Sonic Lager For Lucid Minds

TOP 43 DURAN DURAN SONGS (This list was originally compiled in 2014)             Last year (2013), while at Disney California Adven...

There was a time when innocence was intact. Girls were classmates playing in schoolyards. Boys would watch with wonder under the spells ca...

Deep Purple come riding in on an insistent, bare bones head-banging riff, as David Coverdale heralds the destruction that Stormbringer—a myt...

He thought it about time to confess to her what should have been fairly obvious. But if it was, she had never let on. So he composed a dra...

The penultimate track on the Jacksons’ masterpiece Triumph crafts something wonderfully fresh out of the familiar. The lyrics reflect the ...

They typically signify gloom: dark clouds, sad songs, the hard wind. Yet Nashville Star Season 1 finalist Miranda Lambert extracts from su...

Perhaps in a secret cove nestled somewhere between Disneyland’s New Orleans Square and Frontierland is an attraction which finds Dame Darcy ...

When I was a junior high student in the ‘80s, there were two eminent trendsetters who were: (a) taller than the rest of us; (b) better-looki...

“A Little Kiss Is A Kiss Is A Kiss” is Connie Stevens exulting in the physiological manifestations and inexplicable flightiness of a teenage...

Had Lux Lisbon of Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides not ended her own life with her sisters, it’s almost inevitable she would have don...

Lead singer David Pack includes enough variety in his vocal tones, and the Doobie Brothersesque multi-part harmonies add enough warmth, to m...

After the inconsistency of the at-times mundane offerings on 1994’s Betty , Helmet’s 1997 release, Aftertaste , was a desirable return, at l...

Carmen Rasmusen is the only American Idol contestant I have ever voted for. (That is, until Season 7 when Kristy Lee Cook and Kady Malloy ...

Before boarding the loopy carnival ride of medication, Kevin Barnes exhorts his chemical imbalance to achieve equilibrium without the crutch...

Although one could focus on the technical wizardry evident in the legendary Buddy Rich’s actual drumming incorporated into this re-working o...

Under the auspices of Wu-Tang, RZA enters the combat chamber, throwing down kung-fu cinema snippets and his trademark dynamically flat rudim...

Beneath the pigtails and babydoll dresses, Emma Bunton was the most comely member of the Spice Girls , innocently cloaking the group’s inher...

“Life Is Like A Star” is the one song that would have been more appropriate than “Magic” playing in the background while Olivia Newton-John...

As part of the closing montage for the 1980 box office bomb, it channels the inspiration of a muse, creating a synergy of renewal between dr...

About 14 years ago, I was stopped at a red light in my hometown. A former classmate, John Baker, pulled up beside me and we exchanged salut...

Flourishing a swooning string section befitting a Romanian gymnastics floor exercise routine, “Come Back Margaret” provides a maudlin accomp...

Sugarland’s “Settlin’” marks the 200 th song posting. Sonic Lager For Lucid Minds has been a rewarding outlet when I find the inspiration...

As it incorporated elements of rock and pop, country music came to fill the role that Top 40 radio once played in the ‘80s: an accessible, f...

Given the recently revived debate on removing certain words from the vocabulary of entertainment, is banning the use of the “N-word” an effi...

Currently best known as Jan Levinson on NBC’s The Office , Melora Hardin in fact possesses a lovely singing voice (and has recorded two albu...

The number 13, especially when it coincides with Friday, has unlucky connotations in many cultures. The girl who so entices Charles Thompso...

The best pop music is constructed of elements with universal appeal. Even for those of us who don’t understand the French language, France ...

Forlorn sentiment encumbers Charlie Brown as he mopes amid orchestral flourishes and a pendulous melody that dwells in minor key somberness,...

Morrissey’s gripe about the revolving door through which acquaintances pass with regularity is symptomatic of his broader complaint—being le...

Sharing its title with the moniker of one of the Furious Five, “Scorpio” is a minacious creature: spasmodic synth-prickles palpitate as a po...

( The Cupid Chronicles: Complexions of Love – An Anachronistic Remembrance) How often does a modern day artist render inferior the vintage ...

( The Cupid Chronicles: Complexions of Love – A Tragic Obsession) Take undying devotion to its logical extreme and it becomes a tale of lif...

( The Cupid Chronicles: Complexions of Love – A Second Chance) “Try Again” voices the regret of a man who took his woman for granted. Ins...

( The Cupid Chronicles: Complexions of Love – Stuck In Love’s Sandbox) Tracy Thorn explores the psyche of a woman who still dreams of her e...

( The Cupid Chronicles: Complexions of Love – Caught In The Grip Of A Jealous Rage a.k.a. The O.J. Syndrome) If one gets past the bloodcurd...

( The Cupid Chronicles: Complexions of Love – The Passive Vindictive) To see an ex wallow in misery and then spurn his efforts to reconcile...

( The Cupid Chronicles: Complexions of Love – The Adulterer Who Knows No Contrition) What otherwise seems like a breezy calypso on a sunny ...

( The Cupid Chronicles: Complexions of Love – The Unlikely Resignation To Table For One Reservations) The sparse piano plinks, melodramatic...

( The Cupid Chronicles: Complexions of Love – Wistfulness On Other Worlds) A heavenly backdrop of pastoral orchestration wafts in to lay do...

( The Cupid Chronicles: Complexions of Love – The Disillusioned And The Discarded) Set to a gentle saunter befitting coffeehouse bohemianis...