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iTunes Tuesday: Display Song Lyrics

Tuesday June 16, 2009

Did you know that you can store a song’s lyrics inside iTunes? Simply right-click on any song and choose Get Info. Then switch to the Lyrics tab and paste the lyrics there. Now when you play that track on your iPhone or iPod touch, the lyrics will be displayed right on the [...]

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Friday Five: Awesome Country Lyrics

Friday March 20, 2009

“The last time we made love / She called out His name” – Hayes Carll, She Left Me for Jesus
“Pardon us, son, she ain’t no kid / That’s a cocktail waitress in a Dolly Parton wig” – Confederate Railroad, Trashy Women
“While she’s livin’ like a queen on alimony / I’m workin’ two shifts to eat [...]

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Scribbled Drunk on a Postcard

Tuesday August 19, 2008

I am a big fan of Bloodhound Gang. They had two big radio hits — “Fire Water Burn” (1996) and “The Bad Touch” (2000) — so I guess it’s not fair to call them one-hit wonders, but generally they’re not exactly “pop” music. Most of their songs are painfully sophomoric — “The Ballad [...]

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Rap Charts

Wednesday July 9, 2008

Rap Lyrics Explained With Charts and Graphs
source: Randy

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Breath

Monday July 7, 2008

If I knew where it was
I would take you there.

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Tricia and I went to see The Cure on Sunday night at The Shrine. We had dinner at The Foundry on Melrose first and got to the show at nine, about an hour late but just in time to catch most of our favorite songs. Just Like Heaven was first, which was the [...]

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Mary Jane’s Last Dance

Tuesday May 20, 2008

I have been a major Tom Petty fan for years and years. I have — I think — every CD he’s recorded. I know all the words to every song. I’ve seen him live almost a dozen times. I am absolutely astonished that it took me fifteen years to catch that [...]

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Plugged in and Ready to Fall

Friday April 25, 2008

One of my favorite songs is “Radio”, by Alkaline Trio. (mp3, lyrics) My sister got me to start listening to this group a few years ago and I’ve since collected everything they’ve recorded. What’s really funny is that for the longest time I thought it was a beautiful love song. Part [...]

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Tombstone Blues

Thursday October 4, 2007

Again I’ll say it: Best line ever in any rock n’ roll song:
And dropping a barbell
He points to the sky, saying
“The sun’s not yellow.
it’s chicken.”

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Maps

Thursday May 17, 2007

Somehow I managed to forget to write about this wonderful book. I read Miles Harvey’s The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime over a year ago and it is brilliant. I’ve been thinking about it lately because of the awesome song “Maps” by the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs. You [...]

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