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Burl Veneer posted Rocket Cathedrals and Lovecraft | 3 days ago
There is a point at which Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania passes through a notch in a mountaintop; sheer cliffs rise up a hundred feet or so on either side of the highway. Driving through the pass last week, the cliffs were covered with giant icicles, veritable frozen waterfalls; upon seeing them the...
Burl Veneer posted Saturday Night Is Partyin' Time | Dec 5, 2009
Around 1979 I was a big fan of the Saturday night radio show on WAVA FM 105, one of the DC area's major AOR stations. The intro music was an a capella piece with a bass ostinato keeping the rhythm, and lead vocals singing "Saturday night" and "Saturday night is partyin' time" repeatedly. I never...
Burl Veneer posted The seventies are the new retro-modern | Dec 2, 2009
It's been a year and a half since my last big post on soundtrack music; after gorging on Ghost Box albums last week, it's time for another one. The Ghost Box label purveys music in the style of "modern" 70s library music, a nouveau retro-futurism to succeed the old retro-futurism that looked back to...
Burl Veneer posted Get It On! | Dec 1, 2009
I onIy ever bought one hits album that was advertised on TV--it was so good I never had to buy another one! Ronco's 1974 compilation Get It On! boasted "20 ORIGINAL HITS 20 ORIGINAL ARTISTS", and it is a wonderful cross section of the popular music of the day. That was a time when different genres...
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