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A recovered archive, still unfolding. These are historical entries from 2015–2020, preserved for Nick’s review.

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51 to 51Nov 13, 2016DAY 38

Whenever I Call You Friend

There are certain songs, sung by certain artists, which transcend time, that sound the same in this very moment as they did the first time we heard it on AM Radio. For me, Whenever I Call You Friend is one…

51 to 51Nov 12, 2016DAY 39

Get Outta My Way

I have been traveling to Provincetown every summer since 1994. It’s my happy place. It’s where my soul breathes without restriction and I feel unboundedly connected. When I can hear a song, close my eyes…

51 to 51Nov 11, 2016DAY 40

Year Of The Cat

From the mid-seventies comes this melodic, soothing tale of a man beguiled by a woman who smells of incense and patchouli. It’s an uncharacteristically long song from an era when hits were cut to just about…

51 to 51Nov 10, 2016DAY 41

I’d Die Without You

There was a brief time when I lived in a room in Aurora’s uninsulated attic. The room was small and had pitched ceilings, but I was young and didn’t really need much. I had a bed, a chest of drawers, a…

51 to 51Nov 9, 2016DAY 42

Firework

When Glee began on Fox in May of 2009, it immediately delivered what the title of show promised – glee. Glee was a mirror of a wishful high school experience that nearly every gay geek could ever want; to…

51 to 51Nov 8, 2016DAY 43

Time After Time / All Through The Night

Cyndi Lauper is an enigmatic oddball with a unique sound that paved a bridge between pop and new wave and added another eighties bombshell to the charts. She’s So Unusual is such a great album. It spurred…

51 to 51Nov 7, 2016DAY 44

You Gotta Be

It’s a pretty song with a nice message about learning from past mistakes and marching forward with your head high. It’s sung by a woman whose voice takes you to a jazz club, allowing you to close your eyes…

51 to 51Nov 6, 2016DAY 45

Annie's Song

There’s something about the early seventies that is just so magical in my memory. I am always the first to tell people I had a really happy childhood. From as far back as my first memories up until the…

51 to 51Nov 5, 2016DAY 46

Drive / If You Could Only See / Closing Time

Today I present three songs, so I’ll label this as some songs that still resonate from a really terrible year. Dichotomy much? There’s something about me that finds comfort in the music that played around…

51 to 51Nov 4, 2016DAY 47

What Is Love

If you were alive in the nineties, you know this song. You may know it as the theme for the Roxbury characters from SNL played by Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan. To me, it was way more that – it represented…

51 to 51Nov 3, 2016DAY 48

Mutual Surrender

I moved back to Long Island from the Poconos in the summer of 1985. A lot happened in such a small amount of time, not the least of which was discovering and falling in love with the new sound of new wave…

51 to 51Nov 2, 2016DAY 49

Sky High

Sky High is an unintentionally feel good song, despite the lyrics, from the mid-seventies. It’s about a break up that explodes. He sings about a girl who deceives him, but the pop horns and almost-disco…

51 to 51Nov 1, 2016DAY 50

See You In September

Song 50 is, I think, the oldest one on the list. Overall I don’t usually love the music of the sixties, with the obvious exception of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but this one, as many songs do,…

51 to 51Oct 31, 2016DAY 51

Cough Syrup

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 top favorite songs of all time. Most were ballads, some were…

50 to 50Dec 21, 2015DAY 0

Finale [In The Heights]

Of all the music in all the genres from all the time eras, it’s been REALLY difficult to cull down 50-ish songs as favorites. I love music. Music is joy and sorrow, an outlet and a hope chest. Songs…

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