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Kylie : A Manufactured Product

Kylie Minogue: cheerful, cheesy, sexy pop music - she may be the product of producers and marketers but I enjoy her music anyway.

Life Without Music?

Without the joy of songs and lyrics how poor our lives would be as we cope with lifes terrors and pains.

The Sodom And Gomorrah Show

I'm happy enough to have Fundamental / Fundamentalism but I do wish the Pet Shop Boys new music excited me more than it does.

Oh Giorgio!

The dance pop, club music sensibility was created and defined by Giorgio Moroder and his influence persists today, even unto the Pet Shop Boys.

That Wacky King of Pop

Coming to appreciate the real contribution and value of Michael Jackson's pop music: despite the abuse of the narrow and the savagery of the popular press.

Discovering Röyksopp

Royksopp's lovely uptemp / downtempo vocal chillout two-disc CD.

Going back to Tulsa with Bob Wills

Julia Lee's King Size Papa

Fine two CD collection of Julia Lee's blues singing from JSP.

Jumping at the barrelhouse

Excellent, inexpensive collection of early West Coast - California - rhythm and blues music.

Professor Alex Bradford

Alex Bradford one of the early black gospel singers and pianists that any rhythm and blues fans might enjoy.

Who Is This America?

Highly political, Fela Kuti influenced Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra's CD Who is this America?

Jack Teagarden's vocals

Jack Teagarden was one of jazz's most gifted singers as well as one of the finest trombonists of the 20th century.

Shout Sister Shout: Sister Rosetta Tharpe!

Just bought a copy of Proper's Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Original Soul Sister

The Swan Silvertones & melisma

The Swan Silvertones get my vote as one of the finest vocal harmony groups of all time religious or secular.

Annette Hanshaw: lovable, sweet, hot

Annette Hanshaw, one of America's forgotten great singers from the early days of recorded music.

Ethel Waters: she really was incomparable

Ethel Waters is America's most neglected jazz, blues, pop singer.

They Can't Take These Connie Boswell Songs Away From Me

Two disc CD collection the singing of Connie aka Connee Boswell.

Really, Yoseph I'm sorry if I make you lush

Bought a couple of CDs by Luke Vibert who also produces music as Wagon Christ.

Fred Astaire: The Complete London Sessions

Bought a collection of British made recordings of Fred Astaire's singin from the 30s and 70s.

Collected Boswell Sisters

Connee and the Boswell Sisters were the finest vocal harmony group in musical history. The release of five volumes collecting their singing is a joy to hear.

Moon Mullican

Moon Mullican: call it rockabilly, hillbilly boogie. A wonderful mix of honky tonky and proto rock and roll.

Spend a lazy afternoon with Regina Belle

Regina Belle's vocals on Lazy Afternoon show good taste, a gift for pop and jazz singing.

Make All Music Guide easier to use

Fix All Music Guide links and artist discography and biography sections, make the website easier to read and browse.

Forgotten gay writers, musicians, artists?

Rediscovering, recovering gay novelists, poets, musicians, artists, painters, photographers who've been forgotten by later generationf of queer men.

Norm Whitfield: Rose Royce, Temptations

Short appreciation of Motown producer Norman Whitfield

Sam Cooke kept moving on

Sam Cooke, my overcomplicated response from his shift from gospel melisma to commercial product produced by Hugo and Luigi

Glad to see Prince come back

Prince Rogers Nelson's career rebounds in 2004

Digitizing thousands of CDs

Browsing through my physical compact discs beats digitizing my CDs and not being able to see them.

Lullaby Of Broadway: The Best Of Busby Berkeley At Warner Bros.

Wonderful anthology CD set of Harry Warren's songs for Busby Berkeley's musical comedies

Judy Garland Retrospective

Trying to evaluate Judy Garland as a pop singer and select a CD or CDs to own

Rhumboogie with the Andrews Sisters

Comparison, evaluation of Andrews Sisters CD compliations, anthologies available

Lavay Smith's retro swing

Wish I could say I was excited by Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers

Julie London for the night

Listening to Julie London's recordings as a pop singer

Discovering electronic music

My discovery of electronic music: trance, trip-hop, techno, dance, synth-pop

Andy Williams: Moon River & other great movie themes

Pop vocalist, popular singer Andy Williams was someone I enjoyed as a little boy

Rosemary Clooney: From Bing to Billie

Rosemary Clooney Sings Bing Crosby and Tribute to Billie Holiday pop vocal two-for-one reissue

Suzanne Pittson: Resolution

Listening to Suzanne Pittson's Resolution: A Remembrance of John Coltrane for the first time

Pointer Sisters don't fire me up

Tried listening to the female vocal soul group Pointer Sisters Fire, not my kind of R&B music

Dance & electronica via internet radio

Listening to dance music, IDM, HiNRG on web radio

Go West: I love you

Pet Shops Boys sing the Village People

How Long Has This Been Going On

Just got a copy of Sarah Vaughan's How Long Has This Been Going On - Pablo

Happier with Winamp than WMP or iTunes

Decided that I like Winamp better than Windows Media Player or iTunes

Internet radio station choices

Blogamp broken, WMP annoying, iTunes piggish

iTunes no better than WMP for playing CDs

For playing compact discs Windows Media Player and iTunes seem equal.

Windows music players of the damned

Winamp dies, then Windows Media Play, will iTunes follow?

Funk Essentials

4 CD, 48 track Funk Essentails boxed set of funky music

Aretha Franklin's So Damn Happy

Listening to So Damn Happy a new CD by Aretha Franklin

Ronald Isley & Burt Bacharach

Listening to a new compact disc: Isley meets Bacharach

Jazz singing with a Southern accent

Jazz singers who hid their southern accent.

Norah Jones & jazz

Looking for a pointer to some of Norah Jones more jazz focused recordings.

Saint Judy: is there a good Garland CD?

I've never liked Judy Garland's singing or her weird facial expressions.

Swinging vocal harmony: Boswell Sisters, Ravens, Flamingos

The Ravens, Flamingos, Boswell Sisters are the best of hot and swinging vocal harmony groups.

Music as sex

Good music must effect me like good sex.

Music when I was young

Music that I listened to when a kid, The Supremes, honky-tonk.

Dare to love: Jimmy Somerville

Jimmy Somerville was always aware of the age of consent laws: Dare to love with the man sitting in jail because his male lover was younger

Listening to Barry White

Barry White's All-Time Greatest Hits. His music was popular in gay bars back in the 70s.

Sam Fox vs. a Cosmic Dancer

Sam Fox's dance pop, nelly Marc Bolan's Electric Warrior.

What is sexy music?

In an amorous mood I wonder what is sexy music. Erotic jazz singing, funky R&B, June Christy, Anita O'Day, Prince Rogers Nelson.

Fucking Marc Almond (virtually)

Marc Almond's dark gay sexuality, Jimmy Somerville's falsetto, Pet Shop Boys: fucking a tangerine, candy boy with his smeared makeup.

Nina Simone's rage

Meshell Ndegeocello on Nina Simone's death.

Twelve sheets of foolscap don’t ask me why

Brian Eno's meaningless lyrics, KLF and ambient music.

I sat me down to write a simple story

Procol Harum, A Salty Dog, Pilgrim's Progress Keith Reed's lyrics, Atlanta, Savannah.

We are stardust, we are golden

Crosby Stills Nash Young Déjà Vu Deja idealistic album of my youth when I did cut my hair.

Fucking Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan was bisexual, wished he were gay. I wish I could've fucked him.

Hey Babe, take a walk on the wild side

Lou Reed's Transformer, boys in make-up, drag queens, pretty boys, 1972.

Music of time past

Rediscovering Roxy Music, Brian Eno and other rock musicians of the early 70s.

Aaliyah’s I Care 4 U

Aaliyah’s, I Care 4 U, she'd have made a pretty boy; so goes the silly mysteries of sexual beauty?

Sgt. Pepper's: She's Leaving Home

Jazz & Pop Vocalists

Sarah Vaughan to John Pizzarelli: my favorite jazz and pop singers.

Vocal Harmony

Vocal harmony, doo-wop, jazz vocals

Christmas with the Chuck Wagon Gang

Adult Contemporary Music

Don't blog while drinking

You talk too much (me)

Music Maestro Please

Chuck Wagon Gang

White old time gospel music

New Music

Crazysexycool

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