Tag: Vinyl
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon’s Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to arbitrarily choose an actor and then connect them to another actor via a film that both actors have appeared in together, repeating this process to try and find the shortest path that ultimately leads to prolific…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Tribute to Artists Lost In 2020
Van Halen – Eruption / You Really Got Me Eddie Van Halen Died Oct 6, 2020 Years of jumping around on stage took a toll on Eddie. He had hip-replacement surgery in 1999. He also had cancer in his throat and tongue, which caused him to lose part of his tongue. That cancer claimed his…
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Closing Time Virtual Concert Series presents Egg Drop Soup
Egg Drop Soup is a three piece, all female punk band based in Los Angeles, California. Although they aren’t originally from LA their music has the potential to take the Los Angeles music scene by storm with it’s burning intensity. Together their voices amplify resistance towards the patriarchy, giving that classic girl power spice to…
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Woodstock 69′
Woodstock began as a recording studio, but then spiraled into what we now know today as one of the defining factors of the 60’s. Two men, Michael Lang and Artie Kirnfeld had the idea to slap a recording studio in Woodstock, New York, but their business partners John Roberts, the man with the trust fund,…
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Separating the Art from the Artist
I’m sure there’s a few artists that pop into your head right away when thinking about separating the art from the artist. Many of us struggle with the fact that our favorite songs were made by people who did some terrible things, or acted in a controversial way. When confronting yourself and others on this…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Music Used In Iconic Film Scenes
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Music Used in Iconic Film Scenes 1. Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith, 1975) – Dazed & Confused, (1993) This movie was directed by Richard Linklater. Sweet Emotion was used in the intro scene as the 1970 Pontiac GTO pulls in slow motion on the last day of school in…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Women Who Can “Really” Sing
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Women Who Can Sing (Really) 1. Karen Dalton – Little Bit of Rain, First Track (1969) Although Dalton didn’t write her own songs, Fred Neil actually writing this one, she did do her own adaptions of them. Dalton quickly became entrenched in the Greenwich Village folk musical scene…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Our Favorite One Hit Wonders
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Our Favorite One Hit Wonders 1. Mickey – Toni basil, Word of Mouth (1981) The original lyric in the chorus was Kitty instead of Mickey and recorded by a group called Racey. While it’s a one hit wonder for Basil, the songwriters have other hits with…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Awesome Soundtracks for Questionable Films
Listen along to the Playlist Awesome Soundtracks for Questionable Films Notes from Awesome Soundtracks for Questionable Films 1. My Best Friend’s Girl – The Cars, Over The Edge (1979) Over the Edge is an American coming of age crime drama directed by Jonathan Kaplan and released in May 1979. The film, based on actual events, had a limited theatrical…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Roadtrip Edition
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Roadtrip Edition 1. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) – Proclaimers, (1988) This song didn’t become a hit in the US until 1993, when used in Benny & Joon. It was used after the director heard the song being played on his personal stereo by Mary Ann Waterston.…
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