Category Archives: Music

The Beach Boys’ Fifth Studio Album: Shut Down Volume 2

Sax von Stroheim writes: The Beach Boys’ second Hot Rod Album.

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Juxtaposin’: Les Filles de Serge

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Related Birkin talks Bardot.

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The Other Jimmie Rodgers

epiminondas writes: Ever wonder what happened to this guy…? Well here’s what happened to him…

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My Meme Master and Me

Fenster writes: I am not sure I fully buy the notion of memes as self-replicating counterparts of self-interested genes.  At least I would want to understand better the means by which those presumably selfish little idea critters hop from host … Continue reading

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Quote Du Jour

Blowhard, Esq. writes: I don’t make the mistake that high culture mongers do of assuming that because people like cheap art, their feelings are cheap, too. When people say, ‘Oh, listen, they’re playing our song,’ they don’t mean, ‘Our song, this … Continue reading

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Sounds of the Italian Crime Cinema

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Related A good source. I wrote about funky movie themes back here.

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Juxtaposin’: Starlets

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

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A Modern Recording of Mussorgsky for Disney’s “Night On Bald Mountain”

epiminondas writes: I guess Halloween is as good a time as any to take another look at the Mussorgsky piece in Disney’s 1940 film masterpiece Fantasia. However, the music score has been replaced with a modern recording. I think the … Continue reading

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Another Era

Paleo Retiree writes: The way it used to be: A more recent staging of the same tune: Fun fact: Bob Crewe, the man behind this wonderfully arousing music — as well as behind rockin’ performances by the Four Seasons and … Continue reading

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The Beach Boys’ Fourth Studio Album: Little Deuce Coupe

Sax von Stroheim writes: The first of the Hot Rod Albums. Their third album of 1963, released just a month after Surfer Girl.

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