I bought “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning” the day after New Orleans flooded and I didn’t listen to it for 6 months. Then, one day I was doing dishes in the kitchen and this song started playing on my computer. I let the dirty cup fall into the sink of water, sat on my bed, …
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I saw this video one time on some late night video show (MTV2?) and never saw or heard it again until one day post Katrina I was sitting in the Pub and Vj Brendan Thompson played it. I was *so excited* to finally see it again and get the name of the song. It’s still …
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This song will forever remind me of the time B-97 changed formats and played it for an entire weekend. Honestly, I don’t recall if it was when they switched TO all-talk or FROM all-talk but it will always remind me of when radio stopped being fun. Format changes, consolidations, corporate buy-outs. Meh. Best of times, …
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I give mass amounts of credit to my brothers and sister for the variety of music I grew up with. My sister Kay was all about the Rolling Stones. Sympathy For The Devil never gets old to me. I’ve listened to it hundreds of times. I sing and play air guitar along to it every …
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Wednesday was my friend Gerry’s* birthday and after a round of trivia I met him and some friends at Cobalt to experience that which is the ongoing Cobalt Idol Karaoke Contest. No, I’m not making that up. No I’m not singing — I’m more of a Pip than a Gladys Knight — but Gerry was …
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