I’ve been in and out of town most of the month. But now, that October is just about over, it’s time to leave the obligatory post.
In search of an October theme, I remembered U2 had an album named October. This was their second album and was released in 1981. Here is the opening track, “Gloria” included with lyrics. A very spiritual song and some of the band’s finest work, in my opinion.
Cheers!
I meant to start writing more posts, but September has been pretty busy with weddings and traveling, not to mention football. Well, ok, I really haven’t spent much time keeping up with football this year. However, I did see the last 2 minutes of the ECU/VA Tech game where ECU sealed a 35-28 victory. Saw it on the TV in the lobby in the Atlantic 19 Hotel in Virginia Beach as I was waiting on the rest of our group to arrive to go to dinner.
Yes, so a bunch of us were in Virginia Beach for the Neptune Festival the last weekend of September. Unfortunately, with the winds and rains, many of the events on the boardwalk were cancelled. Fortunately, the main event, the sand sculpture competition, was still held, which we got to check out. And the vendors were moved inside of the convention center, which was down the road a bit from the boardwalk.
Overall, it was a good weekend even though the schedule had to be modified. But that’s not what I came here to talk about….
The real reason for this post was really to do a check-in and post a song. And what better song to remind us that September isn’t all that bad than a song from 1970s college radio favorites, Big Star, entitled “September Gurls” from their 1974 LP “Radio City.”
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything here, or logged into here, for that matter. So when I logged in, I saw that I needed to download some updates. All part of quality control for this site. And speaking of which, here’s a song by Jurassic 5 called “Quality Control” to set the tone….
A while back, I was trying to deconstruct the hooks in Nas’s “It Ain’t Hard To Tell.” from 1994’s Illmatic album. More specifically, I was interested in the looped “Dada Da Da” at the beginning of the track, also featured throughout the track. There was something very catchy about it, so I decided to search on the interwebs for the answer. Continue reading It’s All Kool & The Gang