I Am A Child

This later version is less pop than the original Buffalo Springfield version. Neil Young’s I Am a Child. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Happy Father’s Day.

Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Today’s truth in music series choice is Neil Young’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart, because only love can break your heart, right? The recent cover below by Coco Sumner (I Blame Coco), featuring Fyfe Dangerfield is decent. I Blame Coco covered this song here, on her album The Constant …

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Don’t Let It Bring You Down, It’s Only Castle’s Burning

Helen, Helen, Helen. Some things are beyond indefensible, so thank you for not “But I’m just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood” crying on Nightline . There are more opinions on this than on the war in Afghanistan, the Gulf Oil Spill, …

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Old Man on Old School Friday

This weeks Old School Friday is “family picnic barbecue or reunion”. Distinct parts — we call them sects — of my family are into different things. At one end, the end for which Teetotalism is not an option, someone would inevitably start, à la Beetle Juice, to sing the banana …

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