Hollywood Steve Huey

If anyone’s interested in saving the US Entertainment Industry, here’s what we need:
- Anti-Trust Enforcement
- Bring Back Fin-Syn
- Trust Creative Execs Over Algorithms
- Ban David Zaslav

YouTube video by Billscustomsounds William Merz Johnny Horton Battle Of New Orleans (HQ Stereo) (1959)

youtu.be/mjXM6x_0KZk?...

translating this in indie terms: each baseball team has 10 johnny marrs and 16 morrisseys but you root for the smiths as a whole

This is why I need the qualifier "SWEET Wizard Rock"

Well Donald Fagen at least has a sense of humor about it, lol

Also an accurate predictor of the contents!

Sonically speaking, there is a LOT of crossover there, haha

Repulsion is often tagged as grindcore, so I left them out (hoping that's a second article, lol)

133. Hobbit Metal

Also just in time for Halloween, my next captained episode of BEYOND YACHT ROCK 2000 delves into a genre we all know exists: HOBBIT METAL
open.spotify.com/episode/1whu...

The Albums That Invented Death Metal Explore the origins of death metal with these essential albums, featuring genre-defining classics from Death, Morbid Angel, Obituary, and more.

My first piece for Discogs is up just in time for Halloween! THE ALBUMS THAT INVENTED DEATH METAL

I've never been a big Bone Thugs fan but also it says this video is not available in my country, for some reason

You will be shocked to learn that Richard Marx doesn't really care for the term "yacht rock" either!

The greatest rap in the history of rapping!! (I learned a number of years later that he ripped off the best line from Rakim)

"Waiting for a Star to Fall" by Boy Meets Girl

"The Look" is another CERTIFIED BANGER

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And yeah I'd put "Take Me Home" up there too, both are hugely underrated in his catalog

Co-written with actual Motowner Lamont Dozier!

one of the greatest bridge sections in pop!

still bonkers to think that Bill Champlin had the lead vocal on Billboard's #1 song of 1989 and still virtually nobody outside of yacht-rock fandom knows who he is

especially not my favorite song of hers, a perfect of-the-era pop power ballad

Yep and that was the husband-and-wife songwriting team who also did "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"

Counterpoint: 80-90% of these songs do, in fact, rule ("Waiting for a Star to Fall" in particular is a BANGER)

heard a Steely Dan song on those big movie theater speakers

(6) This idea that democrats should abandon trans people and immigrants and climate change (in 2025!) is just unconscionably dumb.

Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.

Try standing for something. See how it feels.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

It's so funny that "blue eyed soul" is a genre. "It sounds different when a white person sings it!" (And it does! It totally does)

The Moisés Ballesteros call-up by the numbers The Cubs’ 21-year-old catcher debuted at Wrigley Field this week

Keep an eye out for the Cubs' Moises Ballasteros! Up and coming chonky boy

I think you'll be happy with your choice!