I’m going to offer up another exhibit on RIAA’s shortsightedness on the original Napster. The first song or songs I heard from Everclear’s Songs From an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning to Smile, released 10 years ago this week, were Napster downloads. I’d not heard anything by the band before I came [...]
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Tim July 14th, 2010 | Tags: Everclear, Midweek Music Moment, Music, rock | Category: Music | One comment |
 Print This Post |  Email This PostToday’s music moment comes about only because of today’s news. The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961, the outstanding performance by the Bill Evans Trio, is one of 25 new additions to the National Recording Registry. In making the announcement, the Library of Congress said the five sets the trio performed on June 25, 1961, “are [...] Tim June 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Bill Evans, jazz, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostWhen the June 9, 1973, issue of Billboard magazine briefly reviewed Jimmy Buffett’s new release, it called it a “[g]ood soft rock collection.” Evidently, the reviewer didn’t get any clues from the album title or liner notes or pay any attention to the opening notes or other content of the album. Okay, there might be [...] Tim June 9th, 2010 | Tags: country music, Jimmy Buffett, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Leave a comment |
Print This Post | Email This PostEven though I probably wasn’t aware of the routine yet, Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s On First?” reminds me of buying The Guess Who’s American Woman. I called my best friend on the phone after getting the album and the conversation went something like: “I got the new album by The Guess Who.” “Who?” “The Guess Who.” “Who?” “Not [...] Tim May 12th, 2010 | Tags: 1970s, American Woman, classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music, The Guess Who | Category: Music | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostBy the most common definition of the term, The Ides of March were a one hit wonder band. Forty years ago this week their song “Vehicle” broke onto the Billboard charts, where it would peak at number two in late May 1970. Never again would the band hit the top 40. A popular Chicago-area [...] Tim April 14th, 2010 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostGranted, it’s a compilation album. And it comes after both Sgt. Pepper’s and Abbey Road. That said, Hey Jude, a/k/a The Beatles Again, was long my favorite Beatles album — and remains among my favorites 40 years after it was released. Some don’t consider this an “official” Beatles album because it is a compilation. [...] Tim February 24th, 2010 | Tags: Beatles, classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) |
Print This Post | Email This PostI need to get back in the habit of doing this series and thought I would do so with an approach a bit different than before. It is prompted by a statistic I came across in the last couple weeks. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, “people tend to most [...] Tim February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostTrue, Harry Nilsson’s Son of Schmilsson was released in the summer of 1972. But with the cover, on which Nilsson appears as Dracula, and the B-horror movie sound effects between the first and second tracks, it seems an appropriate topic for Halloween week — even though I value the album as a tremendous deconstruction [...] Tim October 28th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostPristine. That may be the only way to describe the sound quality of Steely Dan’s Aja. When you consider that the album was released 32 years ago today, it says a lot for what was achieved. I know Steely Dan gets a lot of disrespect from some quarters. Their music — at least [...] Tim September 23rd, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, jazz-rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music, Steely Dan | Category: Music | Comments are closed |
Print This Post | Email This PostUsually, I try to use album releases and recording sessions as the basis for these features. But something struck we when I realized that September 15 was the anniversary of the death of jazz pianist Bill Evans. When he died in 1980, he was barely 51. That’s what struck me. With [...] Tim September 16th, 2009 | Tags: Bill Evans, jazz, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed |
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