Category: Record reviews
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New location, same great prices
Last week, we celebrated my birthday (the best day of the year) by taking our lucky dog Lucky on his first hike: Lookout Mountain! Left to right: Run-DMSteve, Lucky, Mount Hood Lucky enjoyed being out in the wild. You’d think he was an animal or something. At midday we rested…
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Hillary Clinton explained
Mr. Wm Seabrook holds down the U.K. desk for Run-DMSteve Worldwide. He’s performing within acceptable parameters, despite his occasional musical lapses (Béla Bartók). In response to my last post about things I have lived long enough to see (which I wrote the day after Hillary Clinton became the Democratic Party’s…
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It was hot enough in Portland today to melt Donald Trump’s orange face paint
Astounding songs on atrocious albums, part 1 The Zombies, Odessey and Oracle (1967) Britpop Invaders The Zombies have reunited! They’ve recorded a new album. They went on tour. They came to Portland! I considered going until I read that they had hired extra musicians so they could play their final…
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Alarmed
Electric Folklore Live The Alarm 1988 If in 1988 you had wanted to make a movie about U2’s early years, you could’ve hired The Alarm to play them. They were Welsh, not Irish, but they were all inspired by The Clash and were intensely righteous. The Alarm sounded like U2.…
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Almost famous
Boomtown David + David 1986 David Baerwald and David Ricketts were Californians with musical roots in Bruce Springsteen’s The River. They called themselves David + David on Boomtown, their only album. David Baerwald and David Ricketts should not be confused with David Whitson and David Phillips, two Texans who also…
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