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I was thinking about musicians who have belonged to at least two major rock bands. There’s a lot of them, so let’s narrow it down: I’m interested in the sidemen, not stars like Dave Grohl or Eric Clapton. For our purposes today, spinoff projects don’t count (where two or more people from one band start […]
posted 1 March 2010 in Tasty Bits. 8 comments
In my youth, when I owned only twenty or thirty albums, I’d guess that about half of them were greatest-hit collections. I was focused on value for money, but it was also an efficient crash course on recent musical history. Many of these records, however, had a song that just didn’t seem to fit. (This […]
posted 30 November 2009 in Tasty Bits. 4 comments
Five musicians I’ve interviewed who are no longer alive:
1. James Brown
2. Kurt Cobain
3. Left Eye
4. Barry White
5. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
posted 22 September 2009 in Tasty Bits. 1 comment
Five B-sides that got regular airplay in the ’80s on Z-100, then NYC’s leading top-40 station:
1. Prince, “Erotic City”
2. Bruce Springsteen, “Pink Cadillac”
3. Bruce Springsteen, “Jersey Girl”
4. U2, “Everlasting Love”
5. The Police, “Murder By Numbers”
posted 2 September 2009 in Tasty Bits. 2 comments
1. Duran Duran
2. Liquid Liquid
3. Talk Talk
4. The The
5. Mr. Mister
posted 12 January 2009 in Tasty Bits. 3 comments
That is, songs specifically about elections and/or voting, not just miscellaneous political or societal change.
1. X, “The New World”
2. Radiohead, “Electioneering”
3. Arcadia, “Election Day”
4. Little Steven, “Vote That Mutha Out”
5. Talking Heads, “The Democratic Circus”
There are fewer of these than I would have guessed (although Lyle Lovett and the Replacements also have songs called “Election […]
posted 4 November 2008 in Tasty Bits. 2 comments
I had a surprise same-day deadline today, so the next installment of the 1988 countdown will have to wait until next week.
But I thought I’d share a list I came up with last week while I was waiting for Beck to hit the stage:
TOP FIVE MOST-FAMOUS MUSIC VENUES IN THE USA:
1. Carnegie Hall
2. The Grand […]
posted 2 October 2008 in Tasty Bits. 8 comments
Nobody batted an eye at the Beatles releasing two albums in a year. (In 1965, they put out Help! and Rubber Soul, not to mention a movie and a few killer non-LP singles such as “Ticket to Ride” and “We Can Work It Out.” Oh, they also toured the States and John Lennon put out […]
posted 28 July 2008 in Tasty Bits. 10 comments
