Sunday, May 26, 2024

No Hesitation Goes Unremarked By Horn-Blowing: "The Last Farewell" by Roger Whittaker

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It is sometime in the second half of 1975, and the jukebox at Graceland is a talisman to remind the singer that other lives, including his, ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Pieces Of A Hazy Rainbow: "Misty" by Ray Stevens

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  The talk at the moment is all about country music, and if you grew up in the West Central Scotland of the seventies, it was country, not r...
Monday, January 9, 2023

It's Never Too Late To Change Your Mind: Tammy Jones: "Let Me Try Again"

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If hauntology is to mean anything, then it must involve something from the present coming back to haunt the past, and it therefore incidenta...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

DO IT!: Van McCoy: "The Hustle"

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  There is nothing quite like waking up to frankly miserable weather/news only to hear about it and then be thrown by an overly upbeat annou...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Why Cry When You Can Dance? : “I Wanna Dance Wit Choo”: Disco Tex and His Sex-O-Lettes/ “Try To Remember/The Way We Were”: Gladys Knight and the Pips

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“Nostalgia has always been a bit of a bunko scam.”  David Rakoff   The current situation has made people nostalgic, but what is it they are...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Maximal to Minimal: Minnie Riperton: "Lovin You"

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Now I feel we have reached a song that divides people to this day – is it good? Is it unbearably twee and girly and yuck? Certainly the la...
Monday, November 9, 2020

Animal Crackers pts. 2 and 3: The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog: "Fox On the Run" Sweet and "Love Me Love My Dog" Peter Shelley

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For the foreseeable future I am going to have to speed up some here at MSBWT in order to get out of the emotional ditch known as ‘the mid-7...
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