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Billy Joel’s Cold Spring Harbor

Monday, August 24, 2015 By Dan 5 Comments

When I was a young, extremely straight-laced and conservative mainstream kid of 12 or so, I told my parents I liked Billy Joel – and my parents, being the extremely straight-laced, conservative cheap parents that they were, bought me a budget tape of Billy Joel’s Cold Spring Harbor for Christmas. Oh, how I loathed that cassette. There I was, with dreams of Piano Man and … [Read more...]

Take a Long Line

Thursday, June 12, 2014 By Dan Leave a Comment

Wildly malevolent and featuring the kind of character you’d find in a William S. Burroughs or Hubert Selby, Jr novel, The Angel’s Take a Long Line is one of my favourite Aussie rock songs -- and after hearing that the band’s singer, Doc Neeson, passed away last week I’ve found myself unable to stop listening to it. … [Read more...]

The dark retro age of danceable desperation

Sunday, March 30, 2014 By Dan 5 Comments

Amongst the fluoro colours of the 80s there were delightful glimpses of black. While Prince prowled in purple and MC Hammer glittered in gold (and don’t get me started on his ultra-baggy pants), there were also musicians who smeared themselves in black makeup, teased their hair to Tim Burton-esq heights, and dipped themselves in tar and feathers (I’m thinking of the underrated … [Read more...]

Songs to fuel heartache and despair

Saturday, November 9, 2013 By Dan 2 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzIwfa67oSY Ah, love songs – oh, how I despise you. When you think of how disturbed, conflicted, disastrous and vicious romance so often turns out to be, it’s perverse that most love songs are light hearted, simple-minded affairs that pander to haywire hormones. Well, I’m jack of it. Perhaps I’ve had a bad year, perhaps I’m just … [Read more...]

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