Tag Archives: The Kinks
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Insert Foot and his cat make a Christmas playlist
Insert Foot’s Christmas playlist. My cat and I just put together our very first playlist of 14 essential holiday songs and it’s super exciting. Of course, I did most of the work. I say that because my cat, who answers to “Marlo” (he does, eventually, the third or fourth time…
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REWIND: Welcome fall with Earth, Wind and Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 25, 2018. Alessio Neri/STAFF. This week was, technically, the beginning of fall. I say “technically” because I don’t trust weather anymore, so I keep expecting it to spike back up to 115 degrees…
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Insert Foot: Making classic music a family affair for these famous siblings
Insert Foot Vs. National Siblings Day. Saturday was Siblings Day, which we celebrate by posting photos on social media of siblings harmoniously pretending to get along, not trading blows and not throwing a deceased parent’s false teeth at each other at a funeral home. Don’t ask. I didn’t meet…
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REWIND: Say goodbye to summer with Don Henley, the Beach Boys, Green Day
Don Henley, deciding that autumn is not that great, either. Courtesy. You may be expecting a Labor Day column full of songs about the working man, but some idiot decided to use that theme on May Day. But in the United States this weekend is the unofficial end of…
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RIFF Rewind Interlude—The best songs of 1960-1966
If I’ve gotten one complaint more than any other about this column, it’s literally all of 1979. But aside from that it’s definitely snubbing Pink Floyd. But other than that…OK, there’s a lot of stuff, you all hate me. For the purposes of today’s edition, though, the complaint I’m talking…
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RIFF Rewind — A time machine for your ears: 1970
So you know how when I started this endeavor I set rules? Five songs per year, one song per band, qualifies in year of release, listed in chronological order? Pretty straightforward, right? For 1970 I’m breaking that first one. I didn’t realize it until this exercise but 1970 was…