Hang on to your precious lil’ mining hats, my mellow friends: today we’re going deep, deep into the mines. How deep? Deep enough that the song we’re covering never came…
Music
Schoolhouse Rock – Do the Circulation from Schoolhouse Rock (1996)The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – It’s All Over Now (with Dr. John) from Voodoo (1987)Randy Newman – Shame from Bad…
There’s a memorable quote from the famously awful movie Showgirls where choreographer (I think? The movie never explains what it is he does) Marty Jacobsen describes our heroine’s dancing talent:…
Happy Friday, everybody! It’s time for another fun-filled edition of CHART ATTACK!, this time from one of those weeks where I heard every one of these songs on the radio…
With the Great Strides walk this weekend, the idea of writing about one of my basement songs almost became overwhelming. For some unknown reason I place a burden on myself…
Tall Stories – Tall Stories (1991)purchase this album (Amazon) I should have done this post months ago, when it was announced that Steve Augeri was leaving Journey and being replaced…
Robert GÁƒ¶rl may be remembered by some as the drummer/keyboardist for German industrial band DAF (short for Deutsch-Amerikanische Fruendschaft or German/American Friendship), but more people may remember him as an…
Will Harrison – A Place Called Home (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby) “Send my love to Carolina / ‘Cause in my mind, that’s where I’ll be,” sings Will Harrison on…
Welcome back to another week of Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold! Before I get started – anybody see The Simpsons a couple of weeks ago, where Homer becomes…
Nick Cave – Pinery Boy from Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys (2006)Mark Knopfler – Boom Like That from Shangri-La (2004)Antlerand – Rows Of Unbending Lines from Branches…
Hooray! I didn’t think it’d be possible to churn this out for today, but right after writing that “Chartless” post, I had the idea that maybe I could take a…
As those of you who regularly visit Kurt’s place are already aware, he decided to hang up his cleats this week. Aside from being an overall crappy thing, this left…
What do you get when you cross one of the most important bands of this era with a British punk/folk poet singing a moving, tragic love song that is nearly…
It was the largest single gathering of goths, punks and alterna-kids to that point in Northeast Ohio. It was Lollapalooza before Lollapalooza. It was the 1987 triple-bill tour of New…
Corey Hart- Bang! (1990)purchase this album (Amazon) To most Americans, Corey Hart is a long-forgotten relic of a distant, silly past Á¢€” sort of like the keytar, only with more…
So. Apparently you guys weren’t on board for last week’s selection, “Couldn’t Get It Right.” Hell, you were even skeptical that there was any cowbell in the song at all….
Head over to Jefito today to catch part one of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Squeeze, co-written by yours truly.
First things first: Happy Birthday to Jefito! Jeff is, as you know, my gay somewhat heterosexual musical lifemate. He inspired this site, he designed this site, and he writes the…
[Jefito’s Note: This week and next, I’m proud to be Idiot-ing alongside John from Lost in the ’80s. Aside from being one of this site’s earliest and most steadfast champions,…
Hi everybody, and welcome back to CHART ATTACK! It’s true: I turned 30 on Wednesday. (See my Pablo Cruise t-shirt??) I thought it’d be fun to see what songs were…
For those of you who frequent this blog, you know that the music of Bruce Springsteen has meant a great deal to me throughout my adult life. His 1987 masterpiece,…
Follow the bouncing ball, kids! From Malchus comes word that Crowded House is streaming a track from its forthcoming album, Time on Earth, at its official site. Malchus’ tip led…
Yeah, they did more than that song… Buggles (no “The”, please) began as a trio, featuring future super-producer Trevor Horn, future Asia keyboardist Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley, who would…
Layabout – Suburban Legend (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby)Review by Jamie LyonLayabout is a Los Angeles-based jazz/pop trio founded by keyboardist and vocalist Edward “Tex” Miller and his partners John…
Hey, hey! Wednesday’s here! And that means that it’s time to review the wimpiest music on the planet! We do it every week here on Adventures Through The Mines Of…
[Jefito’s Note: I was all set to write this myself, honest I was Á¢€” and then Jeff Ash, proprietor of the frequently wonderful AM, Then FM, made the mistake of…
Greetings to everyone surfing over from Jefito today – welcome and please, pull up a seat. Seriously, you’re gonna wanna sit down for this one. And don’t judge me. We’ve…
During the ’90s, as many of you know, I ran a record label which, aside from releasing my own vanity recordings, helped birth a few albums by artists whose work…
Jorma Kaukonen – No Demon from Stars in My Crown (2007)Stan Getz – For Jane from The Song Is You (1969)Paul Westerberg – Knock It Right Out from Mono (2002)David…