Confessions of a Fanboy

History repeats itself.  The last time I wrote about Morphine, I did a callout to M.Sahm of Magic Junk Radio fame.  I’m doing it again today.
It’s fun to have comrades-in-ears.  I know when I’m in a Springsteen mood, I can call 11, Saleski, or Iguana Glen Boyd.  When I’m in U2 mode, 11 is always [...]

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I’m self-effacing and realistic enough to know none of you are particularly interested in the mundane details of my; my mundane tasks probably not all that different than your own. Rather than bore you with that, I offer my reading public a running tab on what I’ve listened to so far today:

Mark Knopfler & [...]

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Calling M. Sahm…
I’m three hours into my self-inflicted morning of misery. I finished off Knopfler and Harris. My cube — yeah, I’m a fuckin’ cube dweller — is assbiting cold today, which is a nice switch from yesterday’s 10,000 ballsweating degrees. Every temperature of every room is room temperature to me on [...]

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A lot of good stuff from yesterday, beginning with the most recent addition to the collection, Dave Matthews’ Live at Radio City. From there I did another tour through the ’90s and followed that up with a short classic rock kick.

Bartender | Matthews, Dave Band | Live At Radio City
When The World Ends | [...]

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I’ve spent too much time this week watching movies and listening to podcasts and that’s why there haven’t been too many Let’s Talk About My iPod features this week. Today was more centered on music and I finally have enough songs to warrant posting one.
Obviously Luscious Jackson, Jeff Buckley, and U2 made the big [...]

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On this day in 1999, the music world lost a unique talent when 47-year old Mark Sandman died after suffering a heart attack on stage with his band, Morphine, in Italy.
I am on a one-man crusade to rescue the word “unique,” and today’s story is one reason why. The word is overused and misused. [...]

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