Category Archives: Music

The Moon is Not an All Night Nightlight

Posted on 25 November 2017 by Larry Russwurm

Poets, songwriters and prose makers beware that if you don’t observe carefully enough, you might be taken to task for sloppy writing. In this case I’d like to call out songwriter Jason Mraz for his song “Shine”. There was a … Continue reading →

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Little Geney

Posted on 14 October 2017 by Larry Russwurm

This website has talked about Barry Manilow’s Mandy and how obvious a trick the now out-of-the-closet Manilow was making with the apparent heterosexual love song. We also speculated that perhaps someone in Boston is gay with their song Amanda (a … Continue reading →

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Giv’ ‘er Should Be the Title of the New Imagine Dragons Album

Posted on 30 September 2017 by Larry Russwurm

I’m just going to list the titles off the album “Evolve” and put them in a particular order with little but some explanation: Believer Thunder Mouth of the River Start Over Whatever it Takes Yesterday Walking the Wire (contains e … Continue reading →

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Title Mining is Strong in Imagine Dragons

Posted on 13 August 2017 by Larry Russwurm

For their first album I wrote a post to show how every Imagine Dragons song on their first album had a title that had been used earlier. As a control, I compared it with a Kate Bush CD which also … Continue reading →

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Be Careful Little Mars

Posted on 1 July 2017 by Larry Russwurm

Fragile is a classic album by the band Yes and illustrated by Roger Dean. The front of this cover has an idyllic looking miniature world with a “wooden” spaceship with jagged edges and curved wings flying above and is pictured … Continue reading →

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Men Without Audible Voices

Posted on 25 March 2017 by Larry Russwurm

In the eighties, I went to Montreal and my brother and sister took me to a bar that Ivan Doroschuk was known to frequent. I had heard of him because I liked the pop band Men Without Hats that he … Continue reading →

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Tom Cochrane in Inappropriate Places

Posted on 9 July 2016 by Larry Russwurm

There is a country music festival (the CMT Music Fest) in my city this evening. Tom Cochrane with longtime band mates Red Rider appear as what could only be described as a Sesame Street bit along the lines of One … Continue reading →

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The Cultural Appropriation of the West

Posted on 16 April 2016 by Larry Russwurm

Much has been made about the developed world (otherwise known as the west) and its cultural appropriation of the developing world and other disenfranchised groups. But cultural appropriation swings both ways so I’d like to point out the cultural appropriation … Continue reading →

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The Dark Side of Astronomy: Would Be Namers

Posted on 19 January 2016 by Larry Russwurm

We’ve all heard the story, pay a small price and you can name a star that will be filed by a company. The only problem with this is that professional astronomers do not accept these files. Paying a few bucks … Continue reading →

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Star Wars, Now in Black and White

Posted on 9 January 2016 by Larry Russwurm

I bet your kids or other youths lit up when they read Star Wars in the title. But as positive a phrase that Star Wars may be, there is a negative phrase that outranks it for youth. You guessed it. … Continue reading →

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