Category: Music

Yellow Submarine Returning To Theaters

To celebrate the 50th anniversary! This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I’ve see it at least twenty times and still love it completely. For all ages to enjoy too.


In Case Of Fire…

In case of fire, rescue my records. And CDs. And tapes. And music memorabilia. And anything else that has to do with music.


Do you Ever Feel Like This?

Do you ever feel like this? I do.


Our Latest 21 Music Items

Here is the latest music update. Some of these were new, some were used, most were cheap, a couple were free, and of course some were for the wife and/or kid (you’ll see). The CDs are first, then a cassette, then the vinyl after. Click on the “read more” link to see the whole post. Do you love any of these? Hate any of them? Or are you just confused?

Read all the way to the end and then leave me a comment!

ARTIST – TITLE – FORMAT – SIZE – COUNTRY – COMMENTS
Byrne, David – American Utopia CD 5 US
Harrison, Dhani – In///Parallel CD 5 US
XTC – Black Sea CD 5 UK CD + Blu-Ray
TC&I – Great Aspirations CD 5 UK Autographed – Terry Chambers & Colin Moulding from XTC
St. Vincent – Masseduction CD 5 US

Our Latest 25 Music Items

Here is the latest music update. Some of these were new, some were used, most were cheap, a couple were free. The CDs are first, the vinyl after, click the “more” link. Do you love any of these? Hate any of them? Or are you just confused?

Read all the way to the end and then leave me a comment!

ARTIST TITLE FORMAT SIZE COUNTRY COMMENTS

Beatles, The – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band cd 5 US – Super Deluxe Edition 4CDs, 1DVD, 1Blu-Ray

Lorde – Melodrama cd 5 US

Ward, ZZ – The Storm cd 5 US

Depeche Mode – A Broken Frame cd 5 US


Pictures From The 2017 Seattle And Bumbershoot Trip

Hello again, family, friends, and everyone else. The pictures from our 2017 trip to Seattle and the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival (and much more!)  are now online! We had a great time and so did our friends. Take a look at the pictures!

If you are thinking of going in 2018, let me know!

If you have any questions, just ask. And leave a comment if you want….

2017 Seattle and Bumbershoot photos

What we did on the 2017 trip – part 1

What we did on the 2017 trip – part 2


The 2017 Seattle And Bumbershoot Trip – Part 2

Wait! You should read part one first.

Already did that? Then let’s continue with our Seattle and Bumbershoot trip for 2017.

Monday September 4th


The 2017 Seattle And Bumbershoot Trip – Part 1

It’s our annual trip to Seattle for the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival. We go every year, since 2001, making this our 17th year in a row. And we love it more than ever. This year our granddaughter Josephine went with us again. Also traveling, our friends Cal, Laura, Marie, Mama O, Aunt Sam, and Margaret.

I’ll post some pictures soon, but first, here’s what we did on our trip.

Thursday August 31st


The Wisdom Of John Lennon


Lots Of Video On My YouTube Channel

I go to concerts. Sometimes I record some of the songs on video. Check it out, maybe even subscribe!

https://www.youtube.com/user/mystevenology/videos


The Book I Read: Complicated Game – Inside The Songs Of XTC By Andy Partridge And Todd Bernhardt

So many great songs. Andy wrote most of XTC’s songs and they are one of the best bands ever. This book takes about 30 of his XTC songs ands discusses them at length. In doing so, it provides a wealth of insight into his creative songwriting process.

“I like accidents. I like to put myself in the way of musical harm. I like being at the wheel of that musical car, and aiming it at the wall, just to see what shape the car’s going to come out. It might come out an interesting shape that would have taken me forever to decide on otherwise. – Andy Partridge”

And don’t just believe me, here’s what Amazon has to say:


Our Latest 45 Music Items

Here is the latest music update. Some of these were new, some were used, most were cheap. The CDs are first, the vinyl after, click the “more” link. Do you love any of these? Hate any of them? Or are you just confused?

Read all the way to the end and then leave me a comment!

ARTIST – TITLE – FMT – SIZE – CTRY – COMMENTS
Michaelson, Ingrid – It Doesn’t Have To Make Sense – CD – 5 – US –
McMahon, Andrew In The Wildeness – Zombies On Broadway – CD – 5 – US –
Prince – Prince4Ever – CD – 5 – US –
Prince – The Symbol And The Girl – CD – 5 – US – Bootleg
Chvrches – Every Open Eye – CD – 5 – US –
Garbage – Strange Little Birds – CD – 5 – US –
Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface – CD – 5 – US – CD-R
Eisley – I’m Only Dreaming – CD – 5 – US –
Spektor, Regina – Remember Us To Life – CD – 5 – US –
Bowie, David – Stage – CD – 5 – US –
Bowie, David – PNE Live Rehearsal 1976 – CD – 5 – US – Bootleg
Bowie, David – The Year Of The Spiders – CD – 5 – US – Bootleg
Sia – This Is Acting – CD – 5 – US – Seven bonus tracks
Hart, Beth – Fire On The Floor – CD – 5 – US –
Stirling, Lindsey – Shatter Me – CD – 5 – US – CD-R
Stone, Allen – Radius – CD – 5 – US – Seven bonus tracks
Lennon, John – Your Daddy’s Here – CD – 5 – US – Bootleg
Beatles, The – Strawberry Fields Forever – CD – 5 – US – Bootleg
Beatles, The – Alternate Sgt. Peppers – CD – 5 – US – Bootleg
Oingo Boingo – Forbidden Boingo Volume One – CD – 5 – US – Bootleg
Oingo Boingo – Forbidden Boingo Volume Two – CD – 5 – US – Bootleg
Soundtrack – Lazarus – CD – 5 – US –
Cure, The – Disintegration – CD – 5 – US – 3-CD deluxe version


Terrific Tunes For Tuesday – Take 67

One of my favorite bands is XTC, as some of you know. They did a couple side projects back in the day, masquerading as the psychedelic band “The Dukes Of Stratosphear”. The alter-ego band was comprised of Sir John Johns, The Red Curtain, Lord Cornelious Plum, and E.I.E.I. Owen…

Here’s what Andy Partridge, leader of XTC, had to say about this tune, a sort-of homage to The Beatles “I Am The Walrus”:

We dressed up in the gear, and we had a dummy piano painted in psychedelic swirls, and just made every pop promotional film from 1967 all together in one film. Including this cod Pathe News voiceover at the start which said (plummy newsreel voice) “Here we see Chittingfold House, home of the Frobisher-Harrises since 1667. Some three hundred years later, the English pop group The Dukes of Stratosphear have decided to perform their latest pop recording, ‘The Mole From The Ministry’.” And then it went into this piece of cod. And we were so happy with it, cause it was the only video to that date where we’d had total input and we’d been listed to instead of, oh no, we’re gonna do it my way instead. Cause that always happened on our videos, we just had to shut up and do as we were told. But that one came out great. And then Virgin Records said no, we’re not going to spend any money on it. We said, look, it already exists! You just pay two thousand pounds to the BBC and you can buy it from them! And they wouldn’t do it. So there is a video in existence — it’s quite long, it’s about five minutes long. . .

 

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TERRIFIC TUNES FOR TUESDAY – TAKE 66

It’s called “Is This Tainted Love?” This mash-up is the classic Soft Cell song mixed with some Bob Marley. No, really. Check it out. There’s not really a video but the mash-up is fun.

 

Other music by Bob Marley | Soft Cell

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