Category: Music

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My Latest Acquisition

One of those rare finds. Released in 1984 and still sealed in the original shrinkwrap.

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Released 43 Years Ago Today

Elton John: Blue Moves (1976)

Like many others, when  Blue Moves first came out, and for many years later, I had a love/hate relationship with this album. The sound was so different from all of Elton's previous work, and yet still so fresh. It also annoyed me no end back in the day that all four sides of the album wouldn't fit on a standard 90 minute cassette tape, requiring that you buy a notoriously thin and prone to breakage and entanglement-in-the-player 120-minute cassette.

Now, of course, I think this collection is brilliant.

Favorite tracks: One Horse Town, Boogie Pilgrim, Crazy Water, Shoulder Holster, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word, If There's a God in Heaven (What's He Waiting For?), and Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance).

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Songs From Another Life

This is a playlist that I put together a few years ago and burned onto CD as a holiday gift for my surviving friends from the 80s with whom I shared these musical memories. These songs—mostly from the mid-to-late years of the decade—in addition to the pop hits of the day, comprised the soundtrack of our lives as we transitioned from life in Tucson to life in San Francisco. It puts me in a…strange…headspace, so I don't listen to it very often, but sometimes it's just what the doctor ordered to remind me that life has not always been the psychic clusterfuck we all currently find ourselves living through.

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Taking Matters Into My Own Hands

Since HBO took their sweet time issuing an official soundtrack from last year's Sharp Objects—and then with only a meager assortment of the music used in the show—I decided to put my own together.

The task was made easier because Popsugar provided what was supposedly the definitive list of all the music used in the series' eight episodes.

So between Popsugar, the official release playlist, YouTube, and the magic of Audio Hijack and Adobe Audition, I've created my own soundtrack.

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My Latest Acquisition


Matt Drey Presents DSP: From Russia With Love (1999) (2 disk EP)

● Original Mix
● Oliver Lieb Remix
● Solar Stone Red City Remix
● Solar Stone Blue Remix

Been in love with this one since I first heard it in the early 00's on Ibiza Euphoria, but never thought to look for it on the original vinyl.

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Finally!

It seems like it took forever coming from Italy (because I chose standard shipping instead of expedited and tracked which would've cost more than the disk itself), but it finally arrived today: Madonna's Like a Virgin on clear vinyl.

I realized several months ago that for some very strange reason, I had no Madonna in my vinyl collection at all. Sure, I had every one of her releases on CD squirreled away in box in a closet somewhere, but there was no sweet vinyl.

I started rectifying that back in April with You Can Dance and of course the whole True Blue fiasco in July. I think next up will be Like a Prayer…