When I get home from school I empty my pockets of the day’s accumulation: notes, paper clips, pens, etc. Sometimes I think about an interview I read with the drummer of the Rolling Stones. It was a questionnaire-type thing, a mix of serious and silly questions. One was “What do you have in your pockets?” …
Tag Archives: Music
Boogie Wonderland
Maria Mendiola, who has died aged 69, was one half of Baccara, whose Eurodisco anthem Yes Sir, I Can Boogie reached No 1 in the UK in 1977 and is claimed to be the best-selling single ever by a female duo; latterly, it had been adopted by the Scotland football team as their unofficial song …
RIPQ
Editor’s note: this post is about a British music magazine. If you think it’s about something else, take your tin foil hat back to Facebook. Last year I went into Harvard Square to look for the final issue of Q. I figured the Coop might have it. Nope. As the manager explained, magazines were sold …
March Madness
Having ordered the twins to load the car, I took a look and thought: this looks like something from a movie called The Samoan Job. The rest of the day I had this in my head: Of course, per geography, we were laden not with Samoas, but Caramel deLites. So every time I …
Ode to Billy Joe
Due to a risotto mishap, a few mornings ago I was unable to use my kettle. Well, I could have used it, but I would have had to have first scrubbed it, and I was in no mood for labor. So I walked up to the Target, where there’s a Starbucks. I went in and …
Condition
Haha. An american friend of mine thought I was singing I’m a baby sea tuna instead of “I’m on BBC2 now.” https://t.co/cP3kAMtwgK — Αλεξ Καπράνος (@alkapranos) March 24, 2020 If you’re around at 6pm Eastern, or whatever time elsewhere, do attend these listening parties. I listened to the Franz Ferdinand one last night. The Blur …
Saucy Kip
I watched the film Hired Gun, about session musicians. As this review accurately puts it, “two sorts of audience member are especially well-served here: metal heads and devotees of Billy Joel.” It kept my interest nonetheless. Certainly, in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, I was not shocked to learn that one can go directly …
Money Changes Everything
I went to a Girl Scouts meeting and learned a new song. It goes “Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold.” Then I read this in the Wall Street Journal: