Big Sky – The Kinks- Song of a Baker – Screaming Trees
- Back to the Lake – Guided By Voices
- Enjoy the Silence – Nada Surf
- You Were So Warm – The Dwight Twilley Band
- Warm Self Sacrifice – Emitt Rhodes
- Strangers Getting Stranger – Dawes
- Maidstone – Squeeze
- I’ll Cry Alone – The Flamin’ Groovies
- I Found a Reason [demo] – The Velvet Underground
- Black Star – Gillian Welch
- The Death of You and Me – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
- My Mistakes Were Made For You – The Last Shadow Puppets
- You Put Something Better Inside Me – Rod Stewart
- Heavy Church – Three Dog Night
- A Quick One, While He’s Away [live] – The Who
- The Postcard – Stephen Duffy
- Rainbow Connection – Willie Nelson
September Playlist
The Blind Faith of Early Rod Stewart
My father was once quoted as saying, “My entire career I’ve tried to convince people that they don’t have free will… So far I haven’t convinced a single one.” That’s sometimes how I feel about Rod Stewart. I’ve written about him before, but alas, I don’t think it sunk in. Would it help to mention […]
A Momentary Lapse of Reason(ing): Arguments, Justification and Good News
Have you heard of The Argumentative Theory of Reasoning? It is a recent breakthrough in the study of cognition, and a theory we can really get behind. Essentially an attempt to answer the question, why are human beings so good at reasoning in some areas and so bad at it in others? The researchers, who […]
5.5. Covers in Remembrance of John Lennon
A couple days late of the 30th anniversary of his death, but with added feeling: 1. Jealous Guy – The Faces. Rockin’ Rod and crew proved their impeccable taste in solo-Beatles when they followed up their brilliant cover of “Maybe I’m Amazed” with an equally brilliant version of “Jealous Guy”: 2&3. Come Together. One of […]
Maybe Rod Stewart Is Amazed By The Groom Still Waiting At The Altar
If you’re not a Rod Stewart fan, that’s understandable. Lord knows the man has given even his most faithful followers plenty of reasons to jump ship over the years, the least of which being his recent reinvention as Tony Bennett, Mach II. Greil Marcus once proclaimed, perhaps a little unfairly, that “no one in the […]
September Playlist
1. Human Wheels – John Mellencamp 2. Love Is Stronger Than Death – The The 3. Lost Coastlines – Okkervil River 4. So Begins Our Alabee – Of Montreal 5. He Doesn’t Know Why – Fleet Foxes 6. Amoreena – Elton John 7. Sweet Forgiveness – Bonnie Raitt 8. All This Time – Sting 9. […]
