Category: Record reviews
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More fun than I deserve
Electric The Cult 1987 When I was younger I wanted to find a band that rocked as hard as AC/DC but that didn’t view women as subhuman breeding stock. A band that was as heavy as Led Zeppelin minus all the mystical claptrap. I don’t know if this band has…
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King me
I can’t bid adieu to Scotland without bringing to your attention the Scotch influence on one of the world’s most popular games. Not golf, Mr. Spock. Checkers. The modern history of the game we North Americans call checkers began a thousand years ago on the Iberian Peninsula, where the Moors (the…
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England forever, Scotland a wee bit longer
Weightlifting The Trashcan Sinatras 2004 In 1999, I edited a magazine for software company called Visio. One of my columnists was Dave, our Chief Technical Evangelist. Dave was a software maestro and the champion of all things Scottish. “Aye, Steve, it’s a hildy, wildy day, but I’ll wager there’ll be…
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The stars look very different today
David Bowie is dead. Why didn’t the world stand still? In 1976, I bought a Bowie album called Station to Station. It doesn’t matter what kind of music Bowie made on Station to Station or how it fits into his life’s work or that it marked the end of this…
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Comets caught in the gravitational grip of Donna Summer
The women I’m discussing this evening all came from jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel to try their luck in disco. As singers, they were well above average. Gloria Gaynor, Thelma Houston, and Patti LaBelle had the biggest voices; Candi Staton and Loleatta Holloway were the most subtle. You could’ve hired…
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