Theoria

Trifecta Edition In honour of the following three events: (1) Calvin having a tumor removed from his mouth on Tuesday afternoon, (2) that I am writing this post instead of writing the talk I am giving this afternoon, and (3) the continued popularity of “Fuck Edition” of Musical Friday, I give you: Jon Spencer Blues [...]

“This sh– is bananas” edition Driving home in the car listening to the radio, we heard Gwen Stefani’s song about bananas. There’s a bit of swearing in it. Primarily the word “sh–.” You know this because it is edited out. You get the “sh” sound, but nothing else. It is so ridiculous the censoring/editing does [...]

This week I want to take a moment to move away from rock-based pop music and move into hip hop based pop music, especially that which is found in the top forty. I think it is more than fair to say that the last decent top forty song that was rock-based was Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” [...]

Kim Mitchell “Easy to Tame” [mp3 - removed: some jackass, rather than downloading the file, is listening to it about a thousand times; I’m not paying for that.] from “Shaking Like a Human Being” Kim Mitchell‘s 1986 album, “Shaking Like A Human Being,” would eventually go triple platinum (presumably only in Canada – but it’d [...]