Apropos of Nothing

From the ashes of The English Beat rose two bands - General Public, and Fine Young Cannibals.  Simply by looking at which members of the Bea...

I guess you could call this one of the great one-hit wonders, because I don't recall ever having heard another song from this band.  Hav...

When I was in the sixth grade, a couple of years after the Apollo 11 mission, my teacher told us one day that he really admired Neil Armstro...

Since I have a lot of catching up to do, this one will kill two birds with one stone.  "Harvey Haddix" is a song that belongs to s...

It's a testament to the greatness of this song that there were two equally great, but stylistically diverse, versions to assault the cha...

I said earlier I wasn't going to do this, but let's pretend for just a minute that summer has just begun...pretend that the glow fro...

In my office, I have an ESPN Sports Trivia daily calendar - one of those with a different question for each day. For Thursday, August 23 t...

I was only seven years old when this song was released, but even at that young age I knew enough to know that it was an amazing song - almos...

I have a sneaking suspicion that I might be altering the calendar a bit with this one, but even if it wasn't strictly speaking a song re...

In August 1976, I began my first job - working at McDonalds, where I would stay for the next four years, until I left Sacramento for UC Berk...

Today we're going to stick with the weekend theme of Summer 1980, and feature Peter Gabriel's great song "Games Without Frontie...

Traffic - A+ Out of Sight - A The Limey - A Erin Brockovich - A- Contagion - A- Haywire - A- Solaris - A- The Informant! - B ...

And the only thing we forgot was the popcorn. How the hell I went so many years without seeing "Out of Sight" is beyond me, beca...

The English Beat didn't have a long career, but they made the most of it.  All three of their albums were outstanding, and included enou...

"Hit single" and "Pete Townshend" are not words that you often see together in the same sentence.  Hitting the top of th...

Elvis Presley January 9, 1935 - August 16, 1977 “If love is truly going out of fashion forever, which I do not believe, then along w...