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morning babble / Friday 01-12-24

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Paul Russell – Lil Boo Thing cut

“Not even half way through January and I’m playing that song and thinking of warmer weather. Is that really snow for Tuesday. I am so ready for June-uary. (off to the side) Does that even make sense?”

Paul Russell – Lil Boo Thing cut

Morning Babble Intro

New Music Friday:

Happy Weekend! Survived the first full workweek of the new year. How about them goals? Keeping the focus? I have to say I’m excited because I was able to add something to my morning routine arsenal to help me Win the Day.

To go along with my morning journal entry, I enjoy a good Daily Reading

The Vagabond’s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel  – from Rolf Potts

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living  – from Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

The Daily Pressfield – from Steven Pressfield

Let’s just jump into it and go (running man clip) NEW MUSIC FRIDAY

I put together a Spotify playlist of the songs that I talked about and thought about today for New Music Friday. Click here for that!

• This first one I’m really psyched on because I had no idea that they were coming out with something new. The Black Keys (Loney Boy) – that’s not the new song, that was “Lonley Boy”. BUT – coming out on April 5th is Ohio Players – the duo’s first full-length album since 2022’s Dropout Boogie. Now, the first song was actually co-written by Beck (Two Turntables) I don’t believe Beck is actually on this song, but simply helped scribble it out. However, if rumor has it, Beck does appear on another track along with rapper Juicy J. We don’t get that one today. The one we do get is “Beautiful People (Stay High)” (clip)

• An album that I did know was arriving this year in 2024 was Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations by The Vaccines. We’ve already gotten several songs from the album last year – like 4. Don’t worry – there’s another six to enjoy. I’ve listened to them and my ears perked up to “Another Nightmare.” (clip) However, the one that Spotify is highlighting and the band came out for another video for is “Discount De Kooning” (clip)

• Judah & the Lion made the announcement of their new album: The Process coming out in its entirety on May 10th. This is the band’s fifth full-length effort and the follow-up to 2022’s Revival. Posted on Instagram (clip) the band stated “One of our most difficult records to write as we aired out our struggles with grieving. You’re not alone, and we hope this record helps you feel that.” Here’s a clip of the released new track, “Is What It Is” (clip)

• Several quick hits of new music: Missed this one last week – Liam Gallagher and Stone Roses guitarist John Squire are doing a little project together and shared a new song – “Just Another Rainbow” // Another one missed – Alkaline Trio with “Versions of You” – full album Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs arrives January 26th // The song “Hey” from Aura Davis comes along with a new video too. That sofa looks like the place to hang out (clip) // 21 Savage – new album is out: American Dream // Lil Nas X surprised us with a new song and video called “J Christ” – that’s right, singing about JC – wasn’t he a Backstreet Boy? // Via Rolling Stone, I saw that Suki Waterhouse was channeling France’s greatest & most popular singers Edith (eh deet) Piaf in the video for her new song “OMG” (clip)

Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.

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I’m sorry – I know this Quote of the Day is a repeat from last year at some point, but I’m using it in my journal

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.” – by Beck

morning babble / Thursday 01-11-24

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

HAPPY FRIDAY EVE!

Go get that Chase Jarvis book – click here!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The rising tide lifts all the boats.” – JFK – John F. Kennedy / Although, I always hear my guy – Chase Jarvis saying this phrase

morning babble / Tuesday 01-09-24

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Extraordinary results are a matter of repeating ordinary actions over a long period of time. Start with ordinary..” – by Mark Manson

morning babble / Sunday 01-07-24

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

How are those New Year’s Resolutions coming? Read this to help it Keep Going!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I paint with my back to the world.” – by Agnes Martin

morning babble / Friday 01-05-24

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Pink Cut of “So What”

Happy New Year?

Pink Cut of “So What”

Morning Babble Intro

Yes – Happy First Weekend of 2024 and I guess one final Happy 2024 and that’s it out of me for new year’s wishes. (Larry David drop)

I opened the Babble today with Pink and her song “So What”. I heard some new music today which triggered that song in my head . . . I’ll get to it shortly.

It took me several hours to click-click-click through the files in my head to figure out what song it was making me think of. Initially, I thought it was The Pretty Reckless (clip) Kept going through song after song of them. By the way, Taylor Momsen is the lead singer of that band but she is also known for playing Cindy Lou Who with Jim Carrey in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. (clip) I just have to say. I loved her Instagram posts around the holidays. She fully embraced having done that role and put out some really fun holiday posts. She’s a rocker and it was nice to see that. I then pivoted (clip) to Kesha. I played a lot of Kesha (clip) – I really thought it was Kesha (clip) It wasn’t Kesha. But then – click, click, click – it happened – PINK! (clip) I’ll get to that in a bit.

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New Music Friday:

I put together a Spotify playlist of the songs that I talked about and thought about today for New Music Friday. Click here for that! SUBSCRIBE!!!!!!

• First up – remember the song “Laid”, remembering getting laid? Alright this is awkward – play the clip (James – “Laid”). From 1993, that’s “Laid” by the band: James. Today, from the band July Talk we get a cover of the song (clip – girl singing) I’m not all that familiar with the band and I liked the girl’s voice, but then (clip – guy singing) I wasn’t ready for that transition. I wasn’t. I liked it though. This is actually part of a 5 song EP that they released in late December, but it popped up – Laid – on my Spotify Release Radar list today, so I wanted to pass it along. Being good is not one of my new year’s resolutions (clip)

• Couple hip-hop songs got my attention. This first one I really connected with (clip) Alright, maybe not that part, but I did eventually connect and thoroughly enjoyed that one – which was “Good Intentions” from 24kGoldn (clip). More hip-hop – on New Year’s Day, The Game and Big Hit teamed up along with producer Hit-Boy for a new album: Paisley Dreams. The song that I heard and enjoyed was “P-Fiction” (clip)

• Green Day – new album “Saviors” drops on January 19th – thats their 14th studio album – that’s also known as – a lot. For the time being, the boys did give us another song to enjoy (clip) That’s called “One Eyed Bastard” and that’s the song that made me think of the PINK song “So What” – it was the very beginning of it. We’ll do the back & forth thing. This is Green Day (clip) this is PINK (clip) again, Green Day (clip) and PINK (clip). Do you think they got that? //

• Several quick hits of new music: Playboi Carti has released a new song with Travis Scott called “Backr00ms,” alongside a music video which features Carti showering a dancer with money. Go Google that one // The Boston Trio – Pile – released a 5 song EP called Hot Air Ballon. Couple months ago – one of the songs was released with a video called “The Birds Attacked My Hot Air Balloon.” I’m going to go a little deeper on these guys. // And lastly, if you’re in Philly, it’s David Bowie week. All my years of being in the area and being in radio, unfortunately, I had never heard of Bowie week in Philly. I learned about it while reading the article from Dan Deluca of the Philly inquirer. I’ll link the story – click here (clip)

Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.

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Not the Quote of the Day: “I will never return to the music industry.” – Britney Spears

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.” – P!nk

morning babble / Thursday 01-04-24

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different.  That’s your source of power.” – Robert Greene

morning babble / Tuesday 01-03-24

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

Happy 2024! Still?

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A willingness to begin again is the key to freedom.” – Sam Harris

morning babble / Sunday 12-31-23

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

Last words of wisdom for 2023, but it’s one my mantras for 2024.

Bring it on!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Did you get better today?” – by Kobe Bryant

morning babble / Friday 12-29-23

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

(Seven Little Girls clip)

Not much going on – It’s Taint week – Taint Christmas and it Taint New Years

(Seven Little Girls clip)

Morning Babble Opener

Like that opening song? From 1959, that’s Paul Evans (no relation) singing “Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat.” He’s very jealous of Fred who’s the only dude in the back with those 7 girls. (clip)

So, almost 2024 – and the final New Music Friday list for 2023 – not too girthy and I know we all like girth.

Initially, the pickings were so slim that I was in panic mode and it made me think about some other things to talk about

Favorite Vinyl Album of 2023 – First Two Pages of Frankenstein by The National (clip)

When I went to pull this album, I stumbled across my first record received when I returned to collecting vinyl again – Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (clip)

I then began remembering my firsts . . for music

My first CD was the self-titled Genesis album from 1983: Genesis by I couldn’t find the CD, only the cassette (clip)

I then thought back or backwards forward to my first iPod and the first downloaded album which was Plans by Death Cab for Cutie

Now, I mentioned that Mumford & Sons was my “return” to collecting vinyl. As a young boy, I had my favorite 45s that I collected and I found some of my favorites:

The Oak ridge Boys and “Elvira” (clip) Nobody sings like that anymore

I’ve got Buckner & Garcia with “Pac-Man Fever” (clip)

Olivia Newton-John singing about “working out” with Physical (clip)

and finally, I have the Theme Song from TV show “The Greatest American Hero” – the song is called “Believe It or Not”(clip)

Just thought I would share what I began digging up and finding.

New Music Friday:

I put together a Spotify playlist of the songs that I talked about and thought about today for New Music Friday. Click here for that!

A very special New Music Friday because it lacks girth

• We do have Myles Smith who is a singer apparently out of the UK . . . he’s got a strong social media presence – he has nearly half-a-million followers on Instagram. Is that close to me? (clip) Alright – recently – all the way back in November, Myles had the hit song “Solo” (clip) Today, we get the song “Behind” (clip)

• Last month, Belgian DJ Lost Frequencies released his third studio album: All Stand Together – his first album since 2019. Today – he’s giving you exactly what you need as we head into 2024 is an uplifting song filled with optimism. Need that energy boost. Bastille joined forces with Lost Frequencies for the new single “Head Down” (clip)

• This one is completely new to me – I believe the band is called bby and they came out with a 2-pack of songs today under the album title of: I just Want Next Year to Be Better. – that’s what caught my attention and made me smile. The two songs are “shhh” and “spinnin 88”. I jumped all over the place learning this from their Instagram, YouTube page, also, it appears that you can call them? I could be so wrong about some of this. I’m 50. Here’s shhh (clip)

• Several quick hits of new music that I’m looking forward to hearing in 2024! // January 12th – The Vaccines with Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations // January 19th – Green Day with Saviors // February 2nd – Brittany Howard with What Now // There’s also albums coming out from Jennifer Lopez, Usher, Lenny Kravitz, Bleachers, Cardi B, and so much more.

Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.

Taint Week – It’s also the week when outside decorations fall over and people don’t care anymore.  I don’t care if Santa is laying down – he’s tired anyway.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
— by Phil Collins / Actually lyrics taken from one of the songs from Disney’s Tarzan movie – “Son of Man”

morning babble / Sunday 12-24-23

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

Merry Christmas Eve!! And yes – leave out those cookies tonight!!!!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection.” – by Winston Churchill