Last week, Sony/Legacy announced a deluxe reissue of George Michael’s second solo album, 1990’s Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1. Coincidentally, when that announcement was made, the Blerd Radio team was putting the finishing touches on a podcast episode devoted to that particular album. So join me (Mike Joseph) and my partners Michael Parr and Doctor Z for a deep-dive exploration into the decidedly introspective follow-up to the mega selling Faith. While not as commercially successful-or anywhere near as pop friendly-as its predecessor, Listen Without Prejudice has become a […]
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bLISTerd: The 20 Best Holiday Songs Of All Time (Part 2)
You can check out the first half of our list here . 10. Vince Guaraldi Trio “Christmas Time Is Here” Christmas means a lot of things to a lot of people, but one thing common to all are the memories. We all have them. In fact, ask many people and some of their earliest memories revolve around Christmas. Gifts they received, places they went, traditions their families held……Christmas is where memories are made. I place my memories into 3 distinct categories, […]
Blerd’s Notes: A Guide to the Music of George Michael (Part One)
It was a Saturday night (actually a Sunday morning) in the summer of 1983, and I was watching “New York Hot Tracks”, one of several local shows that devoted itself to the then novel concept of playing music videos. Being a music geek at even this tender age (and being allowed to stay up WAY past my bedtime), things like this brought me way more pleasure than you’d expect from a 7 year old. One night, they played a video […]
Having Faith Once Again: George Michael’s Pop Masterpiece, Revisited
“Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”‘s not the type of song any great songwriter would like to leave as a musical legacy, and George Michael knew that when he decided to split Wham! up in 1986. After four successful years of making easily digestible pop/dance anthems with (questionably talented) partner Andrew Ridgeley, George retreated into the studio with his sights on making an adult pop album that would resonate with fans in the same manner as the then demigods of […]
The Careless Whispers of Jim James
One thing I didn’t mention on the site was that I got to see My Morning Jacket perform live about two weeks ago. It was the second time I’d seen the band, but it was the first time I’d gotten to see them right at the edge of the fucking stage. How close was I? Close enough that if Jim James had dandruff and shook his hair at me, I would have been blinded by the shards of his scalp. […]