And here’s where I take the risk I accuse Springsteen of refusing to take below. What I wrote about the Boss’s single ain’t bad, but it doesn’t pop, it doesn’t zing. But the P.S. positively rocks. So I’m gonna put it first: P.S. Watch this clip of Jackson Browne singing a newly-written protest song at […]

What do they call them, guilty pleasures? Recordings have finally been disconnected from careers. Did you catch Troy Carter tear SoundScan a new asshole in Friday’s L.A. "Times"? Billboard’s sales-chart tweaks not a hit with everyone You’ve got to read Bill Werde’s response, it’s priceless. ‘It’s probably smart business to make sure as many people […]

I never saw the movie. But I bought the soundtrack. Elton John was a phenomenon, that occurred while I was away experiencing the first semester of my freshman year of college. In 1970, Middlebury, Vermont was a dead zone. Not only were there no cell phones, but there was no cable TV and no DVDs, […]

Somebody e-mailed me an MP3 of "Tattoo" and it sounded positively AWFUL! All compressed, with the vocal right up front, and if I was a self-satisfied smugster I would have said it sucked. But when I listened to a higher res version via my $250 Sennheiser headphones, when I listened on my $1500 AUX speakers, […]