I was a genie in a bottle
Before you rubbed on my lamp
Audition for the picker
Got the role of tramp
Spending my days marking wishes on lists
Survey says ignorance is bliss.

Good morning vinyl enthusiasts and welcome back to the Friday edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember record producer and musician David Cole, who with his musical partner,  Robert Clivillés, are best known as the C+C in the C+C Music Factory. Cole passed away on this day in 1995, age 32, from spinal meningitis.  To honor his legacy we spotlight this 4 record compilation box set,  Greatest Remixes Vol. 1.  The LPs were released in 1992 on the Columbia label and produced…

Creative destruction
We are unmade
Our building blocks
Crumbled and tossed
Like rocks into the sea
Crushed by the weight
Of our own habitual inconsistency

Signal unto me
Your virtue
This guise has nearly destroyed
Your pitch perfect perptitude
Broken wind up toys
Find joy in the hands of the burnt ones

The machines are knee deep

In their toil

While we sleep

And dream of valiant heroes and despicable villains

They rearrange the ones and zeroes

Pushing our buttons

Rewriting our code

Replacing old thought with new programming

Shambling logic eaten by rotten emotion chips

We set out thinking upgrades

Would make us better

Turns out we kept our word and gargled glass

With broken letters

How can our garbled…

You only like me when I'm ambiguous

Don't be ridiculous we love to look at you in the pitch black room

With the volume maxed out and the conversation on mute

We'd call you low hanging fruit, but truth is,

We picked you up from off the ground

And hung you from our meathook ,charged admission, let everyone come in and have a look

The bitter scraps of tattered paper tasteless wafers now I've eaten

And know the things you need me to say, and you're in…

Good morning vinyl junkies and welcome to the Thursday edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember founding member, guitarist and vocalist, Terry Kath, of the Chicago based band, Chicago, on this, the 42nd anniversary of his death. He died in 1978 following an accidental gunshot wound to the head. He was 31 years old. With him in mind we spotlight their sixth studio album Chicago VII. The double LP was released March 11, 1974, on the Columbia label and produced by James William…

Good morning Wednesday warriors and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we gleefully celebrate the 71st Birthday of former Journey front man, Steve Perry. Happy Birthday Steve !  With him in mind, we present their fifth studio album, Evolution. Evolution was released  March 23, 1979 on the Columbia label and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. It peaked at #20 on the Billboard 200, #35 in Canada, and #36 in Sweden. The disc gave birth to three singles ; "Just the Same Way" (#58 Hot…

Good Tuesday morning to you, morning people and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember guitarist, vocalist and the man who opened Woodstock, Richie Havens, on what would have been his 79th Birthday. The Brooklyn native passed away in 2013, age 72, from a heart attack. To honor his legacy, we spotlight what some perceive as his best album, his debut album, Mixed Bag. Mixed Bag was released in 1967 (although I've found sources that also say '66 and '68) on the Verve…

My itinerant temerity
Disguises the severity
Of the absence of clarity

I can't sleep

My machine is broken

An extreme token

Of the scene inside the dream

Where I'm unplugged and no one hears me scream

I'm like time travel

I'm starting to unravel

It's seems I'm coming apart at the seams

I keep trying to go back and right the wrong things

But the signal's been lost in the art of transaction

When there's a product so popular

The public must have it

Fire and water and logic

Do not…

Good Monday morning gang and welcome to the Martin Luther King Jr. edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Hopefully we all take the day to reflect on the things that we have in common rather than the differences between us . There are very few other facets in life, more than music, that has helped bridge divides and bring people together and one such performer would have to be the legendary Ray Charles.   His 1962  ABC-Paramount album, Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, is our subject…

In repose

Like I've posed again

Fathom phantoms

Loss of friends

Like severed limbs

A drastic open basket

Raw and bundled nerves

A truly fitting send off

Much more than what's deserved

And served on a silver sliver platter

It slithers towards unto me

As if to ask

What is the matter

The rain beats down

Pushing it's relentless patter

Shadows against the stone

This lighthouse now our home

We dine…

I wish I had all these assurances
That people demand of their circumstances
But I'm still searching for something certain
The reveal behind the curtain
A damn raft or even an oar
To cling to in this frantic current
Would be more than I'm used to
But currently the sea doesn't consist
Of consistency.

Writing Poetry
At red lights
The cameras catch
My perfect Prose
And poor posture pose
I suppose in this experience
It's a plus to have an audience.

Good morning, morning people and welcome back to the Sunday edition of Stuck In The Vinyl America. Today we wish British-American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, Dewey Bunell of folk rock group America, a very Happy 68th Birthday. Happy Birthday Dewey ! To mark the occasion, we throw a spotlight on their seventh studio album, Harbor. Harbor was released February 15, 1977 on the Warner Brothers label and produced by Sir George Martin. It peaked at #13 in Norway, #19 in Australia, and #21…

Good morning gang and welcome to the return of Saturday's Singles. First up our way back machine takes us to this day in 1975, when Chicago Mayor, Richard Daily declared it was Bobby Vinton Day. With that in mind, we spotlight the single  "Sealed With A Kiss" by the teen idol . The song was released in 1972 on the Epic label from the album of the same title. It reached #19 on the Hot 100, #14 on the Cashbox charts, and #2 on  the Adult Contemporary charts. It's b-side is the non-album…

Good morning Friday people and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. It was on this day in 1978, that new wave post punk band Simple Minds made their debut live performance  at The Satellite Club, Glasgow. To commemorate the date, we spotlight their sixth studio album, Sparkle In The Rain. The LP was released  February 6, 1984 on the A&M label and produced by Steve Lillywhite. It peaked at #1 in both the UK and New Zealand , #2 in the Netherlands, and #64 in the US. Three…

How much time can a man waste
The rain pours down camouflaging the tears on his face
He cries to the Heavens as he turns his head
Towards infinite space
This footrace of finality
For which he wins first place

Good morning vinyl enthusiasts and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember guitarist and co founder, Bob Bugle, of the American instrumental rock band , The Ventures, on what would have been his 86th Birthday. He passed away in 2009, age 75, from  non-Hodgkin lymphoma. With him in mind, we spotlight their self titled sophomore album, The Ventures. It was released  June 26, 1961 on the Dolton label and peaked at #105 on Billboard's album chart and #24 on the Cashbox…

My three story house

Has a lot of spirits

All of them aren't good

They walk on wind

And flee the coming of the sun

Some look like old friends

But sour in lone darkness

It's far fetched to act perplexed

And expect excellence from pestilence

The decadent dance

Two left feet and left to my own defense

I'll trade reason for a season of your coveted glances

Subtle trances train my thoughts

To offer no interpretation

From inside…