Oh hello, I’m just going to drop this here for my obligatory Halloween post: I made a mix of my favorite artists and their most Halloween-ish songs for your listening pleasure! For the record, it was really difficult to not just make a list of 10 Tom Waits songs (WHAT’S HE BUILDING IN THERE??), but I had aContinue reading “Whistlin’ Past The Graveyard”
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Into the Great Wide Open
Just some miscellany for you on this fine Friday eve… 1. OK Go’s new album Hungry Ghosts officially comes out next week, but you can hear the whole thing now at Hype Machine! Thanks to pre-orders and two OK Go concerts this summer, a lot of these songs already feel like old favorites (“The OneContinue reading “Into the Great Wide Open”
Top Fives: John Entwistle Edition
Top 5 Who Songs Sung by John: –Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (I love this one so much, don’t judge) –Boris the Spider (obvi) –The Quiet One –Trick of the Light -I know it’s kind of a stretch, but A Quick One because John’s falsetto at the end is too. much. . Nikki’s Top 5 Favorite Johnfacts: -He hadContinue reading “Top Fives: John Entwistle Edition”
Lenntwistle
In high school, my AIM username was “lenntwistle”: a combination of John Lennon and John Entwistle. (I thought I was sooooooo clever. Too bad I had to explain it every time I had a conversation with someone [although let’s be honest, the only people I chatted with were band kids who were just as nerdy—butContinue reading “Lenntwistle”
Of Mods and Rockers
Tonight I’m remembering that one time I saw The Who in concert and how flipping awesome it was. Seriously one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen and probably ever will see. I’ll never listen to Quadrophenia the same way again. I’m also remembering the first time I listened to The Who. It was theContinue reading “Of Mods and Rockers”
Crushing pretty hardcore on John Entwistle right now
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Thunderfingers
Rolling Stone just released a list of reader-picked Top 10 Bassists, and I bet you know who was Number One (or, I bet you can guess since I’m posting it here)… John Entwistle, a.k.a. THE OX: More: *My Generation solo. As the top rated comment says: “Oh, am I doing a bass solo? I didn’tContinue reading “Thunderfingers”
we all shine on
Oy. School has started and now I can’t update this thing pointlessly three times a week anymore. Bummer. I missed John Day so this is my late tribute: John Lennon, Oct. 9 1940 – Dec. 8 1980John Entwistle, Oct. 9 1944 – June 27 2002 Two of the greatest! Also, one more thing from theContinue reading “we all shine on”
Number 9
It’s October 9th, you know what that means! JOHN DAY! Happy birthday to two of my favorite musicians, John Lennon and John Entwistle. J.W.L. 1940-1980 J.A.E. 1944-2002
