Marc Wood

The first hour, I think, would be interesting for anyone: the Attila stuff, and how he and Elizabeth came to be together. The pictures of Billy Joel as a little boy are so amazing to see - I mean, when he was six he looked 34. (It's non-linear, so you don't see all of the earliest stuff right away.)

Colored-pencil card drawing of Weird Al

Weird Al Yankovic, 1981 Donruss, in honor of his birthday today

What is the rationale for dropping a popular request show? Does it cost more to form a playlist from online submissions (maybe the occasional phone call, idk) rather than programming further in advance?

Beavis and Butt-Head video-watching joke from 1992 becomes reality: "Right now, David Lee Roth is trying to convince some girl that he used to be the lead singer for Van Halen"

🎵 "He's not all right, everybody worried 'bout him..." 🎵

I was rooting for Milwaukee, but 3-for-3 with 3 home runs, six shutout innings and 10 strikeouts? In the first inning alone, he struck out the side and then led off the bottom of the first with a homer. The only player who could top these achievements is perhaps Ohtani himself, in the future.

YouTube video by Nine Inch Nails - Topic Just Like You Imagined

This is Track 1 - not just an absolute banger but actually an effective warmup because of the song structure

I've had a workout playlist on my phone for ~15 years named "Sweatin' to the Indies" - LCD Soundsystem, Japandroids, Bob Mould/Sugar, things of that nature. Also goth-adjacent stuff like NIN, Ministry, Front 242…

Colored-pencil card drawing of Bob Mould, David Barbe, and Malcolm Travis

Sugar, 1992 Topps style, in honor of Bob Mould’s birthday and the first new Sugar music in 30 years…

"[Any famous person], [descriptive clause about that person], ..."

No, nooooo! Oh, ok, whew...

Pretty sure the only thing "magic" about the old Chi-Chi's was that it was magically someone in our party's birthday every time we went there so we could get the free fried ice cream

This music is wonderful - thank goodness it's available on streaming

Later that same year, my dad lost his own manufacturing job of 30+ years, he semi-retired and we moved to Wisconsin, which is probably why the futility of that effort lingers in my mind over, say, Live Aid

Lennon, "The Day After", Challenger, Rock Hudson, and...

That time in jr. high when the school had a contest for the most persuasive slogan to bring a Saturn auto plant to the Quad Cities (which back then was basically Flint but for farming equipment). Somehow we failed, so it went to Tennessee.

Does the bio mention Roberta Flack? I heard they were neighbors at The Dakota.

Never gotten around to hearing WB, but I'm a huge fan of Abandoned Luncheonette - love how you can hear both of their voices (creatively, not just vocally) on the earlier records

Following this account now! I am always grabbing extra copies of records from the bargain bins to share with friends - definitely will have plenty left over for something like this

Or in case you think turntables aren't expensive enough.

And for anyone who isn't obsessed with an artist, "weeks" is fine! I think Erlewine's review helped remind me that I needed to watch the Billy Joel doc, and I did, weeks after the review, and loved it

Remembering Kirsty MacColl who would have celebrated her 66th birthday today.

That was in the Wall Street f'n Journal?! I just saw the screenshot, figured it was some third-rate nepo-blog or something

Same. I first heard about them from a girl I liked in high school. Pretty sure she was an Avalon fan, but I jumped right into Greatest Hits (covering the first 5 LPs) and couldn't have been more confounded, in a good way.

I wonder if this how Bob's Rykodisc albums (hubcap, Last Dog and Pony Show) finally ended up on streaming in the last year or so

If the NFL actually did this, Fox could reboot In Living Color and counter-program against it which would teach the NFL the same lesson they learned when Fox did it in 1992.

Formula 20, a 1984 K-Tel compilation

Side 2 of the Formula 20 K-Tel compilation (1984) featuring So. Central Rain by R.E.M.

Pop culture eras are shorter, but it still seems like a weird overlap to have an R.E.M. track appear on a K-Tel LP

Laurie Anderson Isn’t Playing Games In the artist’s studio, we played her 1995 Puppet Motel on a blue iBook G3 and talked about technology, cyberspace, and abstraction.

"In 1995, American musician and artist Laurie Anderson created a CD-ROM computer game called Puppet Motel in collaboration with artist Hsin-Chien Huang. Thirty years later, I bought a copy on eBay, along with a 1999 computer that could run it."

Laurie Anderson Isn’t Playing Games:

So back then, Monday was when big bands played the mainroom? And Fri-Sat was mostly dance nights?

*Menacingly, in Belgian accent* We're Front 242, next you have Club 241...

This is not only true for me as well (especially the "months later"), but Nate, who I've never met, is one of my prime recommenders on Bsky