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Follow along with me on this one.  It’s not unusual for two different musical groups to exist with the same band name.  But when one group takes off to superstardom and the other group simply has a couple of regional hits, well, it can be a bit interesting. Such is the case with this edition…

I’m probably going to catch a lot of heck for inflicting these songs on you. You know what? I don’t care. And I’m guessing you don’t, either. Let’s put it this way.  These songs were once big, big hits on the radio.  Yet today you don’t hear them on the oldies stations, you don’t see…

For those of you who have absolutely no clue who Ian Curtis is… shame on you.  Ian Curtis was the lead singer of Joy Division, one of the seminal punk/new wave bands of the late 1970’s / early 1980’s.  It was Joy Division that later morphed into the band New Order – you know, “Blue…

You’ve heard this a gazillion times. If you play Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” backwards, it will allegedly produce Satanic messages. And that by listening to these messages in the forward mode, the backwards messages will get into your subconscious and convince you to do things that you aren’t normally disposed to do. You know…

Here’s my problem. I get sick and tired of people griping about which Christmas songs should get crossed off the list. “Oh, I hate ‘Dominick the Donkey,’ I wish it would go away.” “Aw geez, are they playing ‘Wonderful Christmas Time’ again? Give it a rest!” “Oh no, not ‘Last Christmas’ again?” Yeah. Heard it,…

You’ve heard them on the radio from time to time – songs like “Nights in White Satin” by the Moody Blues, or “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum. It’s a song with the backing of a studio orchestra of some sort. A song where the song’s pop music sensibilities are mixed with studio…

Yes, the holidays are coming.  Thanksgiving?  Feh.  We’re talking Christmas, baby.  Jingle bells and mistletoe and all that. So with that in mind, I gathered up four different interpretations of the 1942 standard “White Christmas.”  And I leave it to you, my dedicated readers, to choose which of these four are your personal favorites. BING…

It’s amazing what you can do with a 1960’s cartoon Christmas special and several different pop songs.  Swap out the classic Vince Guaraldi “Linus and Lucy” dance theme, add in a pop song or twelve, and you get a helluva mash-up. Check these out.  Perfect for the holiday season. Every Little Thing She Does is…

In today’s Arts blog, Michael Janairo notes that although the classic Led Zeppelin song “Stairway to Heaven” has reached four decades of radio airplay, there are some who would wish the song would fade out of existence. How can anyone say that Led Zeppelin’s classic has been overdone?  I mean really, let’s devote a K-Chuck…