{"id":84080,"date":"2014-05-18T12:53:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T16:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=84080"},"modified":"2024-10-27T17:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:50:06","slug":"beach-shuffle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=84080","title":{"rendered":"Beach Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14189233776_f8a05dee2b_z.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14189233776_f8a05dee2b_z.jpg\" alt=\"14189233776_f8a05dee2b_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14189233776_f8a05dee2b_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14189233776_f8a05dee2b_z-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14189233776_f8a05dee2b_z-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/14189233776_f8a05dee2b_z-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAt the beach. The salty air and the smell of the ocean, the seaweed, the fish, the salt \u2026 it&#8217;s recuperative. Still have a lot of work to do, and needed to beach to gather my thoughts. Songs playing during my trip down here and back. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Battery&#8221; &#8211; Metallica, from their <i>Through the Never<\/i> soundtrack. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/metallica-through-the-never-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loved the film.<\/a> The songs are all the tried and true ones, done for a shrieking throbbing audience in a huge stadium. So it&#8217;s a great sound, but with that live exhilarating feel. &#8220;Battery&#8221; is out of control. So fast. Trujillo chose this one as his audition piece, and you can see the other band members be taken aback for a bit. It is one of their fastest songs. He blew everyone away.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DAvzpIJ2V-U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Schei\u00dfe&#8221; &#8211; Lady Gaga, at her most campy and ridiculous. Speaking German. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Hard Land&#8221; &#8211; Bruce Springsteen. Yearning, aspirational, hard-bitten, hopeful\/despairing, gritty. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be Careful What You Ask For&#8221; &#8211; Everclear. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry I got lazy in me. This isn&#8217;t what you wanted when you married me.&#8221; This is from <i>Invisible Stars<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honey Pie&#8221; &#8211; Barbra Streisand. Bless her for this cover. It actually sounds like it&#8217;s from the vaudeville era in her hands.  Little clinky piano jaunting along in the background.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is This What I Get For Loving You?&#8221; &#8211; The Ronettes. It&#8217;s such a unique sound. We&#8217;ve discussed it before. There&#8217;s this sense of SPACE between the Ronettes and the background music. They are so far ahead of the sound, and yet the balance is still perfect. It always sounds like they&#8217;re singing in a huge warehouse space, with the band across the room from them. I don&#8217;t know why it works so well but it does.  The songs, too \u2026 so good, so full of love and hope and youth. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rocket 88&#8221; &#8211; Jackie Brenston &#038; His Delta Cats. Recorded at Sun Records. It has the Sun sound: alive, in-the-moment, visceral and immediate. There&#8217;s a hell of a lot of band members too, at least it sounds like: there are horns, a great piano, guitars, drums \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=47181\">Sun Records is a small damn place<\/a>, so they must have been on top of each other. You can hear the band members calling out stuff to each other in this take. &#8220;PLAY IT, RAYMOND!&#8221;, etc.  Classic Sun feel. <i>You are there.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)&#8221; &#8211; Green Day. A game-changer for Green Day. Nobody would expect a sweet melancholy song from them, with what sounds like a string section at one point. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Baby, I Love You&#8221; &#8211; The Ronettes. Well, consider me happy. A Ronettes cluster already. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Island In the Sun&#8221; &#8211; Weezer. Wow, totally forgot about this song and didn&#8217;t even realize I owned it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Poison Ivy League&#8221; &#8211; Elvis Presley. From <i>Roustabout<\/i>, where Elvis starred with Barbara Stanwyck of all people. It is so stupid and so entertaining. This song opens the film, with Elvis poking fun at the Ivy Leaguers in his audience.  It&#8217;s a dramatic example of how the TRULY dangerous and destabilizing Elvis was &#8220;tamed&#8221; in these big Hollywood movies.  The &#8220;danger&#8221; here is so lame that you can almost feel the anxiety people felt when faced with the sheer phenomenon of Elvis.  He crashed apart the entire status quo. The films didn&#8217;t deal with that (although <i>Jailhouse Rock<\/i> and <i>King Creole<\/i> made attempts to actually EXPLORE the danger of Elvis). The films placed him in a tame world where snarking at frat boys was as dangerous as Elvis got. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Creep&#8221; &#8211; the <i>Glee<\/i> cast version of Radiohead&#8217;s monster smash hit. It&#8217;s a duet between Lea Michele and Dean Geyer.  It&#8217;s good. But some of the vocal pyrotechnics seem to take away from the sheer power of the song, as it is written. Like &#8220;I want a perfect soul.&#8221; Just sing those fucking lyrics, don&#8217;t go up and down and around the notes \u2026 FEEL what those lyrics mean, please. The song is brutal, when you listen to the lyrics. There&#8217;s a reason why it &#8220;hit&#8221; so hard, why it was so huge and omnipresent, one of THOSE songs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=62202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is still the best version of the song I have ever heard in my life. (Scroll down.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About a Girl&#8221; &#8211; Nirvana. Goosebumps. Still. After hearing it, what, 980 times? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roi&#8221; &#8211; The Breeders. So hot. Needs to be played LOUD. I get lost in this song. Somewhere trapped in its molecules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tie Your Mother Down&#8221; &#8211; Queen. Like Cary Grant, Freddie Mercury is sui generis. Cannot be replaced. This is from their phenomenal &#8220;Live at Wembley Stadium&#8221; album, where \u2026 I mean, honestly, it&#8217;s like he&#8217;s a Pharaoh. Like, that big.  A deity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stratford-on-Guy&#8221; &#8211; Liz Phair. Remember when you used to listen to albums, not just tracks? I listened to this album so much that I have memorized the track order. The whole double-album is a story, a narrative. Even now, with iTunes, I always listen to a new album in the order the artist intended &#8211; at least once. I want to hear their track choice.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m So Lonesome I Could Cry&#8221; &#8211; Elvis Presley, from his gigantic simulcast 1973 concert <i>Aloha from Hawaii<\/i>. He introduces it by saying: &#8220;I&#8217;d like to sing a song that&#8217;s probably the saddest song I&#8217;ve ever heard.&#8221; Wail it, country boy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Friends In Low Places&#8221; &#8211; Garth Brooks. No, I don&#8217;t think you &#8220;ruined&#8221; anyone&#8217;s &#8220;black tie affair,&#8221; Garth. Don&#8217;t flatter yourself. People are busy living their lives and not as snobby as you think. I love the song, don&#8217;t get me wrong, but the chip-on-shoulder from today&#8217;s country music is so tiresome. &#8220;I wear lingerie from WalMart and look as good as those models on TV!&#8221; Uhm, I actually don&#8217;t believe that that is true, although I am glad you like your underwear.  Besides, Garth, you&#8217;re a bazillionaire. Just stop it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Colonel Fraser&#8221; &#8211; Jerry O&#8217;Sullivan. The uilleann pipes fascinate me, and those who are masters at it, like O&#8217;Sullivan, are true magicians to me. Watching them play \u2026 it looks like they&#8217;re an animal wrangler or something. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Quick One While He&#8217;s Away&#8221; &#8211; Green Day, from <i>21st Century Breakdown<\/i>, the followup to the monster <i>American Idiot<\/i>. Two really good albums. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Falling&#8221; &#8211; The Civil Wars. Ouch. Their stuff is so intense. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tomorrow Is a Long Time&#8221; (take 2) &#8211; Elvis Presley. It takes a while for the take to come together. Elvis covering Bob Dylan. The end result is haunting, absolutely beautiful, that steel guitar.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sway&#8221; &#8211; Michael Bubl\u00e9. I find him to be completely ridiculous and also completely entertaining. Also, his duet with Robbie Williams on Robbie Williams&#8217; latest swing album is fantastic. I can&#8217;t get enough of men doing duets. It used to happen all the time. I wish it would happen more. Male voices singing together? Pleasing!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never Enough&#8221; &#8211; Eminem.  A driving relentless beat. At a certain point, Eminem could only rap about fame. It happens to all rock stars. Fame is so isolating, there is no world outside of being that famous. And lots of people are famous, but very few are AS famous as Eminem is. It&#8217;s a distortion. His songs reflect that. He is self-aware, but its self-awareness in that distorted bubble. He addresses his critics, as he always does. He addresses his fans, his mom, his peers. The point of the song is that: Even at my level, it&#8217;s &#8220;never enough&#8221;.  More, more, more, more. Honest. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fool&#8217;s Paradise&#8221; &#8211; Buddy Holly. Sweet, yet underneath it is a grinding juke-joint piano. Cool sound.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Way Back to Paradise&#8221; &#8211; the miraculous Audra McDonald. A phenom. From her first album. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mockingbird&#8221; &#8211; Carly Simon and James Taylor. I grew up listening to this. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every Little Thing&#8221; &#8211; The Beatles, from <i>Beatles For Sale<\/i>. A deceptively simple song. It&#8217;s really an inner monologue, with a sudden totally dramatic sound on the chorus. The &#8220;ba-boom&#8221; of the percussion. DRAMA. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Once In Your Life&#8221; &#8211; Lucy Kaplansky. I love her so much. I&#8217;ve seen her live a couple of times. If she comes to your area, do yourself a favor and check her out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without You&#8221; &#8211; Dixie Chicks. Chick can sing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a Little Help From My Friends&#8221; &#8211; The Beatles. This song always <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=75249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">makes me think of Betsy<\/a>. We would spend our recesses in 5th grade huddled over a turntable listening to <i>Sgt. Pepper<\/i> over and over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You&#8221; &#8211; Billy Squier. Holy shit. Does anyone remember this? Billy Squier singing with the entire team at MTV. LOOK AT THIS.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QPf2snTB2wo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Am I the Man&#8221; &#8211; the mind-blowing Jackie Wilson. It&#8217;s hard to believe anyone that talented has ever graced this planet. He&#8217;s out of control. He was apparently so electric live that people lost their freakin&#8217; minds. Elvis saw him in Vegas when he was 20, 21 years old, and it made him completely up his game. He saw the competition, and his name was Jackie Wilson, and he knew he needed to be better, go deeper. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Coventry Carol&#8221; &#8211; The Mediaeval Baebes. Hey, I forgot about them! I have totally lost track of them. This is gorgeous and haunting. Sounds like it is actually being sung in a freezing cold monastery in the early scary cloistered days of Christianity. <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pUFQoNW7NPs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Femme Fatale&#8221; &#8211; The Velvet Underground &#038; Nico. You can hear almost a doo-wop echo here, a 60s girl group feeling \u2026 yet filtered through \u2026 Nico.  It&#8217;s awesome. Of course I always think of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=77609\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lester Bangs&#8217; piece about Nico<\/a> when her name comes up. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Baby Please Don&#8217;t Go&#8221; &#8211; MC5. Primal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believin'&#8221; &#8211; Journey. A great song in and of itself. Revitalized first by <i>Glee<\/i>&#8216;s amazing version in their premiere show \u2026 and then again revitalized by <i>The Sopranos<\/i> finale. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?&#8221; &#8211; the freakin&#8217; Thompson Twins covering Cole Porter, from the really great album <i>Red Hot + Blue<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Early Blues&#8221; &#8211; Bear Cat Phillips. You can hear the world changing in such music. You can hear the underground pushing to the surface. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trying to Get to You&#8221; &#8211; Elvis Presley. This, of course, was one of his earliest songs &#8211; but this version is from the &#8220;informal&#8221; part of his 1968 TV special. The &#8220;black leather&#8221; part. It&#8217;s one of the most ferocious and exciting live performances I&#8217;ve ever seen. And he&#8217;s just freakin&#8217; sitting there, singing the song. But hoo-boy, stand back. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=41139\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrote a whole post about it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sweet and Easy to Love&#8221; &#8211; the great Roy Orbison. Recorded, like so many of the folks who show up on my Shuffle, at Sun Records. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sweet Child O&#8217; Mine&#8221; &#8211; Guns &#8216;n Roses. A classic. I made the mistake of choosing to do this song for karaoke one night in Cape Cod. When the song finally was over, I felt like I had just completed a marathon. That shit is HARD.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heaven on Their Minds&#8221; &#8211; Judas, from <i>Jesus Christ Superstar<\/i>.  Judas knows the score. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Preachin&#8217; Blues (Up Jumped the Devil&#8221; &#8211; Robert Johnson.  Powerful and strange. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Panic Beach&#8221; &#8211; Maria McKee. One of the best voices of her generation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mercy&#8221; &#8211; Alanis Morissette. Alanis, what is happening here? I love it, don&#8217;t get me wrong, but I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congratulations Honey&#8221; &#8211; Baby Washington &#038; The Plants. LOVE. IT. I love songs about breakups that are sarcastic and show that the singer is NOT being a good sport about it. I have a long list of &#8220;bad sport&#8221; songs that are awesome when I&#8217;m going through a breakup myself. Fuck being a good sport. Or, being a good sport has its time and place. But sometimes it&#8217;s awesome to say, &#8220;You&#8217;re a douche.&#8221; Or, to quote Annie Lennox in the quintessential bad sport song: &#8220;You hurt me. And I hate you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I Fell&#8221; &#8211; The Beatles. The harmonies are so perfect. So satisfying. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m Looking for a Woman&#8221; &#8211; Bo Diddley. So good, sexy as hell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You Sexy Thing (I Believe in Miracles)&#8221; &#8211; Hot Chocolate. I wonder how many times this song has been used in movies. Is there some website that collates such facts? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Devil in Disguise&#8221; &#8211; Elvis Presley. I loved that <i>Godzilla<\/i> used this song during the destruction of Las Vegas. Perfection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hallelujah I Love Her So&#8221; &#8211; Ray Charles. Live. He&#8217;s on fire. The whole track is on fire. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Coventry Carol&#8221; &#8211; Alison Moyet. Wow, blast from the past. This was from Volume 1 of those <i>Very Special Christmas<\/i> albums they put out every year, whoever &#8220;they&#8221; are. I love the &#8220;Coventry Carol&#8221;, so scary. Second time it&#8217;s appeared on this Shuffle. Annie Lennox&#8217;s version from her recent Christmas album is phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll Never Tell&#8221; &#8211; the amazing Brendan Benson. He hasn&#8217;t written a song I don&#8217;t like. One of my favorite guys working today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Shoals of Herring&#8221; &#8211; Oscar Isaac, from the <i>Inside Llewyn Davis<\/i> soundtrack, which is lovely. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=74384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I loved the film. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chaos &#038; Piss&#8221; &#8211; Pink. She&#8217;s such a rock star. The perfect rock star voice. I love that she was not a one-hit wonder. I love that she&#8217;s still around. I adore her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget to Smile&#8221; &#8211; Faye Adams. The chick is so talented, so operatic, so dramatic. She SWINGS it. Her voice swings, her vibrato swings, her spirit swings. She doesn&#8217;t do anything halfway. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Little Child&#8221; &#8211; The Beatles. Groovy, baby. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up &#8216;n Down&#8221; &#8211; Britney Spears. From <i>Femme Fatale<\/i>. She&#8217;s out of her mind, and she is also awesome. I&#8217;m a huge Britney fan and supporter. &#8220;Get inside my dirty mind!&#8221; she sings. No thanks, Brit-Brit!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Coventry Carol&#8221; &#8211; Okay, it is a Coventry Carol conspiracy! This version is by the amazing Monks of Glenstal Abbey. I have a couple of their albums. I&#8217;m glad they exist. The sound they produce is incredible, primal, bringing you back in time. And it sounds like this was recorded in a cathedral. There&#8217;s a ton of SPACE around the voices, and an echo. Beautiful. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve Lost That Loving Feeling&#8221; &#8211; Elvis Presley, live in Vegas. As always, he was unable to perform without giving 100%. This song was so personal for him, so real. Listen to what happens to him when he screams, &#8220;BABY! SOME-THING IS DY-YING \u2026&#8221; Ouch. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without Me&#8221; &#8211; Eminem. Play this song at a dead party and watch the dance floor fill up. And watch normally reticent people scream in unison: &#8220;FUCK YOU DEBBIE!&#8221; And of course, he references Elvis not once, but twice, in &#8220;Without Me&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;La-Do-Dada&#8221; &#8211; Dale Hawkins. He was so brilliant. Rockabilly, sure, but his sound was more prescient, prophetic \u2026 he was leading us into the psychedelic 60s, into folk music, into the breaking-down of different genres. You listen to &#8220;La-Do-Dada&#8221;, recorded in 1958, and it feels like it could have been recorded in 1964, 1965. It&#8217;s far ahead. It&#8217;s a completely absurd song. There is no meaning in it. It&#8217;s all about its sound. It was a Top 40 hit for Hawkins (one of the few he had).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Power of My Love&#8221; &#8211; Elvis gets downright X-rated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ballad of Hollywood Jack and the Rage Kage&#8221; &#8211; Tenacious D. So ridiculous. So 100% awesome. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My Bucket&#8217;s Got a Hole In It&#8221; &#8211; Ricky Nelson, who is totally awesome, but had to adjust the lyrics, removing the reference to &#8220;won&#8217;t hold no beer&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=74384\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s a post with a bunch of versions of the song.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmastime?&#8221; &#8211; Band-Aid. To quote my friend Brenda: &#8220;Yes. They do know. They just don&#8217;t care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You Left the Water Running&#8221; &#8211; Huey Lewis &#038; The News, from his really fun album <i>Four Chords and Several Years Ago<\/i>, where he covered the great blues\/rock songs that most influenced him. I was in a video for one of the songs. Well, you can&#8217;t see me, but I was there! Huey Lewis was my first concert ever. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=38487\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post about Huey Lewis here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look at Little Sister&#8221; &#8211; Stevie Ray Vaughan. Creepy! Rocking! Will always make me think of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=39354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this guy<\/a>. We listened to Stevie Ray Vaughan all the time. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You Should Hear How She Talks About You&#8221; &#8211; Melissa Manchester. Holy mackerel. Time machine moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over Me&#8221; &#8211; Lisa Marie Presley. Great. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Last&#8221; &#8211; Lou Rawls &#038; Dianne Reeves. So romantic you want to kill yourself. They are so great together. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s Too Late&#8221; &#8211; Buddy Holly. Sad and sweet and young. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Castle of Dromore&#8221; &#8211; The Clancy Brothers &#038; Tommy Makem. So far this Shuffle has been light on the Micks and I&#8217;ve missed them. This is soft and gentle and gorgeous. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yellow Coat&#8221; &#8211; Screamin&#8217; Jay Hawkins. My God, he is out of control. His music explodes with sex and rage and darkness and sin and expression. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Do Not Hook Up&#8221; &#8211; Kelly Clarkson. Me neither, sister. Sing it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No Teasin&#8217; Around&#8221; &#8211; the awesome Billy Emerson, one of the Sun Records artists. Recorded at Sun, which is obvious. The sound is as distinctive as a fingerprint, regardless of the artist. This song is made to be slow-danced to on a hot muggy night on a crowded dance floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boil the Breakfast Early&#8221; &#8211; The Chieftains. I grew up with these albums playing all the time. I didn&#8217;t question it. The background music of my childhood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rock &#038; Roll High School&#8221; &#8211; The Ramones. Hell to the yes.  That&#8217;s as awesome a place to stop as any. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beach. The salty air and the smell of the ocean, the seaweed, the fish, the salt \u2026 it&#8217;s recuperative. Still have a lot of work to do, and needed to beach to gather my thoughts. 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