Providing Musical Distractions for our Sick, Sad World
Tom Rapp founder of ’60’s Psychedelic Folk band Peals Before Swine passed away recently at age 70. We at Infinite Jones always found his voice a bit of an un-acquired taste but, his ambitious, baroque take on Folk Pop was very influential. He quit music in the early seventies to become an esteemed Civil Rights …
There are too many “Valentines” song for just one Song Of the Valentines Day so, of course, we made a Playlist. Enjoy.
Tenacious D – double Team (NSFW) A lovely, sweet sentiment in the true spirit of Valentine’s Day.
Song of the Day From Paul Westerberg’s 1993 Solo debut, 14 Songs, this beautiful little charmer is really just a demo. Paul reportedly could not remember the tuning he used when it came time to re-record the song for the album so, he just let it go as is. The lo-fi looseness adds to the …
video of the day: King Floyd – Groove Me American Soul Singer, King Floyd was born today in 1945. (d.2006). This is one of the funkiest bass lines ever! Groove on, Mr. Floyd!
Song of the Day: Stark Reality – All You Need to Make Music From the 1970 album NOW. Like we said this is a weird one. The album started as a project initiated by Hoagy Carmichael’s son to introduce children to his father’s music (see more here). All You Need to Make Music is …
Party Down by Little Beaver Party Down by Little Beaver is not a better album than Abbey Road. It is not greater than Born to Run or Who’s Next or Exile on Main Street. It is not as important as Blonde on Blonde or as beautiful and sophisticated as Innervisions. It’s not… well, you get …
Video of the Day 10cc – The Worst Band in the World We at Infinite Jones do not really believe that 10cc is the worst band in the world – even if they claim to be. In fact we think they are quite clever. Perhaps they can be a bit too clever at times. This …
Song of the Day “For the People, By the People, Yeah!” In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday which is still sorta celebrated in Infinite Jones’ home state of Illinois, here is a cheeky little rocker from semi-legendary Ohio band The Great Pains. This is originally from their 1984 album Born in a Barn but, …
Video of the Day! Spike Jones (no relation) was a Musical Mad Man of the Highest order as you can see by this vintage clip! It includes a pithy little History of Music. Enjoy. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
