Music

Song of the Week: “Shock the Monkey”…by Don Ho?

After having attended a couple of Filipino-Canadian cultural events in Toronto, my good buddy George quipped that "deep inside every…

20 years ago

Song of the Week: "On a Plain", the Nirvana (1991) and Lullabye (2006) Versions

I was a DJ at the engineering pub at Crazy Go Nuts University in 1991. This meant that in the…

20 years ago

You Can Get a Master’s Degree for This?!

You may not remember the technology, but before the World Wide Web that we know and love today, there was…

20 years ago

Bum Rush the Charts and Send a Message to the RIAA

Today is Bum Rush the Charts day, a day on which we're supposed to send a message to the RIAA…

20 years ago

Brief Encounter with a Rock Star

Throwing the horns at Queen's Park, May 1999, on the first day I took the accordion out on the street.…

20 years ago

Song of the Week: "Don’t You (Forget About Me)" by Billy Idol (2001)

Before the Home Alone series of movies completely ruined him, John Hughes could put together some decent movies: National Lampoon's…

20 years ago

The Police, Live at the Grammy Awards

Old fart alert: Yes, I bought the Police's first album, Outlandos D'Amour, when I was a teenager (a too-young-to-drive one,…

20 years ago

Song of the Week: "California Stars" by Billy Bragg and Wilco (1998)

The Ginger Ninja and I are going on vacation for a week starting quitting time tonight. Expect posting up until…

20 years ago

"You Can’t Rap" by Example

I was amused by the single by Example titled You Can't Rap, which sounds like a strage gene-splice of the…

20 years ago

Songs of the Week: "Spadina Bus" by the Shuffle Demons (1985), "London Underground" by Kay and Biswas (2005) and "Going Underground" by The Jam (1980)

Update, February 12th, 2007: A week has passed and the attached songs are no longer available. In the spirit of…

20 years ago