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Young Canadians - Hawaii Found on Jul 2nd, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Today is Canada Day in my neck of the woods; it's kind of like Independence Day in the U.S. minus the fervent patriotism and all that didn't-we- kick-some-Brit-ass bravado. Canada… Read full post »
The Toms - Sun Found on Jun 30th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Now I'm no mathematician but I suspect the chances of creating a genuine power-pop classic are rather slim. So what would be the likelihood, then, of creating a power-pop classic… Read full post »
The Pooh Sticks - That Was The Greatest Song Found on Jun 28th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ I recently read a magazine article that claimed the music we love in our early teens gets hot-wired into the pleasure centres of the brain and will trigger feelings of… Read full post »
The Beach Boys - Johnny Carson Found on Jun 23rd, 2008 Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Last week marked the long-awaited deluxe reissue of Pacific Ocean Blue, the 1977 solo album from Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson. Although older brother Brian is the widely recognized genius… Read full post »
Wilson Simonal - Nao Vem Que Nao Tem Found on Jun 22nd, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Summer's officially here (at least on my half of the world) and, to my ears, there are few songs as summery as Nem Vem Que Nao Tem. Today's post radiates… Read full post »
The Feeling - I Did It For Everyone Found on Jun 16th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Tabulate the most common disingenuous statements spoken by professional musicians and "I just play for me, I don't care if anyone else listens," or some variation thereof, must be top… Read full post »
Buckwheat Zydeco - Think It Over One More Time Found on Jun 14th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ A buddy of mine, who is of the heavy metal persuasion, has become all hot and bothered by advance hype that suggests Metallica will return to their speed metal roots… Read full post »
The Futureheads - Sale Of The Century Found on Jun 13th, 2008 Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Rock's freshman class of 2005 were a promising bunch but, one by one, the likes of The Futureheads, Maximo Park, The Editors, The Magic Numbers and Bloc Party turned all… Read full post »
Naz Nomad And The Nightmares (The Damn… - Nobody But Me Found on Jun 9th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Multiple personality disorder is not necessarily a bad thing— at least, when it afflicts a rock and roll band. Green Day, for instance, is currently sidestepping that whole 'how-do-we-follow-up-a-blockbuster?' dilemma… Read full post »
Bruce Cockburn - The Blues Got The World... Found on Jun 8th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ If you visited Chez Bongo Jazz anytime over the past 10 months, chances are you were greeted at the door by the sounds of Bruce Cockburn on the stereo. He… Read full post »
Alan Wilkis - Burnin' Found on Jun 8th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ High technology can be so overrated. Not always, of course: I am very happy to be writing this blog entry on a Mac iBook rather than a Commodore 64 and,… Read full post »
Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Flutter And Wow Found on Jun 2nd, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ When I started to get into music in the mid-1970s, my young imagination was captured by not only the timeless bands of the era (Pilot! Jigsaw! Star-freakin'-buck!) but also by… Read full post »
Rod Stewart - Only a Hobo Found on Jun 1st, 2008 Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Once again, it's time for What's The Matter With the Record Industry, Part Frankly Too Many To Count. In today's episode, Rod Stewart informs his record label that he'd like… Read full post »
The Golden Calgarians - Vladivostok Rock Found on May 27th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Dis darn interwebs thingie is pretty cool ... for being a series of tubes, that is. (Big shout out to U.S. Senator Ted Stevens for teaching me everything I know… Read full post »
Eli Paperboy Reed & The True Loves - (Doin' The) Boom Boom Found on May 25th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Listen to (Doin' The) Boom Boom and you might assume the record was released 50 years ago, not four weeks ago. Such is the soul authenticity of Eli 'Paperboy' Reed… Read full post »
Great Speckled Bird - Long Long Time To Get Old - Flies In the Bottle Found on May 24th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ A couple of milestones are approaching for Ian Dawson Tyson: He turns 75 in September and 2009 marks his 50th year in the music biz. In that time, Tyson (as… Read full post »
Serge Gainsbourg - Lemon Incest Found on May 20th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Up in heaven, Serge Gainsbourg is surely laughing. Only after banging a young hottie and sucking back a good smoke, of course. That thought went through my mind when pictures… Read full post »
The Kinks - Brainwashed Found on May 19th, 2008 Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ It's Victoria Day in Canada and, to mark the national holiday, I was initially tempted to write about Victoria, the Kinks' 1969 single and opening track from Arthur (Or the… Read full post »
The Bar-Kays - Copy Kat Found on May 18th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Plagiarism is rarely so shameless and blatant than when artists 'borrow' from their own back catalogue. Think Baby Talks Dirty, The Knack's rewrite of My Sharona. Think Nickelback's entire career.… Read full post »
The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket Found on May 17th, 2008 Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Forgive me, dear reader, if I seem a little too excited about the imminent arrival of summer. In my corner of the world, we had snow in January. And February.… Read full post »
Desmond Dekker - Intensified '68 (aka Music Like Dirt) Found on May 11th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ If I had to identify my all-time favourite rock lyric, I wouldn't scour the songbooks of Dylan or Cohen or Costello. I'd look no further than the first few seconds… Read full post »
The Only Ones - Why Don't You Kill Yourself Found on May 9th, 2008 Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ How do you follow up a pop music classic like The Only Ones' 1978 single Another Girl, Another Planet? The simple answer is you don't. Songs like that come once… Read full post »
Candie Payne - One More Chance Found on Apr 19th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Good things don't always come to those who wait, at least for North American fans of UK pop. When Amy Winehouse's went supernova in North America last year, I assumed… Read full post »
Dinah Washington - Big Long Slidin' Thing Found on Apr 14th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ In the last four years of her too-short life and career, Dinah Washington came under fire from critics for supposedly pandering to the marketplace by recording a series of string-smothered,… Read full post »
Anna Domino - Drunk Found on Apr 13th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ As Leslie Feist collected five Juno Awards last weekend in my hometown, I thought about Anna Domino, whose superb 1986 debut (pictured left) could have provided the musical blueprint for… Read full post »
Charmels - Please Uncle Sam (Send Back My Man) Found on Mar 30th, 2008 Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ This weekend's opening of army desertion drama Stop-Loss inspires today's Sunday Soul post. Please Uncle Sam (Send Back My Man) was released in November 1966 but surely its sentiment would… Read full post »
Four Seasons - Dawn (Go Away) Found on Mar 29th, 2008 Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ What will be actor Joe Pesci's most enduring contribution to pop culture? Showing moviegoers how to kill a man by stabbing him in the jugular with a ballpoint pen surely… Read full post »
The Soft Boys - Rock and Roll Toilet Found on Mar 28th, 2008 Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ As Robyn Hitchcock embarks on another reissue campaign of his solo albums, I wonder what's taking so long to refurbish his earlier recordings with The Soft Boys. Matador gave the… Read full post »
Goldfrapp - Clowns Found on Mar 27th, 2008 Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ "Say something once, why say it again?" David Byrne posed this rhetorical question more than 30 years ago yet this Psycho Killer lyric still comes to mind every time I… Read full post »
Donna Summer - Our Love Found on Mar 26th, 2008 Favorite
Bongo Jazz A Speciality ❤ Donna Summer is best known as the undisputed Queen of Disco during the latter half of the 1970s. Which is true, of course, but the work she and producer Giorgio… Read full post »
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