A Heartbreak Showdown

And now it's time for a showdown!
It Should Have Been Me - Gladys Knight and the Pips
versus
All I Could Do Was Cry - Etta James
Two great songs with a common theme. Vote in the comments.

Miscellaneous Musical Musings:

- Reason #141 to get around to ripping some vinyl: Deodato - Very Together (1976). Side two features not only I Shot the Sherrif and the Theme from Star Trek, but best of all the wonderfully named track Univac Loves You, on which one Rubens Bassini is credited with playing "Holiday Inn room keys."

- I recieved my Cake: B-sides and Rarities CD in the mail today. If you're a Cake fan, I think you have to have it. Preview and order it here.

- The R&B/soul binge continues. Check out the Lost In Tyme blog. I highly recommend Lorraine Ellison - Stay With Me (1969), especially her version of Try, and the scorcher You Don't Know Nothing About Love.


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Now playing: Nina Simone - To Be Young Gifted And Black
via FoxyTunes

Beware the neocon encore

Read this blog, (especially posts 1, 2, 3) by Barnett R. Rubin, and keep an eye out for a reprise of the same arguments that got us into Iraq five years ago. This is madness.