purchase [ Chicago Transit Authority ] (because the whole album is a classic, not just this song) Chicago, at one one of their more po...

Ian Dury and many others : Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll & Chaos [ purchase ] Aaah, synergy! Over at Cover Me , I have a...

Wardell Gray : Twisted [ purchase ] Our theme might have produced more posts by now if it was “mental illness”. That is certainly on...

There's a lot about the Grateful Dead that could be included under the heading of chaos. Carol Brightman's book about the band ...

Warren Zevon (w/Bruce Springsteen) : Disorder In The House [ purchase ] Warren Zevon is one of those artists whose music I’ve enjoyed ...

Lee “Scratch” Perry, The Upsetters, Dave Barker : What a Confusion [ purchase ] Dave and Ansel Collins : What a Confusion [ purc...

Ian Hunter : England Rocks   Ian Hunter : Cleveland Rocks [ purchase England Rocks ] [ purchase Cleveland Rocks ] One of the advant...

Nina Simone : Four Women [ purchase ] Lisa Simone, Dianne Reeves, Angelique Kidjo, Lizz Wright : Four Women [Not available for p...

Jerry Reed: Guitar Man [ Purchase ] Justice delayed: After years of being unfairly bypassed, Jerry Reed is finally making his way ...

It seems strangely apt to be looking at this song again, and the accompanying video, as relations between the US and Russia (nee USSR) be...

Grateful Dead : Dire Wolf [ purchase ] The Grateful Dead album Workingman’s Dead was released in 1970. I was ten years old, but my o...

Chuck Prophet : Summertime Thing [ purchase the original ] Back in 2010, when few of the current Star Maker Machine writers were associ...

Don McLean : On the Amazon [ purchase On the Amazon from Amazon ] I am not a big fan of Don McLean. He is an artist I know mainly fo...

Genesis : Turn It On Again [ purchase ] If you are a fan of Genesis , as I have made it abundantly clear that I am , there are a numb...

Jings, me too, this is a real toughie, scouring the interweb for songs relating "on" with "off". My initial idea had ...

purchase [ Dixie Chicks music] I've been a Dixie Chicks fan for a while: maybe it's the Dixie element (my years spent in North...

purchase Willy and the Poor Boys Judging from our output on the ON/OFF theme, you would be inclined to agree with Darius, that the...

Blackfoot : Left Turn on a Red Light [ purchase ] Our new theme is once again rich with possibilities, but it is surprisingly hard t...

purchase [ Step Right Up ] SMM has posted about Tom Waits in the past ( link to those posts ), but Step Right Up isn't one of them....

The Decemberists : Red Right Ankle [ purchase ] We’ve heard much about Right hands since this theme started, but not so much about othe...