Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
04 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: new york groove, sweet
Sweet: “New York Groove” (2020)
First a UK top tenner for glam rockers Hello in 1975, then covered by Ace Frehley in ’78, this chestnut is given a bit of a mashup treatment from Ballroom Blitzers Sweet.
The familiar chorus dovetails with Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” with surprisingly successful results.
From their pandemic-referential Isolation Boulevard, which also plays on the title of their 1974 hit LP Desolation Boulevard.
01 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: abba
01 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: vinyl, vinyls
(via Variety.com) by Jem Aswad
One day last summer, while showing off his new apartment, my son pointed to his roommate’s impressive crates of albums and said, “Look at all of those vinyls!”
“Don’t you ever say that word again!” my wife and I thundered in mortified parental unison, as if he were a five-year-old who’d just dropped an f-bomb. “They’re records — or albums, or just vinyl. But for the love of God, they’re never, ever ‘vinyls.’”
“Whatever,” he grumbled, as his roommates laughed…
Read more: Learning to Be OK With ‘Vinyls’ – Variety
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