Continuing my new picking whatever I want to do next approach to the Beatles songs series; today’s song is “Rain.” Yes, I’m really picking up steam. After waiting 9 months between “Hold Me Tight” to “And I Love Her” I’ve waited only 13 days to get to “Rain.” At this rate I may even finish [...]

Instead of picking up where I left off (about 9 months ago) with my Beatles songs series, I’m going to skip ahead to “And I Love Her.” I figure it’s very unlikely that I’ll ever get to all of them, so instead of going in order (and doing a lot of early songs I don’t [...]

It’s been nearly two months, but I’m finally picking up with the next entry in my series on each of the original Beatles songs. “Hold Me Tight” is #9 in the series. “Misery” was #8. This song was one of the band’s earliest originals as it had been a part of their live act from [...]

“Misery” is the 8th song in my series on the 186 original Beatles songs released from 1962 through 1970. “Do You Want To Know A Secret?” was the last entry. These first 8 songs are the 8 Lennon/McCartney originals included on The Beatles 1963 debut album, Please Please Me. This is a pretty unremarkable song [...]

“Workin’ Day and Night” is the 3rd track from Michael Jackson’s 1979 classic album Off the Wall. It’s one of three songs on the album that MJ wrote or co-wrote (along with “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” and “Get On the Floor”) and it’s one of my favorite songs on the album. It’s pretty [...]

I’m finally picking up where I left off with my rather ambitious “Beatles Songs” project (maybe a bit too ambitious, I’m not sure if I’m focused enough to ever finish it) where I take pretty detailed look at all 186 original Beatles song from “Love Me Do” to “I Me Mine” in the order that [...]

I’m just getting around to listening to Album by Girls (released on September 22, 2009) and I’ve been enjoying it a quite a bit on my first listens and in particular I’ve been loving “Hellhole Ratrace” which is track #6 and easily the longest song on Album (nearly 7 minutes long.) It’s a really beautiful [...]

This is my 6th entry in my continuing series on each of The Beatles 186 original songs released from 1962 through 1970. This song, “I Saw Her Standing There,” is my favorite of them thus far. It’s a great song, but even if it weren’t a great song it would be notable for being the [...]

This is the 5th song in my continuing “Beatles Songs” series which will eventually cover all 186 original Beatles songs from 1962′s “Love Me Do” to 1970′s “I Me Mine” (the only Beatles song recorded in 1970, it was recorded on 1/3/70 by George, Paul, & Ringo. John was out of the country.) Although, admittedly, [...]

For awhile I’ve been meaning to pick up the debut self titled CD by Monsters of Folk for awhile as I’m a pretty decent sized fan of the solo work of some of the members of this indie rock supergroup, particularly M. Ward (the band also features Conor Oberst and Mike Mognis from Bright Eyes [...]