Howdy, and welcome back to another Friday edition of CHART ATTACK! The week we’re attacking this time ’round is a bit depressing – 60% ballads, with only one of them…
The Greenberry Woods – Rapple Dapple (1994)purchase this album (Amazon) Now this is more like it. It may not seem like it, but this album is the kind of thing…
Straight outta Austria, Falco (aka Johann “Hans” HÁƒ¶lzel) is best known on these shores for “Rock Me Amadeus”, one of the more deranged hits in a decade filled with strange…
Welcome back to another week here at Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold, where I have the inexplicable need to mention the name of the series at the beginning…
The Doobie Brothers – Wheels Of Fortune from Takin’ It to the Streets (1976)Squirrel Nut Zippers – Memphis Exorcism from Hot (1996)Adam Ant – Ants Invasion from Kings of the…
…to this… Sometimes the easiest ones are the best.
Oh, 1984. I can’t stay away from you for very long. I love you too much. And you looked pretty good this week – June 9, 1984, to be exact!…
Duane Dolieslager – The Opposite of Optimist (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby) As eagle-eyed readers of this space may have noted, starting some weeks ago, I began running record reviews…
Bonham – The Disregard of Timekeeping (1989)purchase this album (Amazon) Given the three lousy comments that last week’s Cutouts Gone Wild! on Tall Stories got, I’m going to assume we…
I have some great news. After only a week posted on the iklipz website, “King’s Highway” was chosen as the “Film of the Week”. Above is a screen capture of…
Chris & Cosey’s single about two cheating lovers on the sly was a pleasant pop surprise/sellout considering their prior musical pedigree as members of the early industrial combo Throbbing Gristle….
Justin Branam – Words Worth Mentioning (2006) purchase this album (CD Baby) It’s February 1996, and I’ve got the hots for this girl who happens to be a big Jars…
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…
Those of you who have been keeping track of the multi-blogging fundraising sensation that is Bloggers for a Cure may already know this, but yesterday marked the end of our…
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…
mental_floss reminds us that Mister Rogers was too good for this planet; AM, Then FM pays a visit to the Southside, draws the line between Steppenwolf and Superfly, then breaks…
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…
Fear has gripped me for the past year. I’ve been afraid to take a simple risk for fear my work may get rejected and ridiculed. I have feared that should…
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…