Neil Rajala
LIVE SHOTS: A Dozen Favorite Live Albums
This list started out as five albums, then ten. Finally, after some agonizing, I settled on a dozen. It’s killin’ me to leave off some...
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Neil Rajala
- Jul 26, 2022
- 5 min
ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: A Couple Old Friends, a Couple New Crushes.
I've been spending July listening to new releases and digging through the crates about equally. These four have been in the spotlight in...
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Neil Rajala
- Jul 22, 2022
- 2 min
SHORT TAKES: Saving the best for last.
I realized that my last Short Takes was a little hard on the elder rockers I mentioned. I wanted to follow up and make clear that it’s...
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Neil Rajala
- Jul 19, 2022
- 7 min
SHORT TAKES: More random thoughts on the current state of fandom.
• Hear Me Out: I'm raising a glass to one of my all-time favorite albums, and the one least likely for any reader of this blog to have...
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Neil Rajala
- Jul 11, 2022
- 9 min
CELLULOID HEROES - 10 Favorite Concert Films
This list’s pretty self-explanatory, just a couple of quick things to mention. I included films that are pretty much all live performance...
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Neil Rajala
- Jun 27, 2022
- 4 min
SHORT TAKES: More random thoughts on the current state of fandom.
• You know something makes me feel old these days? Commercials make me feel old. Especially commercials for tampons and toilet paper, two...
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Neil Rajala
- Jun 22, 2022
- 5 min
NEW ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: Easy to Hard
I took a slightly different approach to this roundup. I tried to put myself in other's shoes and rank these records in order of...
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Neil Rajala
- Jun 9, 2022
- 4 min
NEW ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: Getting Caught Up
Time to get caught up on the last couple weeks of new releases before the new batch arrives tomorrow. These are the records that stuck on...
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Neil Rajala
- May 31, 2022
- 19 min
TAMING THE BEAST: A Walk on the Wild Side.
Lou is in an elite category of musical heroes for me. Like the Stones, Miles, the Beatles, a few others, I lost all ability to be...
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Neil Rajala
- May 27, 2022
- 6 min
ALBUMS WORTH A SPIN: A May’s worth of earworms.
Some new discoveries, some old favorites. Here are the albums that got stuck on my personal playlist in May. No particular order, I just...
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Neil Rajala
- May 23, 2022
- 5 min
SHORT TAKES: Random thoughts on the current state of music fandom
• Do you feel frisson?: There’s a recent article on the website Big Think that put a name to a physical experience I’ve enjoyed my whole...
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Neil Rajala
- May 16, 2022
- 8 min
WHAT'S THAT SOUND?: A Music Genre Guessing Game.
I was taking a leisurely weekend stroll through my local library and came across this book - Appetite for Definition: An A-Z Guide to...
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Neil Rajala
- May 5, 2022
- 4 min
JOURNEY THROUGH THE PAST - Pre-stardom Faces
Gotta love the magic of the internet. With a little excavation, you can go back in time to see your favorite artists long before the...
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Neil Rajala
- May 2, 2022
- 9 min
DIAMONDS IN THE MINE: One Record to Rule Them All
I’m kind of inventing my own category for this post. It was triggered by spinning a couple of albums on this list recently. These are...
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Neil Rajala
- Apr 26, 2022
- 6 min
RECORD STORE DAY 2022 - A Tale of Three Stores
Stop One (Saturday): Saturday was beautiful, sunny and 70s, always appreciated when you know in this state there was every possibility it...
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Neil Rajala
- Apr 19, 2022
- 7 min
What Happened Next? – The Cars (and the New Cars)
I totally loved these guys when they first arrived in the late 70s. Their first few albums were like a breath of fresh air in the time of...
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Neil Rajala
- Apr 14, 2022
- 12 min
LIVE SHOTS: My top ten favorite concerts, Part Two - 1986 to 2017
Picking up where Part One left off, I was starting to feel like an experienced, savvy concert goer by the late 1980s, and was choosing...
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Neil Rajala
- Apr 10, 2022
- 10 min
LIVE SHOTS: My top ten favorite concerts, Part One - 1977 to 1984
Not counting acts like local bands in bars, or city festivals with bands rotating on and off makeshift stages during the day, I’ve seen...
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Neil Rajala
- Apr 6, 2022
- 14 min
DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE: (aka) Writing About Music
From what I’ve been able to dig up, the quote “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” likely originated with either...
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Neil Rajala
- Apr 1, 2022
- 4 min
SHORT TAKES: A couple of thoughts about Chili Peppers.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers released an new album today. I'm not a huge fan, or a small one for that matter, but the way Unlimited Love is...
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