Randor's Song of the Week: 11.06.11

"Electric Boogie" by Marcia Griffiths from the album Electric Boogie. 1976.
    I know exactly what you're thinking. Well, lemme explain:
    Put aside the cheese; put aside the line dance. Put aside that this is likely the most well-known song featured since Jimi Hendrix's take on "All Along the Watchtower" back in March 2009 (before the blog existed!). Maybe you'll subdue your current askance impression of it and hear the carefree charm that originally catapulted it o'er the ramparts of success. If that siege fails, perhaps the unique history of a single released in '76 became popular almost 20 years later can airstrike your interest. If the whole shebang grates annoyingly for you regardless, then er.. I'd still say this fine whine has aged well.

Randor's Song of the Week: 05.15.11

"Torn" by Ednaswap from the album Wacko Magneto. 1997.
    Music often has a potency far greater than any drug. A single-song dosage can shake the foundation of one's mind more effectively than a shipwrecked and island-stranded heroin addict returning to civilization via the Golden Triangle during typhoon season- ...Under the correct circumstances... Much like a bottle of aspirin would never settle the shakes for our castaway junkie, an exact sort of tune must unfurl itself to the ear for actual use as medicine. It must be discovered. Saturday night found me entangled in this precise soul-searching dilemma, and I now write to you the prescription for my ailment.