Apropos of Nothing

On the face of it, there may not be a sport less suited to "the Olympic ideal" than golf.  But that ideal - the "purity...

Ten years ago today, I started this here blog called "Stuff Running 'Round My Head."  It wasn't called that at first.  A...

I remember exactly what I was doing the night I bought Hotel California.  It was in December 1976, probably about a week after the album ...

My introduction to The Cars came during a late Summer concert in August 1978, when they were the opening act on a concert bill that also ...

With last weekend’s viewing of “The Revenant,” I’m completely caught up (at long last) with last year’s Oscar nominees for Best Picture. ...

If you sit down and think about the albums that came out in 1981, "The Blasters" is probably not going to be one that comes imme...

Around the time that Prince was rewriting the history of rock 'n roll in Minneapolis, there was another band from that town doing ...

The greatness of "Purple Rain" was evident upon the very first listen.  Prince had made some excellent albums before its release...

Near the end of “The Big Chill,” Jeff Goldblum is sitting and talking with Glenn Close and accurately observing something along the lines...

I’m sure that I’m not alone in this, but nearly all the music I’ve listened to (or even wanted to listen to) since the news of his death ...

"If anybody asks you, you belong to Prince." "Controversy" was the first Prince album that I obsessed over...or I sh...

In 1995, Prince released an album called "The Gold Experience." More than a decade removed from "Purple Rain," the alb...

When I was lucky enough to be invited by Jack Gallagher a couple of years ago to appear on his 5 Songs podcast, I tried to articulate my ...

You're probably going to have trouble finding someone who thinks that "It's Only Rock'n Roll" is the best Stones al...

One of my Christmas presents in 1974 was an AM/FM clock radio, on which I began my slow transition from listening almost exclusively to AM...

27:33.  That's how long the album is. Story #1:  This was another birthday present; what I really liked at the time was "Hey Ju...