When the Beatles first played Comiskey Park, the top ticket was $5.50. When Paul McCartney played Wrigley Field this weekend, a beer cost $7.50 and the top ticket was $250.
Still worth it.
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30 Day Music Challenge Day 09 – A Song You Can Dance To
I don’t dance at all (maybe I should have gone with the 1992 Genesis hit I Can’t Dance), but this song has a funky beat and you can dance to it. Or so I’ve been told.
30 Day Music Challenge Day 08 – A Song That You Know All The Words To
I was going to write out all of the lyrics to Bust A Move, but how would you know that I didn’t just copy them for a website? I guess you’ll just have to take my word for it. I will say that, back in the day, I did buy this song as a cassingle. Also, if my best friend Harry has a brother Larry who is getting married within the week, why would he ask me to be his best man? Why not his brother Harry? Did they have some sort of falling out? And, if so, why would he ask his brother’s best friend to fill in with little notice?
Monday Night Commute
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, and a late afternoon chat about listening to music on the drive home has put me in the mood to do another.
| Why Do You Love Me | Garbage | Absolute Garbage | 6/13/2011 5:30 PM |
| Free Fallin’ | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Greatest Hits | 6/13/2011 5:34 PM |
| Coda | The Cast Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer | Once More, With Feeling | 6/13/2011 5:35 PM |
| The Humpty Dance | Digital Underground | Millennium Hip-Hop Party | 6/13/2011 5:39 PM |
| Walk This Way | Run-D.M.C. | Millennium Hip-Hop Party | 6/13/2011 5:43 PM |
| Cradle of Love | Billy Idol | Billy Idol: Greatest Hits | 6/13/2011 5:48 PM |
| Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da | The Beatles | The Beatles (White Album) [Disc 1] [2009 Stereo Remaster] | 6/13/2011 5:51 PM |
| Happy Together | The Turtles | AM Gold: 1967 | 6/13/2011 5:54 PM |
| Our Lips Are Sealed | The Go-Go’s | Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion | 6/13/2011 5:56 PM |
| Start Me Up | The Rolling Stones | Forty Licks (Disc 2) | 6/13/2011 6:00 PM |
| Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [2009 Stereo Remaster] | 6/13/2011 6:02 PM |
| Smells Like Teen Spirit | Nirvana | Nevermind | 6/13/2011 6:07 PM |
| Bang | Gorky Park | Gorky Park | 6/13/2011 6:12 PM |
| Can’t Stop Fallin’ Into Love | Cheap Trick | The Greatest Hits | 6/13/2011 6:16 PM |
| I’ll Be Your Shelter | Taylor Dayne | Greatest Hits | 6/13/2011 6:20 PM |
| Pretty Penny | Stone Temple Pilots | Purple | 6/13/2011 6:24 PM |
| C’mon And Get My Love | Cathy Dennis featuring D-Mob | Move to This | 6/13/2011 6:28 PM |
| Do The Stanley | Mexican Cheerleader | Kings And Kings’ Hoots | 6/13/2011 6:33 PM |
| In The Still Of The Night (I’ll Remember) | Boyz II Men | Boyz II Men: Legacy – The Greatest Hits Collection | 6/13/2011 6:35 PM |
| Fuck And Run | Liz Phair | Exile in Guyville | 6/13/2011 6:39 PM |
| Ready To Go (U.S. Mix) | Republica | Republica | 6/13/2011 6:44 PM |
| Eight Days A Week | The Beatles | Beatles For Sale [2009 Stereo Remaster] | 6/13/2011 6:46 PM |
| Something | The Beatles | Abbey Road [2009 Stereo Remaster] | 6/13/2011 6:49 PM |
30 Day Music Challenge Day 07 – A Song That Reminds You Of A Certain Event
2005 was my first year as a White Sox season ticket holder. As the season wound down, the managed to hold off a storming Indians team and make the postseason for only the fourth time in my lifetime. Going down the stretch and heading into the playoffs, Don’t Stop Believing had become the team’s theme song, thanks mostly to Joe Crede and AJ Pierzynski. Former Journey singer Steve Perry made appearances at both the ALCS and World Series, and, finally, at the victory parade on LaSalle.
30 Day Music Challenge Day 06 – A Song That Reminds You Of Somewhere
During the summer of 2005, I took a class as part of my Master’s program at DePaul that involved a trip to Italy for 10 days. On one of our free days, we took a trip to Venice for the day. Afterwards, after dinner and some (ok, a lot of) wine, we were heading back to our home base near Lake Como when the bus driver slipped in an Oasis CD. We listened to, and sang along with, Champagne Supernova at least 3-4 times. It was the type of thing that couldn’t have been planned and is one of my lasting memories of the trip.
30 Day Music Challenge Day 05 – A Song That Reminds You Of Someone
It was the summer of 1991/2, and we had set out for a night of cruising around town. For reasons that made sense at the time, we decided to see where Harlem Avenue had its southern most ending. We ended up in Kankakee and were getting ready to start heading back home when Walking In Memphis came on the radio. We were on 57 heading north when Courtney said “Mike, are you crying?” His grandpa had died somewhat recently (or not at all) and the song brought something up. Which, looking back, is somewhat touching. At the time, in a car filled with high schoolers, it was brought up frequently and not in a good way.
30 Day Music Challenge Day 04 – A Song That Makes You Sad
Pretty much any Nirvana song could have worked here, as the sadness isn’t from the song itself, but from how Kurt’s life ended and the thought of what could have been. Would Nirvana have kept going? Would they have broken up and we’d still get the Foo Fighters?
30 Day Music Challenge Day 03 – A Song That Makes You Happy
As I’m writing this, happy isn’t necessarily the word I would use to describe my feelings about He’s A Pirate by Klaus Badelt. Composed for the first Pirates of the Carribean movie, which I have not seen, it has been used as the soundtrack to the pregame video introduction for the White Sox for 6-7 years now. When the team is going good, there’s no place I’d rather be than at the Cell just as the game is about to start.
30 Day Music Challenge Day 02 – Your Least Favorite Song
What is tougher than coming up with my least favorite song? I have nearly 4500 songs in my iTunes library, and if something is my least favorite, than it’s not going to be one of those. I went with Nookie by Limp Bizkit, which probably isn’t my least favorite song, but it represents a time and “genre” of rock that I didn’t care for at all. The whole rap/rock fusion or whatever this crap is called just did nothing for me. In fact, it pretty much turned me off from alt rock radio for 5 years or so.