Addicted To Vinyl

Any Tonic fans in the house?
I’ve been listening to Tonic’s second album Sugar a lot this week. It’s probably my favorite from the three albums that they’ve done, (so far?) and I feel like they often got the short end of a stick as a band. Take a look at their three albums, […]

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I wrapped up the week freshly reunited with an old friend. Gregor over at captain’s dead caught my eye with MP3s of one of my favorite KFOG-FM/ San Francisco broadcasts, a 1996 session with Paul Westerberg recorded at Fantasy Studios.
This particular broadcast is a nice little one hour Westerberg career rundown that […]

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Appropriately enough, it’s snowing here in Cleveland this morning…
Snow in a soulless city covers up the cracks in the road
As a wastrel buys her cigarettes and wipes her pretty nose
Like a part-time Elvis imitator these streets I knew so well
Have been pasted beyond recognition with a temporary smell
Now the midnight train eases out leaving everyone […]

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A drunk, an atheist and a poet walk into a bar. They’re all the same guy, and there is no punchline. Welcome to Del Amitri!
And so begins the long overdue Popdose Guide to Del Amitri, written by David Eastman.
I’ve had a Del Amitri post brewing since a stray mention caught the attention of site regular […]

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David Wilcox - Mango (live in Utah)

Talkin’ ’bout old love…….and “found songs.”

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Find Your Own Way Home is the name of the latest CD from veteran Illinois classic rockers REO Speedwagon. And the album is also the unlikely source of inspiration that led me through what would be an important period of personal exploration in 2007.
I purchased the CD as part of a “can’t […]

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“For in this darkness, love can show the way”
Singer/songwriter David Wilcox (not to be confused with the Canadian rocker) has been a longtime favorite of mine. I first came across his music in 1991, and was captured by his CD titled Home Again, which had the subtext title of “for the first time.” […]

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I have more than the occasional random thought, and I’m going to share one of them with you now.
First of all, before I get to that, this post is Death Cab for Cutie related, and related to that, you’d probably be interested to know that Death Cab recently recorded a live session for […]

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Relationship songs - you gotta love ‘em. At least I do, because as long as I can remember being a music fan, I’ve been a huge fan of the “love gone wrong” songs. Not because I had gotten my heart stomped on a million times at that point, but because it caught my ears as […]

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originally posted on my Myspace on 6/8/07
In my mind I can’t imagine
How the world has come to me
And in my heart I can’t detach
The feeling that it couldn’t be
And no, I don’t want to kiss you
Don’t want to miss you if you go away
I’ll fake it don’t want to make it
Don’t want to feel another […]

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