Tag Archives: Portishead

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 8 — All of That Shuffling is Making Me Sick

April 2, 2009 – 10:30 am
There are a number of reasons why I may have woken up this morning feeling sick…The late-night walk in the rain I took yesterday could have been a factor. There’s the chance that I could have come into contact with that “stomach bug” I’ve seen everybody on the internets griping about for the last […]
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Listen Within Your Means

March 10, 2009 – 10:30 am
A couple weeks back I buffeted a friend with a hastily-issued remonstration regarding a Facebook status update where she urged people to write President Obama and plead the case for financially strapped college students like herself. I responded to her saying that, if anything, Obama needed to help people who could never even dream […]
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Duck vs. Eagle!!!

February 19, 2009 – 10:30 am
In spite of the fact that I’ve had to cut the blog back to just two days a week I will be doing my best to keep it diverse and cover as wide a variety and a as large a number of records as I can every week. That probably means that I’ll be […]
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Do Country Folk Think “Blog” is Short for “Bump on a Log?”

February 12, 2009 – 10:03 am
Speaking of places I do and don’t want to go—either to visit or to live for an extended period of time—you can go ahead and add “the country” to the “do not want to visit” column for me. No, seriously…I’m a city boy through and through, and being a Jew with near floor-length dreadlocks […]
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Reissues at Random, Vol. 80: Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons/Jake Holmes

February 6, 2009 – 10:30 am
When I likened Dent May to Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons in yesterday’s post about mood-altering music it reminded me of something about the vocal group…Though mostly known for motivational chestnuts like “Walk Like a Man” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry” the New Jersey-based foursome released at least one LP that was far more […]
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