Extra Credit Class: The Top 20: compare and contrast 1: Dylan 2. McCartney 3. Lennon 4. Chuck Berry 5. Smokey Robinson 6. Jagger/Richards 7. Carole King, King/Goffin 8. Paul Simon 9. Joni Mitchell 10. Stevie Wonder 11. Bob Marley 12. Brian Wilson 13. Hank Willliams 14. Springsteen 15. Eddie Holland,...

I don't know if this was posted here anywhere before. If so, I apologize and will take it down. A news (?) article out today on website "MusicSnake" (nope...I never heard of it either) that for the upcoming season (2nd) of HBO's True Detective the theme song will be "Nevermind" f...

T; thanks. That helps a lot. Learn something every day. Also gives me a good excuse to listen to #1 again today. Not that I needed an excuse of course :D I very much enjoyed the Stephen Scobie essay "Riding the Midnight Train" you gave us a link to. The quote you provided from the article ...

great thread...appreciate the input and insights. The comments of support about the young man I knew are wonderful. I do not understand why so many "normal" young people are now using heroin and other opiates, with the all too familiar death toll that is taking. The usage is soaring in the...

Still noodling around on the topic of Blue Raincoat and drug addiction (with or without ODing): I found there is a Wiki talk page on this very issue. The web page is the talk page associated with the regular Wiki page on "Famous Blue Raincoat". Much of case for drug use is made by various ...

Rejoining a conversation I started (i.e., answering my own question? :lol: ) One other LC song I found with a rather unambiguous drug reference including a death allusion, is The Butcher "Well, I found a silver needle, I put it into my arm. It did some good, did some harm. But the nights were c...

A young man I knew died of an opiate overdose this week; an all too common occurrence reaching epidemic proportions in my part of America. Today I was looking for some quotes or music about ODing for a memorial service to be held this weekend. I found a website with a list of " best 100 songs a...

I'm not sure how Google figured I would want to see this "news" in my news feed, but it is great. This is Puerto Rican diva Olga Tañón singing a full throttle version in Spanish of Hallelujah for a Telemundo Christmas special this year. The young woman she brings forward from the choir nea...