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A Crock of Schmidt

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My Life Is A Song #113

October 29, 2021 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

When I’m tasked with preparing a more complex meal for supper, I sometimes enjoy a podcast rather than music. They’re a great way to busy my brain while I’m chopping and stirring. Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History is a favourite, though sadly lacking in episode volume the last few seasons. Another I like is Alan Cross’ […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: 70s, CanCon, rock, Steel River

My Life Is A Song #112

August 20, 2021 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I remember this song and not much more than that. There’s no witty anecdote to pair with it. No life-changing experience for which it served as soundtrack. I never owned it or dubbed it off the radio or made any concerted effort to purposefully hear it. It was just a song. It was undoubtedly popular. […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, Alphaville, music

My Life is a Song #111

April 25, 2020 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

electric guitar and amp

In 2018, we witnessed the marketing of a Japanese, luxury, crossover vehicle with a Motorhead cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil.” If that’s not jumping the shark on selling out, I don’t know what is. They might as well have painted that Acura RDX like the General Lee. And yet, it didn’t […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: 70s, Bad Company, classic rock, commercials, Levi's

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

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