10th

1. I’ve watched the “Ras Trent” digital short dozens of times and been like “So true!!!” But I’ve never understood why, along with Red Stripe, rollerskates, and a DVD of Cool Runnings, “Murder She Wrote” was in there. Is the show really big in Jamaica? I don’t know, it’s weird…
And then Nathaniel James posted the track and I remembered the fucking song! That’s like a year’s worth of uncertainty, finally solved. Such a relief.
2. The Kronos Quartet were about to play a Terry Riley piece on Soundcheck, and John Schaefer mentions that The Who were so inspired by Riley, they wrote and named a song after him. OH! Headslap, “Baba O’Riley!” That makes so much sense.
Wow, yesterday was a good day.

Biggie is the first celebrity death in my memory. I was watching MTV and Kurt Loder’s solemn face came on with the news, and it actually made me pause and reflect because “Hypnotize” was all over the station at the time, and I was kinda into it. It took years for me to stop being 13, and finally listen to Ready to Die.
(Note to my future children reading my blog: before The Hype Machine, we used to find out when musicians died on MTV News, which was a legitimate thing at the time.)

I bet most of you assumed I was talking about “Brown Eyed Girl.” Sure, that one’s a gimme. But have you actually looked at this guy’s discography? For shame:
- “The Back Room”
- “Take Me Back”
- “Goin’ Down Geneva”
- “Foreign Window”
- “Moondance”
- “Rough God Goes Riding” (album: The Healing Game)
- “My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It”
- “Oh the Warm Feeling”
- “Come Running”
- “Take It Where You Find It”
- “Wherever God Shines His Light”
- “Close Enough for Jazz”
And those are just titles. I mean, you might think you’re safe with a song called, say, “Astral Weeks.” You are so not:
If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dream
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
From the far side of the ocean
If I put the wheels in motion
And I stand with my arms behind me
And I’m pushin’ on the doorReally, George Ivan? Really?
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