My car stereo broke. I was eating dinner at Lisa’s, and when I emerged from her abode I turned on the defroster and I got a readout, both Sirius and XM, but no sound.  As I drove home in the intermittent rain I ran through the possibilities, after stopping and turning both the Alpine and […]

I’m sitting here listening to outtakes from Steely Dan’s "Royal Scam" reading hundreds of e-mails. I’d like to thank the community for turning me on to a brilliant track, the Ricky Skaggs/Ashley Monroe version of the Raconteurs’ "Old Enough".  You can hear it here: The Raconteurs – Old Enough and if you’re truly interested in […]

No Line On The Horizon Am I the only one who hears "Heart Of Glass" here? Unfortunately, that Blondie song was more memorable. The verse of this track sucks.  The chorus is better than anything in "Get On Your Boots", and that is good. But the reason I focus on U2 is because of the […]

"Top Yourself"The Raconteurs What made Zeppelin legendary was that the band’s music seemed to exist in a vacuum.  Sure, there were blues references, you could understand where they were coming from, but where they arrived, where they landed, was completely unforeseen.  They appeared to be the only band inhabiting this new territory, which was fully […]