Sometimes you pick up an album just to satisfy the earworm you can't get rid of. Now, to be upfront, the first album I bought from Donnie Iris was his 1982 release The High and the Mighty - an album I found about a year ago. I played it a few times and enjoyed myself, but as I sit here listening to Back on the Streets , I can't recall any of the songs from it. This isn't really a shot; it's more reflective of my underdeveloped sense of object permanence. I have the same problem trying to remember more than a couple of the songs off the three Tommy Tutone albums I have - and I like those albums. Other than "867-5309/Jenny" and the forgotten hit from their debut, "Angel Say No," I couldn't name another song. All of their albums were decent, just not especially memorable. Unless a song gets buried deep into my subconscious, there's a good chance I'll more often than not experience a wonderful Groundhog Day moment when I play an album I'...
A place where I blather on about music, vinyl, memories, nostalgia, things I miss, things I'm excited about, or stuff I just found and want to share. I could also be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally don't know what I'm talking about, but sometimes I do. This is mostly a stream-of-consciousness brain dump, a reaction video without the images. Mostly, I'm just rambling. It's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget #oldenoughtoforget