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Infatueighties #62: “King of Pain”
For those who are actually following this and wonder where #63 went, it’s “The Boys of Summer” by Don Henley, which I already discussed at length here. Let’s move on to one of the only artists viewed as being as pretentious as Mr. Henley. Yes, folks, that would be Gordon Sumner, who you know better as Sting. Sting, along with Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, was a member of The Police, who recorded the song […]
Sunday Seven: Loving The Aliens
Here’s a dirty little secret about what’s on my iPod: I, almost exclusively, put singles on it. It’s probably not the most appropriately music-snobby approach, but it serves a couple of purposes. One: it gives me a strict, easy-to-adhere-to criterion for editing down a library of more than 20,000 mp3s (3200 CDs, 400 LPs) to fit onto an 80 gig iPod. The other purpose is that at the times when I’m listening to the iPod […]
Friday Throwback – Ex-Factor
When I think of what some of the most emotional songs I’ve heard are, I always come back to a song by Lauryn Hill from her solo album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. Though I’ve never been in quite the relationship that she describes, I think to anyone who has been in a really powerful relationship, some of this probably resonates.
It could all be so simple
But you’d rather make it hard
Loving you is like a […]