Anorak News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
ALAN Gold on the beatification of Nelson Mandela: Since he stepped down from the leadership of a nation with rising tides of crime and infection, his legacy can be divided between the man who ended white racist rule and the failed leader who left South Africa far worse off than when he was elected. Yet he [...]
Shades of Grey (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Beaman has tagged me. The rules:- List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other [...]
Clear Lake Reflections (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
"Thank You for Being a Friend"
Music Snobbery (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Time to check in with my search for random songs to download on iTunes. To catch you up, I had to redeem some AmEx reward points, and choose 50 songs off iTunes. What I didn't realize that it had to...
Übermilf (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Pop music is filled with people singing about their troubles. An entire genre, The Blues, is dedicated to it. Pain is a powerful emotion, and powerful emotions bring out the art, right? For the most part, I commiserate with these poor souls. Your baby done left you? Yeah, rejection sucks. You're being sent to fight and die in a war you don't believe in? Let it out, brother. Want to keep your blue suede...
Friendship Wishes for All (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Songs of love and friendship seems to have occupied a great part of music. Whether it's the traditional folk song or the contemporary pop, friends songs have won millions of hearts since when man learned to express thoughts and feelings through songs and not just words. This post is simply a list of top ten friends songs that you can try out to make your guests waltz around if you are planning to launch...
Clear Lake Reflections (Free subscription) | 12/30/2007
"Lonely Boy" <--- MP3 (Andrew Gold) Well whaddaya know, Buttercup finally got wise. What took her so long? My computer is making funny sounds. Not funny "ha ha." More like rebellious electrons objecting to who's in charge. I'm shocked, shocked at this strained whine that won't go away by blowing compressed air through the fan. I keep thinking my computer is a biological being. Just give it rest and...
The Auditorium (Free subscription) | 12/28/2007
Top 10 Albums of 2007 4. Kings of Leon - Because Of The Times (ST) Not my favourite KoL album by a long chalk, but they're a band that keep on developing their sound from the original template laid down in their debut album, "Youth and Young Manhood". People apparently call them "The Southern Strokes", but really their influences are more like The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the like....
Elie's Expositions (Free subscription) | 11/22/2007
" Thank you for being a friend , Traveled down the road and back again " - Andrew Gold " Thanks for the memories " - Frank Sinatra Happy Thanksgiving!
Queerty (Free subscription) | 11/19/2007
Did you know that Andrew Gold wrote and sang The Golden Girls theme “Thank You For Being A Friend”? We didn't either - not until about five minutes ago, anyway. Here’s Gold with his original version of the iconic song. It's longer than the sitcom's intro, but just as cheesy. After he jump: “Lonely Boy”…
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 10/31/2007
LA,Ca. - It was reported today that 70's troubadour Jackson Browne has gone into hiding after poor reviews for his performance in the lead role depicting the life of another 70's legend, Charles Bronson.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/24/2007
Sean Rowley has a lot to answer for. The BBC London 94.9 presenter's popularisation of ever-so-slightly naff records from the Seventies and the Eighties unleashed a monster and paved the way for the success of The Feeling and Mika, two of the most ubiquitous and irritating acts of the last couple of years.
westcoastmusic (Free subscription) | 09/09/2007
For the first time in over three decades original 10cc members, Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman, have reunited to record new music. Best known for such classic 10cc hits as "Rubber Bullets", "I'm Not In Love" and "Things We Do...
AM, Then FM (Free subscription) | 09/05/2007
Last month, when I went through the microfilm to research the local coverage of Elvis Presley's death, I also came across this. From late August 1977, it's a newspaper ad for Prange Way, one of a small chain of discount stores in Green Bay and elsewhere in Wisconsin. It was the budget outlet for Prange’s, which [...]
Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 08/31/2007
YOU might think it's a strange parallel universe to ours that champions hits of the past like David Cassidy, Andrew Gold and Foreigner. But it exists and it's coming to your town in the form of a new monthly residency at One Central Street.
