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Beers I Have Known: Rolling Rock

Dan Seeger

This series of posts is dedicated to the many, many six packs, pony kegs and pints that have sauntered into my life at one point or another. I’m fairly certain that the first time I heard of Rolling Rock, the pale lager issued by Pennsylvania’s Latrobe Brewing Company, was in Ed Haynes song “Splash.” Haynes describes encountering a drunk at a Blue Movie concert at San Francisco’s Haight Street Fair. Heavily inebriated on Mickey’s Big Mouth, the drunk winds up vomiting in the midst of the crowd, causing all around to “give him a lot of elbow room.” This causes … Continue reading Beers I Have Known: Rolling Rock

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Top 40 Smash Taps: “Got a Love for You”

Dan Seeger

These posts are about the songs that can accurately claim to crossed the key line of chart success, becoming Top 40 hits on Billboard, but just barely. Every song featured in this series peaked at number 40. Jomanda was a trio that hailed from New Jersey. Members Cheri Williams and Joanne Thomas knew each other in their younger years, eventually reuniting after losing touch during high school. They were joined by Renee Washington, who’d developed her singing skills in church choirs, and began recording under the name Jomanda in 1987, quickly scoring hits on the Dance charts. Mixing the driving … Continue reading Top 40 Smash Taps: “Got a Love for You”

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College Countdown: KROQ-FM’s Top 40 Songs of 1987, 24 and 23

Dan Seeger

24. “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before” by the Smiths “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before,” the fourth and final single from the Smiths’ fourth and final studio album, Strangeways, Here We Come, was the first track from the band that I openly enjoyed, mostly because I was stupid. While I was arduously learning to expand my musical tastes during high school, I naturally and unfortunately took cues from my peers, a group of largely unenlightened souls who will quick to tag the U.K. group built around the creative tension between lead … Continue reading College Countdown: KROQ-FM’s Top 40 Songs of 1987, 24 and 23

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One for Friday: Tommy Shaw, “Girls with Guns”

Dan Seeger

I would never claim to be some sort of brilliant tweeter. I have my account, and I dutifully throw observations and snarky commentary up there. Mostly, it’s little more than links to different things that catch my eye during the day. Occasionally, though, an interesting little chat springs up around there, as was the case this past week when I expressed my helpless admiration for a certain Tommy Shaw single. Shaw was a guitar player for the ludicrously bombastic nineteen-seventies and nineteen-eighties rock band Styx. The group broke up shortly after the mammoth success of their 1983 album Kilroy Was … Continue reading One for Friday: Tommy Shaw, “Girls with Guns”