Song of the Day 6/7: Chuck Wood, “Seven Days Too Long”
I like soul music on Fridays as much as the next guy, but sometimes I get tired of the same old songs. So I turn to Northern Soul, the British…
Song of the Day 6/6: Jim Radford, “The Shores of Normandy”
Certain minds think alike. Mike Dinsmore posted this in the Open Thread while I was writing it up. It's worth hearing twice. Jim Radford was a British folksinger and peace…
Song of the Day 6/4: Cyndi Lauper, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
Cyndi Lauper announced her tour this fall will be her last. The now-70-year-old singer released the girl power anthem that defined her career in 1983 with a video that became…
Song of the Day 6/3: Gladstone, “A Piece of Paper”
June 1 marked the 25th anniversary of the launch of Napster, the file-sharing network that destroyed the music industry as everyone knew it. Stories marking the date mostly focus on…
Song of the Day 5/31: Nazareth, “Guilty”
Yes, that's Scottish rockers Nazareth covering Randy Newman on their breakthrough 1975 LP, "Hair of the Dog." The tune, from Newman's controversial "Rednecks" album of the year before, got lots…
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: May, 2024
My kind of month. Tons o' diversity. So many cool songs that I'm calling an audible and releasing this list two days early--already have a couple for June in the…
Song of the Day 5/29: Gotye, “Somebody That I Used to Know”
This song has been having a moment – I've heard it recently not only on the radio but on the supermarket muzak, and it showed up in my YouTube feed.…
Song of the Day 5/28: Iron Butterfly, “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida”
Doug Ingle, who wrote, sang and played organ on "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida," Iron Butterfly's iconic 1968 hit, died last week at age 78. Ingle was the last surviving member of the lineup…
Song of the Day 5/27: Richard Sherman, “Feed the Birds”
Richard Sherman, who died last week at 95, penned the lyrics to hundreds of Disney songs from 1960 to 1973 while he and his composer brother, Robert, were employed as…
Song of the Day 5/24: Amy Winehouse, “Love Is a Losing Game”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona We’ve heard a whole lot about Amy Winehouse’s troubled behavior before she died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at age 27. It sounds like we…
Song of the Day 5/23: Paul Simon, “Graceland”
For supermarket tabloids, Elvis is the gift that keeps on giving, even though he's been dead for nearly 50 years. A headline the Weekly World News might have invented declared…
Song of the Day 5/22: Pixies, “Monkey Gone to Heaven”
Theme music for the heat dome over Mexico that's causing monkeys to fall dead from the trees. Black Francis wrote "Monkey Gone to Heaven" about the environment 35 years ago,…
Song of the Day 5/20: King Willonius, “Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body”
It's not exactly life imitating art, more like reality imitating reality TV, but the Catfightin' Congresswomen of Washington could be the hottest new show in the capital. In last week's…