Rants and Ravings of a Misguided Dreamer and Observer
Salutations™!! Happy All Hallows Eve! Until tomorrow, same blog channel…Scorp out! —“I was struck by lighting, walkin’ down the street. I was hit by something last night in my sleep. It’s a dead man’s party who could ask for more? Everybody’s comin’, leave your body at the door. Leave your body and soul at the…
Salutations™!! Dear Reader… (yes I know it’s been a while since I’ve addressed you directly) what in the wide world of sports is happening out there today? Not once, not twice, but about four times today I got behind someone who was driving at least 15 miles per hour below the posted speed limit. I…
Salutations™!! Today is the 36th anniversary of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s debut double album, Welcome to the Pleasuredome. I love this album. Front to back, it’s a great dance/new wave/synthpop album. I really dig it. If I owed a hockey team, this would be the song that the team would come out to at the…
Salutations™!! Today is the 43rd anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks… Here’s the Sex Pistols. I’m not a huge fan of this kind of Punk, or any Punk, really, but this album is important. I could play a cover of “Anarchy in the U.K.” but I don’t want to be obvious all…
Salutations™!! Today is the 37th anniversary of Prince’s first “big” album, 1999. It was no Purple Rain but it was pretty big. He had important albums prior to this, but this was the first I ever hear of him and the biggest charting impact he had ever had. The album reached #5, the title track…
Salutations™!! Full disclosure, this is late. A few days late. Okay, that’s out of the way. Today is the 35th anniversary of the Miami Vice Soundtrack. It was a pretty monumental soundtrack, especially for a television series. This was the first of several including a “deluxe set” from the series. There have been several “reaction”…
Salutations™!! Yesterday was the third edition of RSD 2020 (the April version that got spread over three months). There will be an RSD Black Friday edition which I think is ridiculous and shows a money-grab. That doesn’t mean I won’t participate. I just think this year, dragging us through what will be four months straight…
Salutations™!! Today is the 34th anniversary of my favorite Stryper album, To Hell with the Devil. It came out right after I moved to WSNC and since I was new here, and although I had met some friends, I wasn’t driving and I had no place to go, so MTV helped me get a better…
Salutations™!! Today is the 36th anniversary of Wham!’s Make It Big album and it’s hard to pass that one up, but because I talked about the death of Tony Lewis yesterday, I missed KISS’s sophomore effort, Hotter Than Hell celebrating it’s 46th anniversary. The overall mix of this album is like it’s done in a…
Salutations™!! On Monday, Tony Lewis died “suddenly and unexpectedly” near London, at age 62. Tony Lewis was the bassist and songwriter for The Outfield, whose Play Deep album meant and still means a lot to me. I won’t pretend that The Outfield was one of my “favorite bands.” But, I have actually stated (twice, I…