Rambling Rhoads: 2019-11-03

As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Saturday, November 9, 2019

Shuffle #121 (November 9, 2019)

I Have Nothing – Whitney Houston

Fireball – Pitbull

The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) – U2

Burning House Of Love – X

Words Get In The Way – Miami Sound Machine

Lost And Lookin’ – Sam Cooke

Penguins – Lyle Lovett

Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley

Summertime – Eva Cassidy

Sitting On The Fence – GrooveLily

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

More on Medicare-for-all

Two recent Washington Post columns:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/warrens-climb-in-the-polls-should-horrify-democrats/2019/11/04/429f4032-ff4d-11e9-9518-1e76abc088b6_story.html (Michael Gerson)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/elizabeth-warren-tried-to-do-bernie-sanderss-homework-for-him-she-failed/2019/11/04/bddfb0b0-ff48-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html (Catherine Rampell)

Paul Barrere

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/paul-barrere-guitarist-and-singer-songwriter-for-little-feat-dies-at-71/2019/10/30/8ff7b290-fb21-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

I like Harrison Smith’s quick summary of Little Feat in his obituary above: “… mixed California rock with New Orleans funk over a half-century of extended jams and fiery performances.”

Favorite Little Feat songs:

Red Streamliner

Dixie Chicken

Let It Roll

Oh, Atlanta

Fat Man In The Bathtub

Hate To Lose Your Lovin’

All That You Dream

Time Loves A Hero

Sailin’ Shoes

Willin’

Why did those World Series games last so long?

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27977973/why-did-world-series-games-last-long

Great analysis by Sam Miller.

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