Cosmic American Blog

Say it's 1982, you just bought Toto IV and you've put it on the turntable for the first time. There's "Rosanna," th...

I could watch this all day and never tire of it.

If there's one thing in the world I love, it's Arrowhead's Puffed Wheat Cereal. But another thing I really love is hearing my fa...

For a single that Rolling Stone chose as the #1 song of the decade, "Crazy" doesn't seem particularly significant or profoun...

Almost all music videos, since the dawn of time, have made at least some attempt to show the the actual musical artist featured in the video...

I consider Marc Bolan, lead singer/songwriter/guitarist/mystical hippie sorcerer of the glam rock band T.Rex, the greatest "bad" l...

Air clearly put a lot of effort into 10,000 Hz Legend , their follow-up to Moon Safari , which is bad if you're Air, because you probabl...

The best use of bongos in a pop song since The Beatles' "You're Going To Lose That Girl" ? Joe Cocker's "Feelin...

"Playgirl" seems to be one of those songs that everybody knows about, and yet, as far as I can tell, was never actually a hit any...

Now here is a perfect example of a band not trying very hard to make music of any particular significance and yet creating something I qui...

I'd like to think that Messieurs Dunckel and Godin's campy fascination with 1970s retro cheese is purely tongue-in-cheek, but my h...

A couple of weeks ago I gave the Pet Shop Boys' Discography a spin, and I was reminded just what an excellent collection that is. I l...

What a wonderful tool today's bored rock historian has at his disposal! When unlimited access to mp3s simply isn't cutting it, there...