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.
Kylie Minogue: cheerful, cheesy, sexy pop music - she may be the product of producers and marketers but I enjoy her music anyway.
Without the joy of songs and lyrics how poor our lives would be as we cope with lifes terrors and pains.
I'm happy enough to have Fundamental / Fundamentalism but I do wish the Pet Shop Boys new music excited me more than it does.
The dance pop, club music sensibility was created and defined by Giorgio Moroder and his influence persists today, even unto the Pet Shop Boys.
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.
Royksopp's lovely uptemp / downtempo vocal chillout two-disc CD.
Fine two CD collection of Julia Lee's blues singing from JSP.
Excellent, inexpensive collection of early West Coast - California - rhythm and blues music.
Alex Bradford one of the early black gospel singers and pianists that any rhythm and blues fans might enjoy.
Highly political, Fela Kuti influenced Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra's CD Who is this America?
Jack Teagarden was one of jazz's most gifted singers as well as one of the finest trombonists of the 20th century.
Just bought a copy of Proper's Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Original Soul Sister
The Swan Silvertones get my vote as one of the finest vocal harmony groups of all time religious or secular.
Annette Hanshaw, one of America's forgotten great singers from the early days of recorded music.
Ethel Waters is America's most neglected jazz, blues, pop singer.
Two disc CD collection the singing of Connie aka Connee Boswell.
Bought a couple of CDs by Luke Vibert who also produces music as Wagon Christ.
Bought a collection of British made recordings of Fred Astaire's singin from the 30s and 70s.
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: call it rockabilly, hillbilly boogie. A wonderful mix of honky tonky and proto rock and roll.
Regina Belle's vocals on Lazy Afternoon show good taste, a gift for pop and jazz singing.
Fix All Music Guide links and artist discography and biography sections, make the website easier to read and browse.
Rediscovering, recovering gay novelists, poets, musicians, artists, painters, photographers who've been forgotten by later generationf of queer men.
Short appreciation of Motown producer Norman Whitfield
Sam Cooke, my overcomplicated response from his shift from gospel melisma to commercial product produced by Hugo and Luigi
Prince Rogers Nelson's career rebounds in 2004
Browsing through my physical compact discs beats digitizing my CDs and not being able to see them.
Wonderful anthology CD set of Harry Warren's songs for Busby Berkeley's musical comedies
Trying to evaluate Judy Garland as a pop singer and select a CD or CDs to own
Comparison, evaluation of Andrews Sisters CD compliations, anthologies available
Wish I could say I was excited by Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
Listening to Julie London's recordings as a pop singer
My discovery of electronic music: trance, trip-hop, techno, dance, synth-pop
Pop vocalist, popular singer Andy Williams was someone I enjoyed as a little boy
Rosemary Clooney Sings Bing Crosby and Tribute to Billie Holiday pop vocal two-for-one reissue
Listening to Suzanne Pittson's Resolution: A Remembrance of John Coltrane for the first time
Tried listening to the female vocal soul group Pointer Sisters Fire, not my kind of R&B music
Listening to dance music, IDM, HiNRG on web radio
Pet Shops Boys sing the Village People
Just got a copy of Sarah Vaughan's How Long Has This Been Going On - Pablo
Decided that I like Winamp better than Windows Media Player or iTunes
Blogamp broken, WMP annoying, iTunes piggish
For playing compact discs Windows Media Player and iTunes seem equal.
Winamp dies, then Windows Media Play, will iTunes follow?
4 CD, 48 track Funk Essentails boxed set of funky music
Listening to So Damn Happy a new CD by Aretha Franklin
Listening to a new compact disc: Isley meets Bacharach
Jazz singers who hid their southern accent.
Looking for a pointer to some of Norah Jones more jazz focused recordings.
I've never liked Judy Garland's singing or her weird facial expressions.
The Ravens, Flamingos, Boswell Sisters are the best of hot and swinging vocal harmony groups.
Good music must effect me like good sex.
Music that I listened to when a kid, The Supremes, honky-tonk.
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
Barry White's All-Time Greatest Hits. His music was popular in gay bars back in the 70s.
Sam Fox's dance pop, nelly Marc Bolan's Electric Warrior.
In an amorous mood I wonder what is sexy music. Erotic jazz singing, funky R&B, June Christy, Anita O'Day, Prince Rogers Nelson.
Marc Almond's dark gay sexuality, Jimmy Somerville's falsetto, Pet Shop Boys: fucking a tangerine, candy boy with his smeared makeup.
Meshell Ndegeocello on Nina Simone's death.
Brian Eno's meaningless lyrics, KLF and ambient music.
Procol Harum, A Salty Dog, Pilgrim's Progress Keith Reed's lyrics, Atlanta, Savannah.
Crosby Stills Nash Young Déjà Vu Deja idealistic album of my youth when I did cut my hair.
Marc Bolan was bisexual, wished he were gay. I wish I could've fucked him.
Lou Reed's Transformer, boys in make-up, drag queens, pretty boys, 1972.
Rediscovering Roxy Music, Brian Eno and other rock musicians of the early 70s.
Aaliyah’s, I Care 4 U, she'd have made a pretty boy; so goes the silly mysteries of sexual beauty?
Sarah Vaughan to John Pizzarelli: my favorite jazz and pop singers.
Vocal harmony, doo-wop, jazz vocals
White old time gospel music