fun. : All The Pretty Girls [ purchase the studio version ] [ check out this version on Daytrotter ] A few years ago, probably when m...

96 TEARS: ? and the Mysterians Purchase link I was never sure where the idea that punctuation occupied an alternate alphabet came f...

[Purchase] 10cc's 1978 album, Bloody Tourists , remains an all time favorite of mine even though I know, as a rock snob, I ...

  CSNY: Almost Cut My Hair [ purchase ] What do The Hollies, The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield have in common aside from the fa...

[ purchase ] I am pleasantly surprised that, on this, the last day of our Stage Names theme, no one has tackled David Bowie. Bowie, in...

Blind Boy Grunt : John Brown [ purchase ] Robert Zimmerman, better known these days as Bob Dylan, signed to Columbia Records in Octob...

   In the mid 60's his friends convinced Arnold George "Gerry" Dorsey to change his name to Engelbert Humperdinck, after ...

[ purchase ] A look at the thesaurus provides the scholar with variations on our theme such as appellation, sobriquet, moniker, cog...

John Wesley Harding: Sussex Ghost Story [ purchase ] Eh? That's not Dylan and indeed it's not. In fact the image isn...

Hole : Doll Parts [ purchase ] Sometimes, it is harder to come up with an idea when there are so many choices out there than when the ...

Billy Joel: Allentown [ purchase ] My second post for Star Maker Machine, back in 2008, was about the difference between a protest so...

I have to admit that I cannot remember ever being at a bar for last call. Which is not a joke—you know, like “if you remember the sixt...

Rolling Stones: You Can't Always Get What You Want [ purchase ] One lesson that we might pick up from the stand-off/shut-down come...

Tom Waits: Closing Time [ purchase ] Our current theme is rich with possibilities, but they require some creative thought to tease o...

Flogging Molly : Don’t Shut ‘em Down [ purchase ] So, of course, the government shutdown is over, and we here at Star Maker Machine ta...

Working for the Clampdown Get it, here! OK, so it's not the version you were expecting, but indulge me this opportunity to hit sev...

Beach Boys: Shut Down [ purchase ] The exuberance of the '60s Beach Boys was infectious: so infectious that they sold millions. ...

" Chris Bell: You And Your Sister [ purchase ] When I first posted the original version of You And Your Sister here way back in 2...

Steely Dan: Babylon Sisters [ purchase ] Babylon Sisters comes from the album Gaucho, which would be the last album from the origina...

Pernilla Andersson: "Don't Let Me Down" Pernilla Andersson: "Don't Let Me Down" (Twisted Sister cover) [ p...