Well there are a lot of those in the music biz, I thought, on a first mistaken hearing of the title of this piece. Maybe one, then, for anot...

My last post , about the TV show The Great has, so far, turned out to be one of the least popular things that I’ve ever submitted to this ...

Is there a more chilling song in the the already well-refrigerated canon of Richard Thompson? No stranger to a bleak lyric, this song, fr...

purchase [ Newman's Bad Love album] When I was a kid, my folks picked up a couple of Tom Lehrer albums for family entertainment...

[ stream on Hulu ]  I watch a lot of TV in general, but the end of almost all outside the home entertainment and, until recently, televis...

So much of what is deemed is great just grates. At least to my ears. I have always had a taste eccentric to the vox populi, preferring and t...

Purchase LCD Soundsystem's "Someone Great" from the 2007 full-length  Sound of Silver In life--in our understanding of truths,...

purchase [ Platters version ] purchase [ The Band version ] purchase [ Freddy Mercury version ] There are many notable version of ...

Gang of Four : Not Great Men [ purchase ] There’s an old theory of history called the “Great Man” theory, which, not surprisingly, loo...

purchase [ Carney ] Masquerade is directly/clearly implicated in the the <mask> theme: a false show or appearance Two weeks...

O, shame the poor wag who suggested the name of the album was a suggestion to the band. Cripes, they aren't that ugly, are they? Hardly ...

[ purchase The Quality Holiday Revue (Live) ] [ purchase What's So Funny About Peace, Love And Los Straitjackets ] [ purchase other ...

Purchase, Screaming Tree s, Girl Behind the Mask So, apparently Gloria Estefan (I'm not sure if she brought the Miami Sound Machine...

By now you know the score, I type the theme into search on my i-tunes and snarf up anything applicable. Mask wasn't so great, masque sli...

purchase [ The Joker , album] I think it's safe to say that the visual image most people conjure of the joker is some variation o...

Andy Summers/Robert Fripp : I Advance Masked [ purchase through Discogs because Amazon’s prices are not reasonable ] You’re probably ...

purchase [ Can't Wait ] Dylan's <Can't Wait> went through various gestations before appearing on Time Out of Mind....