I was going to take today to explore Number 1 Singles all over the world. I thought it would be fun to see the diversity between totally different countries, any country that popped into my head – New Zealand, Canada, Paraguay, Russia. But you know what? It wasn’t fun – the same crap is on [...]
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Is it common knowledge that Jerry Garcia plays Harry the homeless guy’s banjo bits in Philip Kaufman’s Invasion Of The Body Snatchers? I had no idea. I was watching the movie earlier today and I really liked Harry’s songs and his dog – NOT the alien doggy pod clone that wears Harry’s face … yuck. [...]
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It’s been 33 years since the Talking Heads formed and whenever I listen to them I still think their work is fresh. Rummaging through their musical corpus it was terribly difficult to pick only a single song I thought worthy of being tapped for Classics. There are so many. I settled on “Burning Down The [...]
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I bought The Wrens’ 2003 CD The Meadowlands a few years ago and I gave it one or two spins, but then I forgot all about it as is often the case with Backtrack albums. Now that I’ve given it a couple more listens, I have no idea why I never listened to it again. [...]
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Recent busyness here at Bean Central has kind of zapped my blogging mojo. Actually, it’s zapped pretty much everything but my Playstation mojo – I’ve barely done anything but play Tomb Raider Anniversary for days. Don’t judge me. But then I discovered something marvelous hiding in the 100b HQ inbox and I couldn’t wait to [...]
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