THE VARIETY STATION – MUSIC BLOG
Listening to all of our music, one Album at a time.
🎶 ALBUM VAULT #256 🎶 VINYL ENERGY FLASHBACK DAY continues… ⚡ Daft Punk – Discovery — 8/10💿 2-Disc Black Vinyl If Amber was straight-up Energy 92.7&5, Daft Punk is where the whole thing gets a little weirder. And better. Daft Punk was Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, two French…
🎶 ALBUM VAULT #255 🎶 I AM ENERGY. ⚡ Today is officially a Vinyl Energy flashback day. If you remember Energy 92.7&5, you remember just how different that station sounded. Chicago had an actual ALL-DANCE station blasting through 92.7 and 92.5. Dance records. Club mixes. Stuff nobody else on the…
🎶 ALBUM VAULT #254 🎶 GREATEST HITS HUMPER keeps rolling… Cheap Trick – Authorized Greatest Hits — 8/10💿 Plex Server Cheap Trick has HITS. A LOT of them. And being an Illinois band from Rockford makes them even more fun for me. The classic lineup of Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen,…
🎶 ALBUM VAULT #253 🎶 Back in the office today. Back on the Plex Server. And we’re rolling with… GREATEST HITS HUMPER. First up… Exposé – Master Hits — 8/10💿 Plex Server Man, Exposé had a RUN. The lineup most of us remember was Jeanette Jurado, Gioia Bruno and Ann…
🎶 ALBUM VAULT #252 🎶 And finally… we reach the last concert I’ve seen. At least so far. Bryan Adams – Roll With The Punches — 6/10💿 Plex Server Part two of that night at the Allstate Arena. Pat Benatar finished her set, and then Bryan Adams came out. And…
🎶 ALBUM VAULT #251 🎶 The Concert Journey continues… Pat Benatar – Tropico — 7/10💿 Original Black Vinyl I was lucky enough to see Pat Benatar last November at the Allstate Arena, opening for Bryan Adams. WHAT A HELL OF A SHOW. Seriously, after all these years, Pat can still…
🎶 ALBUM VAULT #250 🎶 Wow. 250 albums. And lately I’m finding it harder and harder to find time to actually SPIN them. But here we are. The Concert Journey continues… Daryl Hall & John Oates – Our Kind of Soul — 8/10💿 Black Vinyl The main attraction of that…
🎶 ALBUM VAULT #249 🎶 The Concert Journey continues… Tears for Fears – Songs from the Big Chair — 10/10💿 Plex Server My wife is awesome. She took me to see Tears for Fears with Hall & Oates at the Allstate Arena, and looking back, I’m a little sad because…
🎶 ALBUM VAULT #248 🎶 After a week of coding an application for my internet radio station, thevarietystation.com, I am BACK AT IT. And this is the second half of that Goo Goo Dolls night in Tinley Park… Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet — 10/10 It was HOT. The…
🎶 ALBUM VAULT #247 🎶 The Concert Journey continues… Goo Goo Dolls – Goo Goo Dolls — 7/10💿 Plex Media Server This is NOT your “Iris” Goo Goo Dolls. It’s not your “Slide” Goo Goo Dolls. Hell, it’s not even your “Name” or “We Are the Normal” Goo Goo Dolls….