The other night, I had a pleasant surprise. Up popped a commercial for some Apple product or whatever, and I saw – good Lord, it’s Stevie Wonder! Wow. Stevie Wonder still sounds great. And since his first hit, “Fingertips (Part 2)” was #1 on the pop charts the moment I popped ONTO the hospital chart,…
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If I need some music for the afterlife, these are the albums I want to bring with me.
Midnight Oil’s “10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1” is an Album I Want To Be Buried With
It’s the spring of 1983, and I’m finishing up my sophomore year at Hamilton College. The running joke at Hamilton was that if you wanted to find Chuck Miller anywhere on campus, look first at the campus radio station, then at the college computer center, and then after that if you haven’t found him, he…
Read MoreABC’s “The Lexicon of Love” is an Album I Want to Be Buried With
During the early 1980’s, I enjoyed listening to a ton of British new wave and new romantic pop music, and a pop group whose music sneaked up on me and caught my attention was the band ABC. With soulful lyrics from Martin Fry and production work by Trevor Horn and the members of Art of…
Read MoreUB40’s Labour of Love is an Album I Want to be Buried With
I want to tell you the story of how this album came to join the rest of the playlist that I wish to take with me to the next world. As a Hamilton College student in the early 1980’s, I was fortunate to spend my time with the campus radio station, WHCL. During my time…
Read MoreAllan Sherman’s “My Son, the Folk Singer” is an Album I Want to Be Buried With
I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I think there’s room in the casket for this classic LP. I believe it was back in 1978, when I was living in the Chestnut Prison (the colloquial name for the four-month period when I lived with my father and stepmother in Massachusetts) that I…
Read MoreThe Electras is an Album I Want to Be Buried With
I can understand if you’ve never heard of the Electras. It’s not like they ever had any Top 40 hits. There’s only one album in their catalog, and it was recorded when the teenaged members were all in a private boarding school. But you might definitely have heard of at least one of the bandmembers. …
Read More“Tubular Bells” is an album I want to be buried with
I’m not really sure where I was the first time I heard Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. Maybe it was on the radio in a heavily edited 45 RPM version, where it was touted as the theme from The Exorcist. Or maybe it was in college, when I was a disc jockey for WHCL (88.7 fm),…
Read MoreSam Sacks’ “Sing It Again, Sam!” is an Album I Want to Be Buried With
There are vocalists in this world who have the ability to create audiophonic magic. You know of these artists. The ones with the five-octave vocal range. The ones who can hit that high note and sustain it for what seems like an eternity. The ones whose raw power and emotion can bring you to applause…
Read More“Dare” by The Human League is an Album I Want To Be Buried With
Back in November 2011, I added Heaven 17’s “Penthouse and Pavement” (UK vinyl version) to my musical afterlife playlist. Today, I want to add another classic 80’s synth-pop band to the coffin collection. That, of course, is the album “Dare” by The Human League. I first discovered The Human League back in 1981, when I…
Read MoreLogan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club, “Goodbye, My 4-Track” is an Album I Want To Be Buried With
I can totally understand if you’ve never heard of Logan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club. That’s fine. I can also understand if you’re not into the music that is often played on the Dr. Demento Show. That’s okay, too. But you definitely need to take a listen to this LP. And you also need…
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