Welcome back to another edition of Mellow Gold goodness, sissies! I’ll be honest – when Jefito suggested I start a series about Mellow Gold, I was skeptical. I wasn’t sure…
I’m a bad man. If you want to know why, just head over to Py Korry’s place and see/hear what I did to him this weekend.
What I’m reviewing at Bullz-Eye this week… Vince Gill’s These Days : (”Whether you like country music or hate it, if you love music, you’d do well to grab a…
Was marrying Heather Mills the most embarassing thing Paul McCartney ever did? Unfortunately, no. And this didn’t help matters any: So, is that the most cringe-inducing “Wacky Celebrity Cameo” video…
Welcome back to this week’s CHART ATTACK! We had quite the backlash with last week’s entry from 1989, so I went back nearly a decade for this week’s chart: November…
Tim Finn – Horizon from Imaginary Kingdom (2006)Chris Whitley – All Beauty Taken From You In This Life Remains Forever from Reiter In (2006)Lou Reed – I’m So Free from…
Fiction Factory is one of those bands whom I’ve always read about since they came and went in the early ’80s, but never actually heard until a few years ago….
Welcome back, mellow miners, to another week of Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold! I thought that I wasn’t going to have time to write your MG post this…
Lordy, lordy. Two days and no posts? What’s gotten into me? Well, work, mostly. If you’re interested in knowing what it is I do on a typical Monday, here it…
Can’t do one without doing the other, I suppose. After seeing massive success with her debut solo album, “Belladonna”, Stevie Nicks settled into more regular pattern of releasing solo works…
Here’s what I’m reviewing at Bullz-Eye this week: Enigma’s A Posteriori : (“It isn’t bad, necessarily, but why in the world does anybody need more than one Enigma album? There…
Stop what you’re doing and head over to Lost in the ’80s. This is good advice on a regular day, but today, oh wow, our friend John has some great…
Aha! Bet you didn’t think there was going to be a Bootleg City today, didja? This actually would have been up much sooner, but uploads were a monstrous pain in…
Some shit you can’t make up. TRACK LISTING:Frosty The Snowman Silver Bells Happy Holiday Merry Christmas Baby White Christmas Here Comes Santa Claus God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Santa Claus…
This week’s Chart Attack! is dedicated to my buddy Raz. Raz has hated just about every post I’ve done with the exception of Chart Attack! #2, because it covered a…
An alarm clock rings starting from the right speaker, crossing over to the left, then back and forth. A chorus of Lindseys intones “I want you” in a robotic monotone…
Schnitzel – Southbound Freight (2005)purchase this album (CD Baby) Okay, so first of all, let’s state the obvious: Schnitzel needs to change its name. Outside of maybe making them a…
Pardon my French, but holy fucking shit: I finally think YouTube is cool essential. Bravo to you, D. Sticker. Bravo, sir! (If you’ve never heard, or heard of, The Shaggs…well,…
Welcome back to another edition of Mellow Gold, fellow wussies! (Wusses? Wussies? You get my point.) This week we’re going to cover two Legends Of Mellow Gold. Artists who damn…
Brett Dennen – So Much More (2006)purchase this album (Amazon) Does Dualtone ever release a bad album? Seriously. If you aren’t sampling the label’s wares on at least a semi-regular…
It’s been awhile since I wrote anything in-depth on politics, for the same reason Captain Video! has taken his sweet-ass time coming back from the 1980th Dimension Á¢€” those posts…
I was all set to run a post on Sting’s “All This Time” cassingle a couple of weeks ago, seeing as how it contains a non-album B-side (“I Miss You…
As promised, here’s what I’m doing for Bullz-Eye this week. Click the links to read the full articles. A review of the new movie Conversations with God: (”This is a…
I’ve read a couple of embarrassingly flattering posts at other blogs this week about my recent decision to relax the posting schedule here, which leads me to believe I should…
Welcome back, boys and girls, to another week of CHART ATTACK! This week, we tackle October 29, 1983: a strong week in general (no covers!) and a particularly good week…
Welcome back, Mellow Miners! So here’s a conversation I had with my 20 year-old brother this weekend. Ryan: Are you ever going to post anything other than Mellow Gold? Jason:…
Yep, I’m aware that the downloads aren’t working. Seems our file host has a bone to pick with us all of a sudden. I’m guessing today’s traffic surge might have…
Rubber Rodeo Á¢€” Á¢€Å“Anywhere With YouÁ¢€ Robin Gibb Á¢€” Á¢€Å“Boys Do Fall In LoveÁ¢€ Nolan Thomas Á¢€” Á¢€Å“YoÁ¢€â„¢ Little BrotherÁ¢€ (a definite must-see) Hunters & Collectors Á¢€” Á¢€Å“Throw Your Arms…
Welcome back to another edition of CHART ATTACK! This week, I’m covering my favorite year of the ’80s. So let’s take a trip back, shall we, to October 22, 1988,…
I’m sorry, where were we? Oh, that’s right, we were talking about xylophones. The Romantics were a power pop group that had a brief flirtation with the Top 50 in…