purchase [ Mary Mary - the Monkees ] This Mary-Joseph post was begun the day the theme went live. It's been sitting - waiting for ins...

The Beatles : Let It Be [ purchase the basic version ] [ purchase the Super Deluxe version ]  It’s been a crazy couple of weeks, as we m...

I may have said this before, here if not here, but Hey Joe is my favourite song and has been for as long as I recall. The simplicity of the...

Have you guys had Line of Duty yet? Any UK readers will, of course, be well aware the long running and entertaining police procedural, extol...

[ purchase ] Since I started writing here almost exactly 10 years ago (my first piece, a holiday post about The Roches’ Christmas album ...

If you are of a certain age (old) and in the UK, there is the classic line: "They think it's all over; it is now!" It refers t...

  purchase [ Small Change ] SMM has done a fair number of posts of Tom Waits' songs, but to the best of my search-ability, never this on...

I'm enjoying my leftovers this year, the opportunity to concentrate on individuals who have caught my ears and my heart these last sever...

 Well, if nothing else, a post here about Joanna Newsom has the opportunity to sidestep a similar piece appearing in the FUNNY VOICES theme,...

Kevn Kinney : Broken Hearts and Auto Parts [ purchase ]  Somehow, I almost completely missed Drivin’ N Cryin’, a band that emerged from ...

Hmmm, possibly straying to close to the bone with this one, given I am currently "unwell" and away from work. Let's just say t...

  purchase [  The Best of CW McCall  ] I would not have thought so, but apparently trucker CB radio is still a thing - even in this day of d...

If I get this in before a 'heart', I'll be surprised, the sentimental old buzzards that we all are, over here at SMS, but I'...

  Purchase [ Velvet Underground ] Star Maker Machine has been around Halloween-themed things before (including Trick or Treat back in 2018)...

Duty bound to prop up this side of the atlantic, with candy, like movies and garbage, an americanism that has crept in and gained an increas...

  Bow Wow Wow : I Want Candy [ purchase ]  In 1980, Malcolm McLaren, who was either officially or unofficially managing Adam and the Ants ...

 I have never quite worked out whether my love for 10,000 Maniacs stemmed more from their name than their music. Certainly it was the name t...