Clicks and Pops
Blog URL http://clicksandpops.blogspot.com
Located Santa Monica, California USA
A blog about music (and often about vinyl) that grew out of spending too much time in great used-record stores in a college town.
Latest Blog Posts
- TNT -- We Know Marketing on Nov 24, 2009 in Whitesnake Styx Credence Clearwater Revival Swag
Mix Tape for the MP3 Era (On TV)Mix tapes are so 1980s and mix CDs just aren't as cool.But if you could make an MP3 mix that looked like a cassette tape, that would be cool, right?Two years ago, the Mixa came out -- $40 bucks for a USB flash drive th...
- Fooling with the Logarithms, Going Berserk on Nov 22, 2009 in The Sports
It crackles, it clicks, it pops, it starts...We could hardly have been more different.I was nerdy and obsessed with music, looking for escape and lost in my imagination. She was tough and sexy and careless.I don't know how it started or why. She ca...
- Spam-A-Little, Spam-A-Lot on Nov 20, 2009 in Monty Python
Finally, this little corner of the Internets has arrived.For a while, I've been wondering why I bother to moderate comments. Most of you are extremely polite, funny, informative, and well-behaved. And up until yesterday, I'd never had any reason to...
- Surrender, But Don't Give Yourself Away on Nov 18, 2009 in Cheap Trick
Got my Kiss records out.On paper, I should have loved Cheap Trick. They had catchy songs, solid harmonies, enough power chords to keep things interesting, an offbeat sense of humor, and they had to go to Japan to become stars. Plus they worshipped...
- Kinks Month and the Beatles Ukebox on Nov 16, 2009 in the Kinks Beatles
This is why Al Gore invented the Internets!All month long, a group of dedicated followers of fashion have been listening to one Kinks album a day (in chronological order). Two of my favorite blogs, Pleasant Valley Sunday and The Song in My Head Toda...
- The Skid and the Mouse on Nov 13, 2009 in the rumour
A brief pause to appreciate the modern miracle of anti-lock brakes.I was in Alaska for most of the past week. When I got there, it was chilly, but they were still waiting for the first snow.When I left, there was 3-6 inches of snow on the ground.I d...
- Soap Star, Fake Mime, and the Herky-Jerky Guy on Nov 11, 2009 in Rick Springfield They Might Be Giants
You tell meThere were a lot of reasons to love the song "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield.He was cute.He was a soap opera star.The album it came from (Working Class Dog) featured a photo of a dog in a shirt and tie with a photo of Rick Springfield...
