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The Great American Broadcast (Otis Ferguson, Writer, Part 2)
So just a few, um, thirteen-and-a-half years ago Dave and I were having a discussion about Otis Ferguson, and I'd inserted a couple of long Otis quotes, one of which we talked about a little but the other not much at all, so here it is again:
There is no reason why the movies should stop making bad musical comedies so long as bad musical comedies ( Read more... ) -
Tonight The Ballot Let Me Down (Resurrection and Correction)
I talked Ashton Shepherd's "Whiskey Won The Battle" out of obscurity and into Tom Ewing's World Cup Of 2008 competition coming up in March, and have already prepared my spontaneous retort for when the song gets eliminated early on:
"Tonight the ballot let me down!"
The regular question - what REALLY obvious/huge 2008 things are we missing?
- The World ( Read more... ) -
ADMIN: A Philosophical Disquisition: What's A Single? incl. links to Chuck's Best Singles Of 2020
Here courtesy me are two new YouTube playlists:
Chuck Eddy's 11 Best Singles Of 2020
Chuck Eddy's Best Singles 2020 Numbers 12 To 33 alphabetical by artist
And Chuck's writeup of same.
And here's a provisional list of my Top 8 Nonsingles for 2020:
Top nonsingles tracks
1. Semi Tee "Reverse"
2. Die Antwoord ft Bukhulubakhe, Gqwa! "Zonke Bonke"
3. AZ "Hustla ( Read more... ) -
A Dingo Bell Ate My Bhabie (Frank's Eardrums December 2020)
Here's my most recent Eardrums playlist.* It's kinda overrun by my latest infatuation, Brazilian funk, which is a species all its own - there are a couple of subspecies, brega funk from Recife and regular old funk carioca from Rio and São Paulo, except I'm just now diving into them, and damned if I can tell the difference.** For instance, DJ Guuga' ( Read more... ) -
The Spoonie Gee Trilogy
Spoonie Gee's "Love Rap" is coming up in Tom's latest Twitter poll, and I've been meaning to link these for a while anyway and I've run out of excuses not to.
Basically, I became a rock critic so that I could write about Spoonie Gee and Teena Marie, though that barely begins to explain it - right off, I'm not just writing about Spoonie Gee, I'm ( Read more... ) -
We live on the surface when our hearts search for the deep (Top Singles 2020 through October)
Great year for excellent murk, a lot from Atlanta's Spillage Village collective, Dreamville Records, EarthGang, JID, gumby flexible voices, a sense of motion at the side or just out of the frame, like an Altman movie. So you've got your rap or your melody but the surrounding sound as well, just a lot of stuff, the street fair, the campfire, the ( Read more... ) -
Joey Beltram Stands His Ground (Dance Party 1990)
Last month Tom Ewing ran a World Cup Of 1990 on Twitter and nearing the end asked, "For voters here, I'm interested - has the relatively deep dive of this poll changed your opinion of 1990 at all? (assuming you had one!)" My basic response is too long for 280 characters, or even 2800, so I'm blogging it here, also referring to and embedding a ( Read more... ) -
It is the beginning of 'sister unit' (excerpt from Lee Sun-hee's Wikipedia page)
I'm preserving this long excerpt from Lee Sun-hee's Wikipedia writeup in case some dutiful Wikipedian discovers the entry and takes out all the good stuff:
In 1984, she participated in the 5th MBC Riverside Song Festival as a team named '4막 5장' with Im Sung-kyun, senior of the same department of university, and made her debut earning great ( Read more... ) -
Juice and Squirrel
Twitter art:
Click the link, it works best in context:
https://twitter.com/HenriettaRI/status/1261014588964909058
Here's the song:
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A Disquisition On Hyphens
The Loco-motion will always be downgraded for its superfluous hyphen (also the reason why Spider-Man will never be a top tier hero in my book)
- Peter Baran (@pb14) April 11, 2020
It was a different time
- αℓαη тяєωαятнα ✍︎ (@alantrewartha) April 11, 2020
"I was glad I had seen the cars in this natural setting, which was, after all, a kind of Plato ( Read more... )
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