অনিয়ন্ত্রিত মিক্স: টেলস অফ মিউজিক, শিল্পী, পোজার এবং মিসফিট
In Pop Hits Trapped in My Soul, Bob Deakin’s stories follow the strange, comic, and sometimes unsettling ways hit music embeds itself into memory and identity, burrowing into the mind like a New England deer tick under the skin.
Blending personal stories, cultural observation, and obsessive replay, Deakin writes about the joy of pop music and the quiet madness of never
quite escaping it.
From Top 40 hits to obscure album cuts, these essays explore the musicians and sessions and lyrics in detail.
Unapologetically unruly, this second volume of the Unruly Mix series is for anyone who’s ever had a song stuck in their head (or trapped in their soul) and feared it may stay there for life.
Not to worry. The only way to get rid of an earworm is to attack it and dissect it. I've delved into details of the musicians, instruments, lyrics and studios. If that doesn't work I've provided a diversion with stories about the effects of listening to music.
Unruly Mix
Tales of Music, Artists, Posers and Misfits
The characters in An Unruly Mix don’t fit in, anywhere. The only entity that brings them together is the setting of Burnham, CT. Some are natives, others from nearby, and a few pass through. Burnham is a peaceful town on a little mountain with residents who keep a firm but loosening grip on the values nurtured by generations past.
Patience is a virtue, and the instinctive urge to resist change is bypassed by the strength of their faith and confidence in the knowledge of history: Do the right thing and be confident everything will be all right.
In this first of three volumes of short story humor by author Bob Deakin, we meet the characters and see the redeeming qualities in some, the destructive tendencies in others, and the unseen and unexpected circumstances that form the foundations of future conflicts.
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Late on Side B you made the awkward decision to include Ronnie Milsap’s “It Was Almost Like a Song” followed by Barbara Mandrell’s “(If Loving You is Wrong) I Don't Want to be Right.” Emotional confusion anyone?
-from Unruly Mix
Also in The Year Without a Santa Claus, the Snow Miser was voiced by Dick Shawn, who played LSD (Lorenzo St. DuBois) in the original The Producers film in 1968. As the Snow Miser, he sang one half of the Snow Miser/Heat Miser ragtime-style showstoppers. Yep. Same guy.
-from Straw Hat Weirdo
Otherwise happy, comfortable people scramble to look away, walk in other directions, draw attention to something else or strike up conversations about anything but Mr. Skinny Mini and his wares. The prettiest girls cringe, the toughest guys recoil and rambunctious children sit quietly by their parents. Even smoke from a distant fire drifts in another direction.
-from Skinny Mini Clears the Beach