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Monday, February 4, 2019

Happy/Unhappy Couples: Happy Loving Couples

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Joe Jackson : Happy Loving Couples [ purchase ] Valentine’s Day comes during the end of this theme, so it seemed like a good time to l...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

Spies and Secrets: Secret Agent Man

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purchase [ Johnny Rivers Secret Agent Man ] Kind of in the middle of the James Bond/Man from UNCLE and Danger Man (in the UK) came Joh...

SPIES & SECRETS: MY SECRET IS MY SILENCE/RODDY WOOMBLE

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If, like me, you find a tot of melancholia is the best pick-me-up on a frosty February morning, you could do a whole lot worse than immer...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Spies and Secrets: F.B.I.

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Ian Hunter : F.B.I. [ purchase the album at a very high price ] [ purchase just the song, at a reasonable price ] Growing up, as a go...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Spies & Secrets: It's No Secret

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purchase [ Jefferson Airplane Takes Off] James Bond, The Man from UNCLE, Our Man Flint ... the 60s spawned an interest in spies that p...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

SPIES & SECRETS: THE SPY/THE DOORS

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Daa-daaa-daa-daa-da-da. I began to sing the guitar part that frames this song within a second of seeing the theme and, despite having don...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Spies and Secrets: Secrets and Lies

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Jonatha Brooke : Secrets and Lies [ purchase ] This theme was inspired by the recent revelations that there is a chance that the Presi...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Spies and Secrets: The James Bond Theme

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purchase[ The Ventures: James Bond Theme ] Whereas spies aim to be as secretive as possible, there's no better song to scream ...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

In Memoriam: Avicii

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purchase [ True ] It wasn't more than about 1 minute into my decision to post about Avicii that I realized I might be in over my h...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

IN MEMORIAM: LIAM ÓG O’FLYNN

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A much more influential individual than the blank expression that meets the hearing of his name in most circles, O'Flynn was the firs...

In Memoriam: Yvonne Staples & Edwin Hawkins

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Edwin Hawkins Singers : Oh Happy Day [ purchase ] The elephant in the room here is Aretha Franklin, a musical titan who died last year...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

In Memoriam--Marty Balin

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Another "cheat" post for this theme, in honor of the great Marty Balin, one of the founders of Jefferson Airplane, whose blue-e...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

IN MEMORIAM: DOLORES O'RIORDAN

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I remember the first time I heard the Cranberries. The musical soundscape was pretty drab and uniform in the early 90s, you could have e...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

In Memoriam: Ed King

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purchase [ Second Helping album ] It seemed to me that there were a lot more choices for the 2017 <In Memoriam> theme than for ...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

IN MEMORIAM: JOHANN JOHANNSON

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I've a sneaky feeling this possibly unfamiliar name may mean more to the cinephiles out there than to the musos. I'd like to hop...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

In Memoriam--Russ Solomon

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Steve Hackett : A Tower Struck Down [ purchase All Things Must Pass, the Tower Records documentary ] [ purchase Hackett's Voyage o...
Monday, January 7, 2019

In Memoriam--Roy Hargrove

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I'm going to cheat a little here, but about a year and a half ago, I wrote a piece about the opening of Jazz Forum , a jazz club in T...
Friday, January 4, 2019

Un-Sainted Nicks: Nicky Hopkins

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purchase [ No More Changes ] Can you identify a musician's "signature style" just by hearing them play on a particula...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Top Posts of 2018

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We interrupt the Un-Sainted Nick theme for our fourth annual listing of the most viewed posts of the prior year. Through our (usually) ...

UNSAINTED NICKS: STOLEN PROPERTY/TRIFFIDS

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To nick is to steal in my land. That is, amongst myriad other meanings, including, bizarrely, to arrest someone and put them in THE nick, a ...
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