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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 #110

November 29, 2019 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

vintage guitar and amp

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 #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 #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

My Life Is A Song #100

March 17, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

There was a time when today was earmarked for a momentous post.  My Life is a Song turns 100 today.  And while this series won’t be joining Toronto Rocks, Q107’s Top 10 at 10, or VH1’s Classic Albums in the annals of awesome music shows, making a weekly appearance for nearly two consecutive years is […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: CanCon, Folk, music, rock, songwriter

My Life Is A Song #99

March 10, 2017 by acrockofschmidt 1 Comment

By the latter half of the Nineties, life had drastically changed for me.  I had reached the quarter century mark, my schooling was entirely finished, I had a job, and I was living in a new city in a new province thousands of kilometres from “home”.  I was an adult. I was certainly enjoying my […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: 90s, cool, Foo Fighters, rock

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