http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/posts/tags/aor/page/1/ Songs I Like en Vox Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:04:00 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss aor http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/gotta-wash-that-snake-right-out-of-my-head.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/gotta-wash-that-snake-right-out-of-my-head.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/gotta-wash-that-snake-right-out-of-my-head.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:04:00 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad69213320004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad69213320004-50si" alt="05 - Fool for your loving" /></a> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fae8c390bb000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fae8c390bb000b-50si" alt="11 - Fool For Your Loving" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Why oh why has Whitesnake's "Fool For Your Loving" been running through my head for the last week? It's not that I have any affinity for the lyrics: "A hard-lovin' woman like you just makes a hard-lovin' man." What the hell does that even mean, ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/gotta-wash-that-snake-right-out-of-my-head.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad69213720004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rock 80s aor 00s uk deep purple david coverdale whitesnake bernie marsden mick moody doug aldrich company of snakes reb beach neil murray http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/aor-addendum-new-england.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/aor-addendum-new-england.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/aor-addendum-new-england.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 19 May 2008 15:30:22 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad689747d0004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad689747d0004-50si" alt="NEW ENGLAND - Don&#39;t Ever Wanna Lose Ya" /></a> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad688954d0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad688954d0005-50si" alt="Tomorrow Night - Shoes" /></a> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad68895680005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad68895680005-50si" alt="The darkness-Love is only a feeling" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> There was one more minor AOR hit I wanted to include in my last post, but there was no audio file to go into the Seeqpod player. "Don't Ever Want To Lose You Ya" by New England was one of many songs I taped off the radio in 1979, but never got th... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/aor-addendum-new-england.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fae8baf410000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rock 70s shoes aor darkness 00s uk new england power pop wava jimmy waldo hirsh gardner http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/touch.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/touch.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/touch.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 17 May 2008 15:27:14 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fae8ba4a61000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fae8ba4a61000b-50si" alt="01 Don&#39;t You Know What Love Is" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The pinnacle of my used-record-store-owning career came when a guy from the next county called and said there was a song he'd been looking for for ten years, but nobody knows what it is, and the chorus goes "don't you know what love is," and-- and... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/touch.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fae8ba4ae9000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rock 80s aor touch wava mark mangold castle donnington http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/my-first-new-wave-record.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/my-first-new-wave-record.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/my-first-new-wave-record.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:05:41 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cebe3450003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cebe3450003-50si" alt="12 - yachting type" /></a> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cebd4030002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cebd4030002-50si" alt="01 The Shape Of Things To Come" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> For a couple years, roughly 1978-80, "new wave" music could be heard on rock (or AOR, "album-oriented rock") radio stations. Either new wave had yet to forge a distinct identity, or rock fans had yet to notice anything different and voice their d... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/my-first-new-wave-record.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cec12150003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> 70s radio 80s aor uk power pop wava http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/capital-centre-memories.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/capital-centre-memories.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/capital-centre-memories.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:57:48 -0700 After hearing about it for close to twenty years, I finally saw Heavy Metal Parking Lot over the weekend. It's a low-budget documentary of the parking-lot party activities before a 1986 Judas Priest concert at the Capital Centre in Largo, Marylan... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/capital-centre-memories.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48d092af40001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rock 70s 80s aor maryland seeqpod capital centre http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/the-mars-volta-reminds-everyone-of-king-crimson.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/the-mars-volta-reminds-everyone-of-king-crimson.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/the-mars-volta-reminds-everyone-of-king-crimson.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:21:28 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cfc79f70001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cfc79f70001-50si" alt="The Mars Volta - Goliath" /></a> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cfc78b70001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cfc78b70001-50si" alt="King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man" /></a> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cddc0270002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cddc0270002-50si" alt="April Wine - 21st Century Schizoid Man" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I'm not the first one to notice that "Goliath" from the new Mars Volta album sounds like King Crimson's 1969 prog-rock classic, "21st Century Schizoid Man," but I did arrive at that conclusion independently. At just after the 4-minute mark they a... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/the-mars-volta-reminds-everyone-of-king-crimson.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cddbc220002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rock 70s 60s aor 00s king crimson mars volta prog april wine http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/rockin-out-with-michael-schenker.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/rockin-out-with-michael-schenker.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/rockin-out-with-michael-schenker.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:37:37 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398be868e0005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398be868e0005-50si" alt="MSG - Feels Like a Good Thing" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> There were four of us in the same grade growing up: Kevin at the top of the street, me in the next house down, Mario across the street from me, and Robert two houses down. When we started buying records in junior high we planned for maximum varie... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398be70b30002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rock 80s scorpions hard rock aor ufo msg michael schenker capital centre http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/speaking-of-night.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/speaking-of-night.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/speaking-of-night.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:36:10 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b2e97e0004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b2e97e0004-50si" alt="06 - Angels At My Gate" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Here's the further post on Chris Thompson, guitarist and singer with Night, that I alluded to a few days ago. Some months ago, while reading Russian linguist George Starostin's record reviews on Only Solitaire (warning: do not start reading Only ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/speaking-of-night.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b2ebb70003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rock 70s aor manfred mann hipgnosis storm thorgerson chris thompson http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/night-redux.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/night-redux.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/night-redux.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:30:02 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b2a3160001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b2a3160001-50si" alt="Hot Summer Night" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Maybe the universe really will give you what you want: just the other day I posted a song by Night and mentioned that I really wanted their song "Hot Summer Nights" but couldn't find it. And voilá, my old record-selling partner Platters That Matt... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/night-redux.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b2c1a00004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> night 80s stevie nicks aor chris thompson stevie lange http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/unrelaxing-with-stevie-lange.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/unrelaxing-with-stevie-lange.html?_c=feed-rss http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/unrelaxing-with-stevie-lange.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:14:48 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/audio/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b1b9730005.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b1b9730005-50si" alt="Night - The Stripper" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Another of my guilty pleasures is the horror fiction of R. Chetwynd-Hayes, "Britain's Prince of Chill." He put out a huge amount of short horror fiction through the 70s and 80s, and I will qualify "horror fiction" by noting that his stories are j... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://burlveneer.vox.com/library/post/unrelaxing-with-stevie-lange.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b17a380001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rock night 80s aor vincent price chris thompson stevie lange chetwynd-hayes