Posts by Alby

This song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2001 for its inclusion on the soundtrack of "The Wonder Boys," and its chorus about sums it up for…

In 1928 A.P. Carter, patriarch of the singing Carter family, asked the musical question "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?" Three years later he answered it in the affirmative…

Unless you were alive at the time, it's almost impossible to believe that the Dave Clark Five weren't just the first British band to follow the Beatles in the British…

This was Marvin Gaye's follow-up single to his No. 1 smash "Heard It Through the Grapevine," and like that song it was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong --…

OK, I can take a hint. Until I play some Sondheim I won't be forgiven for polluting the blog with Andrew Lloyd Webber. So, in the spirit of El Som's…

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington wanted to mount a Laurie Anderson career retrospective. She wasn't interested, but she agreed to put together a new multi-media show instead.…

Speaking from experience, I think this is a metaphor. I think they were days, not miles, and it wasn't his feet that were hurting so bad. This 1968 release was…

I think Jason requested some Happy Mondays, so here's the band's biggest hit, from 1990's "Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches," considered one of the landmark albums of the Madchester scene…