80s music
The 80s were chockful of New Wave power ballads, synthesizers, drum machines, and no shortage of Madonna and Michael Jackson.
It was a Lovely Cruise....
Like the rest of the world, I woke up Saturday morning to the devastating news that Jimmy Buffett had died. I was in shock - total disbelief. My best friend and Buffett loving sister-from-another-mother had texted to give me the sad news. Had he been ill? I wondered, mentally chastising myself for not keeping abreast of Buffett news.
Cindy CalderPublished 9 months ago in BeatRate-O-Rama: Love is the Drug
Rate-O-Rama : Songmania is a reader participation game. About once a week I will publish a Rate-O-Rama article which will feature two or three versions of a popular song.
Rick Henry ChristopherPublished 9 months ago in BeatOn the Muscle of Music
As I hobble down two flights of stairs, triceps aching and the persistent pain returning to my lower back, Tennessee Ernie Ford sings into my ear all the way to the back lane exit.
Jack FaulknerPublished 9 months ago in BeatCheeseburger in Paradise
On Christmas day 1946 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the birth of Jimmy Buffett proved a gift not only to the music industry but to the world itself.
Dana StewartPublished 9 months ago in BeatThe Edgar Allen Poelay List
This is A Playlist Infiltrated and Inspired By The Spirit of Edgar Allen Poe and a conversation with my good friend Lesley. It is on YouTube here.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 9 months ago in BeatIf You Don’t Read This …
If you don’t read this you will probably never know of these songs or these artists. People are often restricted by the media, what they grew up listening or other factors, I am the same, although Janelle Monae’s “Dirty Computer” is one of the most impressive albums I have ever heard and that is relatively recent but there will be none of that on here, this is taking you off the beaten path and down the unsigned road and I could drag in something for the #LikeNoOther series that I started on Seven Days In.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 9 months ago in BeatSeasons Of The Witch
Introduction This is a relentless but simple-to-play song which featured in the series "Britannia! and inspired a poem from me here.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 9 months ago in BeatRate-O-Rama: You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
Rate-O-Rama : Songmania is a reader participation game. About once a week I will publish a Rate-O-Rama article which will feature two or three versions of a popular song.
Rick Henry ChristopherPublished 10 months ago in BeatMusical Alphabet Letter F
Usually, we choose songs we like by the melody, the lyrics, and by the musical genre. I’m starting a series with songs from all kinds of genres going according to the alphabet. Here are songs with titles that begin with the letter F. Links will be posted below as we proceed through the ABCs. At the end, you’ll find the links to songs with titles that begin with the letters A, B, C, D, and E.
Rasma RaistersPublished 10 months ago in BeatUgly Music for Stupid People (Or Should it Be: Stupid Music for Ugly People? How the F**k Should I know?)
I'm an ugly motherfucker. So what? So FUCKING WHAT? (You got a fuckin' problem with it?) "Well I've been to Hastings, and I've been to Brighton, I've been to Eastbourne, too, so what? So what?"
Harmony of Healing
Amicability of Mending: How the Force of Music Rises above Pressure and Misery In the clamoring whirlwind of life, where stress and misery frequently cast their weighty shadows, there exists a straightforward yet strong cure - the charming enchantment of music. This story reveals the groundbreaking excursion of Sarah, a young lady troubled by the heaviness of stress and sadness, who tracked down comfort, inspiration, and freedom through the amicable notes that resounded with her actual soul.
Top Five Punk Rock Videos
I grew up listening to all the hardest mosh pit music. But as much as I loved thrash, death metal, hardcore, industrial, and what-have-you (all the music of youth misfits and outcasts, basically) my first love was always PUNK ROCK (well, I guess you could kind of consider hardcore and all those other genres as offshoots or "crossover" or, whatever). I was quite the slam dancer back in the days when I could still go and get in such a crowd and not expect to be carried to Emergency by EMTs on a stretcher.