Today's song is a good one – it's one of the singles from Iron Maiden's 1988 masterpiece Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. It's one of the more recognizable tunes from the record and a fantastic track. And the video is notable too - it features Monty Python standout Graham Chapman and is one of …
Continue reading A Story And A Song – Can I Play With Madness?
This time around, the song has almost nothing to do with the story. My reason for going with this song will be evident soon enough. Our song today is Your Love, the big hit from The Outfield. It's a very nice power pop offering that I'm sure most people have heard. It's one of those …
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This story has to do with buying music in a strange land, far away from home. For the song I'll choose one from one of the two albums I bought that day – Pantera's The Great Southern Trendkill was one of my pickups at a mall in France at some point in 1996. War Nerve …
I had a real post I was going to do today but I finally grasped what day today was gonna be so I put off the other post and will have a bit of fun today instead. It's also one where the story and the song bear no connection to one another, save for the …
Today's story revolves around a friend's hi-jinks and one of the biggest selling singles ever. The song is the 1970 smash hit In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry. The UK track set the world on fire and sold over 30 million copies, an absolutely ridiculous number for a single. It hit the top of the …
We had a good round of winter weather in my area (and across much of the U.S.) a few weeks ago, and are seeing more as winter slowly rolls away into spring. That got me thinking about an odd little story from another notable winter storm many years ago. And as a result, here is …
Just a quick note - this series is an unconnected group of stories, just titled this way for summary purposes. Nothing missed before is necessary for this or the next, and so on. The category this is under on the right will lead one to other one-offs in this series. This will be a bit …
I realized after the first one of these that I called it "Story and a Song" but I do "song and a story" instead. Oh well. This is two songs and a very small story. It's almost not even really a story, more a chuckle-worthy anecdote from a concert I attended a few years back. …
This will be a new series with a bit of discussion of a song and a story, just as the title says. It's a way to just talk about something for a bit that's funny, sad, or whatever. Sometimes the connection might be deep, others tenuous, it'll be what it'll be. It should in time …
The Crooked Wanderer 