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My Life Is A Song #110

November 29, 2019 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

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A good hook makes a hit song, but great lyrics make it unforgettable. This is particularly true of songs from our youth where lyrics verbalize what our hormone riddled minds cannot. As a young man, I felt this song represented the perfect way to dump a girlfriend. Or at least how to talk about them […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: girlfriend, lyrics, rock, Spin Doctors

My Life Is A Song #109

November 2, 2019 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Barring a dramatic leap in lifespan (come on nanobots) I’m into the second half of my stint on this planet. In that humbling context, I find it sad that I’ve yet to find my happy place. I hesitate to say sweets, even though you’re all thinking it, because, honestly, that’s more coping mechanism. Shoveling triple […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: CanCon, Doug and the Slugs, Eighties

My Life Is A Song #108

December 7, 2018 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

So much of this series is grounded in my past.  Makes sense, I guess.  I mean, it would be pretty incredible for me to relate a musical yarn from the future, unpublished song included.  I’m nostalgic, not magical.  But there is a pronounced bias in my writing towards my distant past, and that concerns me.  […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: change, men, modern, music, Post Rock, sahd

My Life Is A Song #107

November 30, 2018 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I didn’t truly understand that teachers are real people until I had school-aged children of my own.  During my entire youth, teachers weren’t so much people as they were a spectrum of Sapiens-like humanoids crafted specifically for employ in the educational field.  It rarely, if ever, dawned on me that they were regular people just […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: high school, music, Nihilist Spasm Band, noise band, teachers

My Life Is A Song #106

September 7, 2018 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

If you’ve followed this series, you know country music is my guilty pleasure.  And by country music I mean classic country, not the twangy pop rock that passes for country music nowadays.  The good, old stuff, mostly from the seventies, with a bit of early eighties and late sixties tossed in for flavour.  It’s the […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Canada, Classic Country, Discovery Train, Freedom Train, history, Merle Haggard, music, trains, USA

My Life Is A Song #105

August 10, 2018 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Since I’m on a roll with this, there are plenty more songs I don’t like.  As is the case with most people, I guess, despite what self-proclaimed “lovers of music” would have you believe.  Hell, there are entire genres I despise.  No, it’s not rap, though that is an excellent, and close, guess.  Jazz is […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Aerosmith, Beatles, classic rock, music

My Life Is A Song #104

March 16, 2018 by acrockofschmidt 1 Comment

In My Life Is A Song #103, I abused you with a song I don’t much like.  I thought that was an interesting twist on the established modus operandi of this blog series so why the hell not roll with it.  Here’s another song I don’t like.  In fact, this is one I loathe.  I […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: music, names, songs, unisex, Van Halen

My Life Is A Song #103

March 9, 2018 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

Memory is perplexing, and unfair.  I can’t remember the funniest thing my kids did just last week but I can recall countless inane moments from thirty years ago in vivid detail.  I’d much rather have gloriously detailed memories of my children’s lives than the pointless goings-on of a grade five geography class back in 1983, […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, dance, Eighties, hair metal, high school, rock, Whitesnake

My Life Is A Song #102

December 29, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Connections.  Arguably one of the top five non-fictional, science programs of all time, Connections was a stellar late-seventies BBC program about science and history and how seemingly unrelated events combined to get us to where we are today.  Or in the case of its original broadcast, 1978.  I became infatuated with this program in my […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Connections, country, music, radio, TV, vintage

My Life is a Song #101

August 4, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

This has been an odd summer, mostly because it has actually been a summer.  Not that Calgary is renowned for its summers, but last year we had near perpetual spring.  And not the “yay, winter is over and the tulips are blooming” kind of spring but rather the “dear god, when will this rain end” […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, Eagles, Eighties, nostalgia, rock, summer, sun

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