With the start of Summer coming up I think I might have found my jam for the season courtesy of the Australian band Gold Fields. I heard their song “Treehouse” on the Last Call with Carson Daly show and really loved the ode to New Wave dance music. It just sounds like summer.
A friend posted on Facebook that Blue Monday a song by the techno group New Order was released today in 1983. Thirty years ago?!? I am sooooo old. I remember when the song came out and I wanted to hear it on a loop forever – that’s how great and ground breaking it was then. It changed my taste in music for the better.
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Even more than 40 years since playing their final notes as a band, The Beatles don’t sound dated. I could listen to their music 24 hours a day. I love the usual hits like “I am the Walrus” and “Hey Jude” but I wanted to share a playlist of some of the tunes I like the most.
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I love TV show themes and was really sad when the industry started cutting back on themes in order to squeeze in more commercials. The main theme to the show “The Equalizer” (1985–1989) is probably one of the best. It was composed by Stewart Copeland, the drummer from The Police. This percussion heavy theme captures the electronic vibe of the 1980′s and is part New Wave and part house music. Here is an album version of the tune.
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When I think of Christmas I think of the music of the holiday. From the classics to the newer hits, I find the music sets me in the right mood. Here is a playlist of some of my favorite Christmas tunes. Enjoy!
I’m a geezer. I’ve loved Big Band and Swing music for a long time even before the swing resurgence in the 1990′s. I also like house music. I was wondering if the two could be merged and they can. It’s called Electro Swing which fuses swing styles with house production techniques. I really like it and you should too.
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I’m not religious myself but I can enjoy some good music of a religious nature. Religious music I like include contemporary worship music or pop songs with a religious theme. Although on occasion I can listen to something old like a Gregorian chant or something like that. Here are some of my favorite religious music from over the years.
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Whoa! Blast from the past. While looking for a different song I stumbled across Ocean Blue again. I knew I had one of their CDs from back in the day and sure enough in my Box-O-CDs I found their debut album from 1989. The first track “Between Something And Nothing” is why I bought it. It sounded like Echo and the Bunnymen and Cocteau Twins and I just found out Ocean Blue wasn’t from the UK they were from Hershey, PA
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I heard this song the other day for the first time and it blew me away. In our current autotune, over processed music it is great to hear a song performed live and it is just as great as the recorded version. In fact the entire album “Theatre Is Evil” is excellent.
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311 is in the middle of their Unity Tour to promote their tenth studio album titled Universal Pulse. The tour began on the Fourth of July and runs through September 5. 311 tickets are available for the remaining shows. Nearly all the remaining shows also feature Slightly Stoopid and SOJA.