Music Blogs

  • Let Your Love Flow (The Bellamy Brothers) - day 37

    by Nicholas Marino
    It’s 1980. You’re going away to summer camp and you have no idea what to expect. While other kids are getting murdered at their sleepaway by the cr...

  • Beautiful (Gordon Lightfoot) - day 38

    by Nicholas Marino
    Let us travel back to the very early 1970s, shall we? I don’t actually remember this song from that era; Beautiful is not the stand-out hit of Gord...

  • Together Forever (Lisette Melendez) - day 39

    by Nicholas Marino
    The late eighties gave us a new brand of disco music called Freestyle, a hard-hitting, bass-driven genre speckled with one-hit wonders churning out...

  • Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper) - day 40

    by Nicholas Marino
    Imagine, if you will, a movie star not known for his singing voice, finding his vulnerability in the role of a lifetime alongside the mammoth voice...

  • Layla (Derek & The Dominos) - day 41

    by Nicholas Marino
    I’m about to provide you with 7+ minutes of heroic rock and roll and soul-smashing bliss. Layla is the pinnacle of classic rock and roll. Here is a...

  • Stacy’s Mom (Fountains Of Wayne) - day 42

    by Nicholas Marino
    You know that you sing along to this song and that you tap your pen on your keyboard or clap along at the end verse. Or perhaps, like me, you do al...

  • Dreaming Of You/I Could Fall In Love (Selena) - day 43

    by Nicholas Marino
    Today I present another human with the voice of an angel, but this one’s life was cut down way too short and tragically. Today I give you Selena Qu...

  • I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That (Elton John) - day 44

    by Nicholas Marino
    Anything that needs to be said about the genius amongst us named Elton John has likely been said already when I wrote about his other monstrous hit...

  • I Say A Little Prayer (Dionne Warwick) - day 45

    by Nicholas Marino
    What a happy memory out of 1967! Obviously, my earliest memories of this amazing power ballad, sung by the inimitable Dionne Warwick way before she...

  • Crazy (Icehouse) - day 46

    by Nicholas Marino
    You already know of my obsession with obscure new wave hits from the late eighties, so you shouldn’t be surprised by today’s entry. If I’m being ho...

  • If The World Was Ending (JP Saxe featuring Julia Michaels) - day 47

    by Nicholas Marino
    What a perfect anthem for a shitty, uncertain year with civil division, racial unrest (as if that’s something new), and a global pandemic locking m...

  • Five years ago but still six feet apart! Originally written and posted on Monday, October 31, 2016

    by Nicholas Marino
    Last year I’d borrowed the idea of blogging a “50 songs in 50 days” countdown to my 50th birthday, counting back (in no real particular order) my t...