November 26, 2024
This isn’t the first Police single I remember, but it’s the first one I bought. I later ended up getting all the Police’s albums—and if I remember rightly, my sister had a few also. It was a year or two Read more…
November 19, 2024
I’ve been on a kick with singles and songs from my earliest days, but taking a detour this week as Fazerdaze has a new album out and a new single—”So Easy.”
November 12, 2024
Apparently, this song was only a middling hit in Canada—Wikipedia says its peak position was 56—but somehow I found it. And in 1980, that means I heard it on AM radio. This is a song that introduced me to a Read more…
November 4, 2024
Top 40 in Southwestern Ontario—basically, the area reached by Toronto AM radio—was really. . . eclectic. There was no other way I would have been exposed to Split Enz and “I Got You” any other way. The singles chart I Read more…
October 28, 2024
I had a paper route while I was in elementary school, so I had money. And while my mother ensured I saved, there was a lot that I spent. I spent on comic books, on going to the movies, and Read more…
October 21, 2024
I’ve been kind of all over the place with the first couple of posts in this thread, and I’m going to try to be a bit more organized. My plan is to start following a more chronological format—not necessarily when Read more…
October 16, 2024
The song of the day today is a more recent find—though it’s not a particularly recent song. It’s Trentemøller’s Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go!!! I pretty much always have music on in the background when I am writing—whether its creative Read more…
October 13, 2024
Music has been a really important part of my life. As a child, my mom got me in piano classes and viola classes. Early in high school I took saxophone in music class. But I was never a musician. I Read more…
May 20, 2023
I’m not planning on posting links to this anywhere, and if you are here–on this site–and see this, know that there’s not much here other than lamentation and justification. Why am I writing this? Posting this here? To vent. I Read more…