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Dear readers, I was going to stop at 52 Terrific Tunes. Really, I was. I swear! It was a year’s worth of Terrific Tunes, and that was already a world of great music and video. Then I saw this new video today on Facebook and it was so impressive and fun that I just had [...]
That’s right! Fifty-two weeks of Terrific Tunes, a whole year’s worth! That is some awesome awesomeness. If you want to see them all, click here. That will show you the latest 15 or so, then at the bottom of the page there will be a link to “previous entries”. Enjoy!
Meanwhile, back at the blog, today’s tune is [...]
Today’s Terrific Tune is from singer-songwriter Michael Penn (learn more, web site, learn lots more). He’s released five or six great albums of intelligent, tasty pop-rock but is still mostly unknown outside of his early hit “No Myth. But there is much more to him. And being married to Aimee Mann and being Sean Penn’s [...]
Today’s Terrific Tune is an electro-pop-funk track by LCD Soundsystem (learn more, web site). This “band” is pretty much James Murphy, founder of dance-punk label DFA Records, although on tour he adds a real band. The song is “Daft Punk is Playing at My House“, from the self-titled 2005 album. It gets a mean groove [...]
Today’s Terrific Tune music video is from a band known for it’s general weirdness and hypnotic songs. Some fans adore them, other people are baffled by their popularity. I’m somewhere in between but they do have a lot of good songs. The band is Radiohead (learn more, web site) and this is the video for [...]
This is another band I really like. But then, I wouldn’t feature them here if I didn’t, right? But I mean really. There’s something about their hypnotically catchy electro-pop beats and coolness along with the delicate vocal that just gets me on almost every song they do. With this band, New Order (learn more, web [...]
When I die, this is one of the songs that I want played at my funeral. “It’s a Dead Man’s Party, who could ask for more”? That’s right, today’s Terrific Tune video is “Dead Man’s Party” by new-wavers Oingo Boingo (learn more, web site), a great band that was led by now-film-composer Danny Elfman. They [...]
Today’s Terrific Tune is from English female singer-songwriter Kate Nash (learn more, web site). It’s from her only album so far, ”Made Of Bricks” (review). The more I listen to the album the more I like it. There’s some attitude and some great lyrics deliver in her sing/talk style. And it’s pretty catchy too. Buy it and listen [...]
Here’s a list of our recently acquired music. Remember, any item with an asterisk we’ll blame on Petra B! It’s OK, we love her! And remember, some of those might be good too! See what you think:
Prince “Superemix-3″ vinyl 12″ *
Waits, Tom “Glitter And Doom Live” 2CD
Hutchinson, Eric “Sounds Like This” CD
Bazan, David “Curse Your Branches” CD
DiFranco, Ani “Sacramento [...]
Are these really the best of 2009? Hmmmm…
As usual, I included plenty of singer-songwriter types. But there’s also some modern rock, classic rock, art-folk, polka, whatever. Maybe not too much polka now that I look at it. I’m sure there are plenty of other good albums out there that were released this year, but maybe [...]
Some of you dear readers may know that one of my favorite bands is XTC (learn more, web site, awesome fan site). I’ve collected hundreds of items by them and I like it all: the early faster stuff, the not-quite-as-early new wave and beyond, the middle more difficult stuff, the return to pop stuff, the [...]
Sadly, no Terrific Tune For Tuesday this week. Too much time, to little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.
Instead, all of us me here at the vast stevenology empire wish you a super happy holiday season! Whatever you do or don’t celebrate, and whomever you do or don’t celebrate with, it’s all [...]
Today’s Terrific Tune is from an album that was a collaborative effort from vocalist Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel, Headset and Figurine. It’s by The Postal Service (learn more, web site) from their album “Give Up“. Why are they called The Postal Service? From Wikipedia:
The band’s name [...]
Earlier this year, Blender picked the “50 Worst Artists in Music History”. Any list of the worst has got to be very subjective, of course. To Blender’s credit, there are some truly awful artists on the list. From the expected (Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Vanilla Ice, Whitesnake, Starship) to the less expected (Primus, Mick Jagger, [...]
Today’s Terrific Tune comes from the glory years of English punk, the late seventies and early eighties. But don’t let that punk word scare you. The Clash (learn more, web site) burst on to the music scene with a self-titled first album featuring a bunch of great punky tunes. But a few things set them [...]