Welcome to WEEK 188 of 4T! (Video Episode #14) Various Artists – Chart Action 83 (1983) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL72AEE26FC6CE0621 I love greatest hits collections. There are four kinds I particularly love: 1. A retrospective that spans the life of a band to date, and shows their evolution. 2. The hits of an artist I’m not interested in enough to listen to their whole catalog. 3. A genre collection, especially of one I haven’t dived into for realz. 4. A time capsule of a certain era or year. Chart Action 83 is a perfect example of #4. Way back before playlists, K-Tel (and other companies, but c’mon seriously, K-Tel is the MASTER) would release annual collections of hits from th
Welcome to WEEK 187 of 4T! (Video Episode #13) Nick DeMatteo – Modern Discography (1995-present) Pause for the Cause https://www.nickdematteo.com/music I’m taking a 4T pause this week to discuss the cause of all my weekly postings, them being: [if !supportLists]· [endif]Song for Saturday – I started way back in February 2016, with “SNo Globe”, which at the time was off my latest release, The Sunshine Seminar. I decided to do a “reverse chronology” of my music from that point on. Nearly 200 weeks (and songs) later, I’ve made it all the way back to 1986 – and there’s still more to go. [if !supportLists]· [endif]The Thursday Throwback Track (4T) – In April 2016, I took a look
Welcome to WEEK 186 of 4T! (Video Episode #12) LL Cool J – “I Want You” / “Dangerous” (1985) It’s the songs you DON’T hear all the time… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_FRItnhPNA “I Need A Beat” – “I Can’t Live Without My Radio” – “Rock the Bells” – “Going Back to Cali” – “Big Ole Butt” – “Jingling Baby” – “Around the Way Girl” – “Mama Said Knock You Out”. Anyone who knows classic hip-hop – second & third wave in this case – knows LL Cool J. And if you know LL, you probably know at least one of the songs I just listed. (Lemme tell ya, his greatest hits CD is ON POINT.) Well, I happen to have a 12” of an album cut from his first LP, Radio, which is this here selection. Only true LL fa
