Irish lasses.

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Smoke em if you got em

Posted on May 1, 2017 by ecto
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Saddle up

Posted on May 1, 2017 by ecto
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Why go half way?

Posted on April 30, 2017 by ecto

It’s a singalong, everybody!

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Posted on October 21, 2014 by ecto

So Nick Cave has the power to raise some bullshit found-footage of women dancing with animal ears affixed to their heads to something profound and ungodly sensually mind-blowing.

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Zepparella

Posted on August 28, 2014 by ecto

I wish I’d taken more. What a great show.

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this song will fade out

Posted on March 25, 2014 by ecto

One of my all-time favorite videos. Ron Mael’s strip-tease makes me laugh just thinking about it.

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I hope nothing ever happens to me in my life like that again

Posted on March 25, 2014 by ecto
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Focus

Posted on March 24, 2014 by ecto

Hocus Pocus, by Focus, always leaves me cheery and laughing. Which I think was one of the main points to it.

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those traveling wilburys

Posted on March 24, 2014 by ecto

The first album I ever bought from a *store* was ‘On the Third Day’ by ELO. As a proto-collector, I went on to buy several other ELO albums as my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th albums that I bought at a … Continue reading →

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RIP Lou

Posted on October 27, 2013 by ecto

Love has gone away and there’s no one here now, and there’s nothing left to say; but, oh, how I miss him, baby.

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this is the day

Posted on October 12, 2012 by ecto

Well, you didn’t wake up this morning cause you didn’t go to bed You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red The calendar on your wall is ticking the days off You’ve been reading some old letters You … Continue reading →

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Freebird Man

Posted on January 5, 2011 by ecto

Everyone has a superpower. Mine is that I can listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd unironically.

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All the dead bodies piled up in mounds

Posted on November 9, 2010 by ecto

I’m not going to sit here and tell you that “Heroin” isn’t the best live song ever recorded in the history of mankind. I won’t do it. What I will say is that every time I listen to it–the very … Continue reading →

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