Reid About It

Twenty-five years ago today, Counting Crows released the album “August and Everything After.” That means it was twenty-five years ago that I first listened to this album. And it’s been twenty-five years of my life that there are moments I realize I need to hear it again. Front to back. Every song. And it helps, […]

Why is Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire” so creepy?

On occasion, listening to the radio can really enlighten you. When you’re a kid, you hear songs without really listening to them. It’s only when you’re older that you start to actually hear a song, and you realize things. For example, I now know that “Beat It” and “Thriller” are actually incredibly lame songs that […]

I love rock-and-roll Christmas music. Not sure why, maybe it’s the juxtaposition of peace-and-love songs coming from millionaire smack addicts. Hard to say. Anyway, one of my all-time favorites is the charity song from Band-Aid, “Do They Know It’s Christmas.” I love this song for many reasons. I still remember all the musicians on the […]

To begin with, has anyone actually experienced this entire “12 Days Of Christmas” song in one setting? It’s the Bataan Death March of the yuletide season. It’s the “99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall” of Christmas songs, a nightmare of obscure gifts made even worse through recursion. No one can make it through the […]

Joe Elliott has man-boobs. I know, as far as opening lines go, it’s not exactly “Frank Sinatra has a cold.” It’s important to the story later, though, and not even in a negative way. An old friend of mine, Matt Pool, called me last week and wanted me to come with him to see Def […]

One day, ninety-five bands. one forty-two year-old man.

You ever get that moment when you see something from your youth, and because you are now an adult, you actually take the time to think about it and it makes no sense? Happens to me all the time, which kind of sucks. I’ll be listening to the radio and hear something like “Beat It” […]

I had several other things I wanted to write about today, but I woke up consumed with something. Yesterday a song came on my car radio that I hadn’t heard since it came out long ago. Unfortunately, it was by Jewel. For those of you who may not remember, Jewel was a pretty little former […]