Sorry, smaller post, but we've been getting vaccines, dealing with post-vaccine vibes, and general everyday weirdness. So here's a little one for your listening pleasure. Back on one of my earlier blogs, I'd posted this 12" but put the links up on SoundCloud. I thought this was pretty cool as you could listen to it and download the file if you wanted. That said, I was unexpectedly hit with a strike for posting copyrighted material, almost certainly by a copyright bot. Now, this song is available on streaming platforms and digital storefronts, sure, but neither of these versions are as they were issued on an advance promo 12" that didn't identify Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam , only that the tracks were produced by Robert Clivilles and David Cole . It genuinely had a large question mark at the top of the label and the words "Guess Who?" instead of an artist or song name. I'm sure someone thought this was an edgy tactic to get people wondering whose l...

Sorry I didn't post anything last week. I've driven to medical appointments, driven to different states, been called Jeremiah (don't know why either), argued with a valet (we were both wrong), started uploading my personal music collection to the cloud so I can stream things that will never be on streaming services (our streaming utopia is kind of a lie), and just been all around exhausted among other things. That said, I figured I'd give you a healthy post of weirdness today to make up for it. First up, anyone else remember Citizen King ? They had one fairly popular single at the end of the nineties, but that was about it. From what I understand, they changed their sound heavily for their sole major label release, 1999's Mobile Estates . It was a legitimately good record, though it wasn't breaking any rules or norms. It fit in nicely among the Becks , Cibo Mattos and Soul Coughings of the time, so I guess it was only natural that when they dropped remixes fo...

If you get the reference in the title, congratulations, here's your prize. If you didn't get it, you still get the prize. If you feel the prize is worthless, what are you doing here? Now that that's out of the way... I've never understood Italo Disco . Most of what I've heard hasn't been to my liking, but what I did like still seems weird. It feels like there is a lot of wholesale theft in Italo Disco records, covering songs, making medleys, sampling without permission. Sure, all of those things happen in just about every genre of music, but what I've seen of it in Italo Disco is pretty shameless with no attempts to hide it. Rip off Manuel Gottsching's E2-E4 and make Sueno Latino's self-titled single ? Okay, pretty cool too. Make a million bootleg medleys of recent hits? Sometimes that's alright, sometimes it's not. Cover someone else's hits and give your "group" the same name as the one you're covering but in reverse? Wi...