Living with Lewy Body Dementia
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease
ALBUM: The Doors Greatest Hits (1980) MVC Rating: 4.5/$$$$ Man, what do you say about the Doors? They became a phenomenon while lead singer Jim “Lizard King” Morrison was alive and an even bigger one after he died in 1971. As Rolling Stone magazine in 1981 famously put on the cover a photo of the …
The World Party record I reviewed yesterday had a song called ‘Ship of Fools.’ I remembered I also had a song with the same name on a Robert Plant solo album, and, I had one with yet again the same name on a Bob Seger album. None of the songs on vinyl were the same …
ALBUM: Vanilla Fudge (1967) MVC Rating: 2.5/$$$$ Wow, this one is so bad it’s good. Almost. Their cover of the Temptations’ ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’ was a high charting single and is a successful use of turning an original song inside-out, making it something new and good. With it’s heavy organ sound and over-the-top …
ALBUMS: Credit in Heaven (1982); Love is the Law (1983); self-entitled (1986) MVC Rating: Credit 4.0/$$$$$; Love is the Law 4.0/$$$$; self entitled 3.5/$$$$. Some of my favorite artists are from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in cold-as-heck Minnesota: Prince, the Replacements, Husker Du, Soul Asylum and Peter Himmelman to name a few. I used to …
ALBUM: Nite City (self-titled 1977) MVC Rating: 3.5/$$$ This is better than I thought. I bought this brand new in Athens, Ga., at about 17 or 18. I heard the song ‘Summer Eyes” on the radio and then trained my ears on the DJ’s voice as he said ‘New one from Nite City, which features …
ALBUMS: Greatest Hits MVC Rating: 4.0/ $$ There are several examples of successful ‘assembled’ bands that made music, or at least pretended they were making music. The Archies come to mind; Josie and the Pussycats, the Partridge family and Spinal Tap for that matter. The Rutles were a band parodying the Beatles. I haven’t researched …
Another Monday morning. The big story is a pair of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas. On May 19, 2018 I published this poem on this blog. Still relevant: The News Today I read the news today, oh boy Who is dead. Who is not. They train for this. Active shooter drill. Lock the doors. …
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This came out today on CBS Sport.com ranking the Top 10 National Anthems. A pretty good list but two things for historical perspective and posterity need to be mentioned. Whitney Houston may have done the best version ever. Luther Vandross may be in the Top 10. Jennifer Hudson may be No. 2 behind Whitney. But …
In going through my 678 records to bring awareness for my brain disease, Lewy body dementia, I’ve come across songs that I believed should have been big hits. I’m sure you’ve done this before. Like how could that song not be a hit single? I’m going to pull a list of 12 songs from my …
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Part 1 It is the year 2525, and a storm described as ‘apocalyptic’ is barreling down on Florida and Alabama’s Gulf Coast. The TV reporters hyperventilate and exaggerate their inability to stand in a stiff breeze. But this is a big one. The biggest they say since the National Weather Service upped the gender equality …