Notes: Best Rock & Roll band of all time Best comp of all time Hot Rocks is still on the Billboard 200 as of July 2020 Opening instrumental is Shattered off Some Girls; closing instrumental is Tumbling Dice off Exile Rating: L – 9.9A – 10J – 10 Average: 9.6/10 Thanks for listening! Roxy, the …
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Notes: Ultimate Love Songs = Love Communism Richard Marx’ Right Here Waiting = Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You Come up and See Me (Make me Smile) is not by John Ford Coley & England Dan; it is by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Richard Marx : Bryan Adams :: John …
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The second edition of Rate the Comp explores The Beatles’ 1973 compilations Red (1962-66) and Blue (1967-70.) Notes: Ringo had a serious thing for the ocean It’s okay to have a single over three minutes long nowadays: “Like a Rolling Stone” paved the way for “Hey Jude” which paved the way for “American Pie” which …
The first edition of “Rate the Comp” was a success. Andrew, Joe and I tore apart a 1993 Bowie comp and used it as a lens against all other comps. Notes: Opening tracks are “South Horizon” off The Buddha of Suburbia and “Speed of Life” off Low We only talked about “Win” off Young Americans …
Leon Ferri is inviting you to a Zoom meeting. Topic: I bought a David Bowie compilation and I absolutely love it but at the same time there are a million other songs I wish were on here Join Zoom Meetinghttps://albany.zoom.us/j/6780214173 Meeting ID: 678 021 4173One tap mobile+13017158592,,6780214173# US (Germantown)+13126266799,,6780214173# US (Chicago) Dial by your location+1 …
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My shoot with Rotten UK is in the new issue of Auxiliary Mag: https://auxiliarymagazine.com/2020/04/27/the-spring-2020-issue/
View from the summit of Cascade Mountain in the Adirondacks, 2015
Some of the most indefatigable marketing cues in a consumer’s lifetime are predicted by example; as originally realized through visual media by the ham-fisted “brand ambassador,” any organization can appeal to this week’s trending values through conjuring a lately scrutinized, speculative quarry of “social media influencers.” Yes, consumers are meant to classically weigh price against …
This month I am excited to host four documentaries on emerging social justice issues every Thursday at the University at Albany Campus Center Auditorium. I am the curator and coordinator of this series. It is exciting to imagine the conversations the films will start and I expect to garner a nice turnout to each screening. …
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