That's right, but not that one, not even a cover of that version, but as good a taster as any to the remarkable and largely unsung tale...

The Lemonheads : It’s A Shame About Ray [ purchase ]  In the mid-late 1970s, I was in high school (hey—I’m old! I turn 60 today!), becam...

  [purchase Fleetwood Mac (White Album] More than once here I have professed fealty to Fleetwood Mac. In the early '70s, Fleetwood was o...

  purchase [ The Iron Man ] Welp ... it looks like SMM posts for this theme never got in to the alternate meaning of <fast> timed to f...

  purchase [ Steppenwolf: The Second ] I'm of the age where Steppenwolf's <Born To Be Wild> was a head-banging hit (before ...

Buzzcocks : Fast Cars [ purchase ]  Last week, “ Fast Car ,” this week, “Fast Cars.” Despite the similarity in the titles, the songs cou...

Our head honcho here at SMM sends out our homework on just about every second Saturday, with a handy explanation of how it may be tackled: w...

Way the world's going, what we need and what we need now is some head's down, no nonsense, mindless boogie. (No, not that one .) Aft...

Tracy Chapman : Fast Car [ purchase ]  This is my third piece in a row focusing on a Black woman. I’m not sure why, but I realized the ot...

As I read Jordan's last piece , erudite and informative, it got me a'thinking around the other taboo subject in popular song, seemin...

  purchase [ The Who By Numbers ] When I purchased my own first "stereo" back in '71, the merchant included a copy of "Wh...

Memphis Minnie : My Butcher Man [ purchase ]  There’s a long history in music of songs with double entendre lyrics. Now, Cardi B. and Meg...

  ....you'd probably barf, that certainly being also my reflex response to this nadir of kitsch, a song so ghastly I cannot bring myself...

 Yup, can't resist, the elephant in the room, or rather the dead elephant in the room, as passed over always has me reaching for the ref...

[ purchase the Complete Recordings ] [ purchase the DVD of the film ]  My wife and I just finished watching the eight part NatGeo (!) seri...

No, don't panic, Superlungs hasn't passed, this is the tale around how he coulda/mighta/shoulda "been" Robert Plant, were ...

  purchase [ choose one   ] In the bi-weekly notice to the SMM team for this theme, I jokingly threatened to include something Turkish. A re...

  purchase  [ New Chautauqua ] The term “record label” has almost become irrelevant. As we consume more and more of our music in digital fo...

Group 87 : Future of the City [ purchase ]  When I suggested this theme, I was trying to think of a St. Patrick’s Day theme that didn’t fa...

Mindful there has not been too much a pitter-PATter of posts arriving under this banner, time to think out of the box. And what could be bet...