Donovan Leitch has the reputation for famously inventing everything in popular music, every genre, every tuning, every style. OK, I je...

Simon & Garfunkel : A Hazy Shade of Winter [ purchase ] I know we can write about any season, but it would seem strange to be writ...

Cheap Trick : Surrender (live) [ purchase the full concert—it’s cheaper than the original version! ] When you Surrender, it is The En...

U2 - Achtung Baby [ purchase ] One blog post does not contrition make. I speak of my dereliction towards U2 over the years. I need to...

Purchase The Strokes, The End Has No End The Strokes. In 2001, their debut, This Is It , was perhaps one of the greatest rock albums o...

Been thinking a bit about ends recently, as in end of times rather than the other ends of, well, anyone. That can be depressing thinking, ei...

Roxy Music : Both Ends Burning [ purchase ] Roxy Music is one of those bands that have a handful of songs that I like (basically, the ...

purchase [ End ] I've seen cover after amazing cover of this song. It's a pretty solid song: the lyrics can take you to all ...

Have Scritti Politti ever appeared in these pages? I don't believe so and that is a shame. They were, and indeed still are, a fine...

purchase [ John Barleycorn ] I was on the road when SMM did the Two Words theme back in late July, so I couldn't contribute. There...

The Plimsouls : A Million Miles Away [ purchase ] I’m kind of surprised that no one has ever written about this song on Star Maker Mac...

Dire Straits : Down to the Waterline [ purchase ] Dire Straits burst on the scene in 1979 with a combination of literary lyrics and ...

Sarah Vaughan : Gravy Waltz [ purchase ] Joe Williams : Gravy Waltz [ purchase ] Let me start this post by talking about Steve ...

Purchase [MFO] I've waffled back and forth for 10 days about this theme, but I am going to go with this one. Seems to me that I h...

The Cranberries : Linger [ purchase ] Continuing my sub-theme of Thanksgiving foods that I didn’t like as a child but do now, we tur...

I confess to always feeling and being a little bit lost when this yearly staple comes around, not even sure entirely for what the thanks ...

Golden Smog : Pecan Pie [ purchase ] Getting older mostly sucks. I’m sore, I take medication, I have to watch my diet, and on and on...

Little Eva : Let’s Turkey Trot [ purchase ] Ian & the Zodiacs : Let’s Turkey Trot [ purchase ] Back in the days when I mod...

Purchase Silver Train : The Rolling Stones   or Johnny Winter Goat's Head Soup , by the Rolling Stones, came out in 1973 and marks ...

I was slow to get on the techno train, electronica/dance a difficult ask of my guitar shaped ears. Half the battle was getting my head aroun...