"Don't You Fret."

Hey! I feel like I made this video... But it's from jenzeppelin, who says: "Don't You Fret" is "a beautiful song, oft...

Ray Davies...

... back, with friends. Listen to the 11-minute audio at the link. Lots of music on it. The one thing I definitely dislike is Ray singing w...

It is time for you to stop all of your sobbing.

I hear Meade playing the Garnet Mimms version of "Cry Baby," and after a conversation that I will discuss below, I ask him why he...

"If your last joint was experienced while coughing along to a Bob Dylan album in the '70s, Ramsay's offerings will seem incredibly far out. I mean, incredibly."

I haven't been in the presence of marijuana since The Kinks did the Felt Forum , so I keep up with the horticultural advances by reading...

"The tax man's taken all my dough and left me in my stately home... and I can't sail my yacht — he's taken everything I've got..."

That's the song playing in my head after reading about University of Chicago lawprof Todd Henderson, who's desolated that people do...

"Megan McArdle Really Hates Sex at Dawn"...

... is a funny title for an article , written by the author of "Sex at Dawn," which book title he declines to put in italics or q...

What happens when you blog about cereal?

Yesterday, I made fun of "Good Friends" cereal . Today, I get this email: Hi Ann, First off, like the new picture of you, it looks...

"American Idol" -- tonight's show: The British Invasion.

Okay, this is the perfect show for me. The songs are the British Invasion songs, with Peter Noone tutoring the boys and LuLu for the girls. ...

"Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus"...

It never gets old, does it? It's funny, and it will always be funny. "Bong Hits 4 Jesus." People will be laughing about that l...

Omakase.

I've put Amazon "Omakase" ads up in the sidebar: Omakase is a Japanese word meaning 'leave it up to us'. It is common...

"The 50 greatest conservative rock songs."

John J. Miller at the National Review has a list . I was surprised to see "Gloria" at number six, and I was starting to think over...

When you can't attack the message, attack the messenger.

Thanks, Steven. UPDATE: "Looks like they’re backing away like Murtha from the war," says Jeff Jarvis (who, like Steven Taylor, li...

"You Really Got Me."

The Telegraph reports : The Kinks' You Really Got Me is officially the best song of its period. Radio 2 listeners voted it above Dusty S...

Laptops and law school exams.

My law school does not yet allow students to take exams on computers. I chaired a committee many years ago that addressed the question wheth...

Sixties songs and The Sopranos finale.

Since songs of the sixties became a theme of this blog today, let me say the one thing I wanted to say about The Sopranos season finale. Whe...

"Paisley Park Is in Your Heart." I usually don't write about music that isn't at least 25 years old. I will never get tir...