So…nearly 21 years since “Licensed To Ill” was released and me and my 6th grade classmates were reciting the words to this song on the school bus, I figured I’d head over to my good friend Wikipedia and find out what a “brass monkey” actually is.
Well, it appears that the old monkey can refer to either of two concoctions. One is a mixture of rum, vodka and orange juice (which sounds tasty, yet toxic) and […]
Chaka Khan. Chaka-chaka-chaka-chakakhan. Chaka Khan. Oops,wrong song.
A year before she had her biggest hit with a cover of a Prince album track, the woman whose momma named her Yvette Marie Stevens joined forces with her old band Rufus for the last time and produced this electro-soul classic. If they were gonna go out, I guess why not go out with this, right?
Some of you may remember “Ain’t Nobody” from the movie “Breakin'”,which it made an […]
I just bought a USB turntable and fell in love with it immediately. I’ve also found a local record store called “In Your Ear” that has tons upon tons of vinyl, most of which is 3 bucks or less. I went there last week and wound up with 31 albums, all of which are slowly making their way onto my iPod. Among the choices: “Still Crazy After All These Years” by Paul Simon, a ton of DeBarge (and El DeBarge solo stuff) and Marlon Jackson’s solo album. Yes, Marlon made a record. More on that some other time.
We are now up to 16,939 songs (show-off). Here’s today’s seven:
Track 1: “Baby Jane” by Rod Stewart: I can see how “serious” music fans would take everything Rod Stewart made after the mid Seventies and uniformly say “crap”, but damn it, my two favorite Rod songs are “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” and “Love Touch” (Mr. Cass, you’ve got to have my back here!). So bite me. “Baby Jane” was a hit single in 1983 or 1984, and had sort of a dance-rock flair to it. It’s a genre he mined intermittently throughout the Eighties, before he went the grizzled rock balladeer rout in the Nineties and turned into Barry Manilow with a raspier voice at the turn of the century. Listening to those standards albums, you appreciate his 80s music a lot more, don’t you “serious” music fans?
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