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This Week's Theme: Contractually Obligated Disco Recordings This is probably the most ridiculous theme I have selected so far, and it is all because of one song on one album that most people have never heard of or listened to. I was doing some record store shopping and selected a Carole King album for Ms. … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 9 (February 27, 2022): Contractually Obligated Disco Recordings
This Week's Theme: Embrace The Unknown The last two Faux Shows have been filled with music I know very well so I decided to go exploring this week. Discovering new music is the main reason I began the Radio Faux Show. I find the discovery of new music exciting. It isn’t always a successful journey, … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 8 (February 20, 2022): Embrace The Unknown
This Week's Theme: Desert Island Discs All music geeks have participated in discussions of the question first presented on the BBC radio show Desert Island Discs in 1942. If you were stranded on a desert island, what albums would you select to have with you? The show’s specific requirement is eight albums, one book, and … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 7 (February 13, 2022): Desert Island Discs
This Week's Theme: Bestsellers On the surface, this week’s theme seems simple. It should be an objective exercise to determine the bestselling albums of all time. I assumed that a little bit of research would yield a list of the bestselling albums and then I would simply select songs from those albums and curate a … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 6 (February 6, 2022): Bestsellers
This Week's Theme: Electronic Music This is the last of the old Faux Show's left to migrate over to this blog. If this was a new show, I would provide a lot more information than I am going to present here, especially since this is such a rich topic and this show is the first … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 15 (June 13, 2021): Electronic Music
Migrating all of the old Faux Shows over to this site turned out to be more than I have time to do. So instead of creating a separate show for each week, I'm going to create combo-shows and add to them as time permits. These will be minimal Faux Show posts that cover the themes … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Numbers 9-13 (May 2-30, 2021): Tarheel Born, I Come From a Land Down Under, Spending My Allowance, Creation Duplication Inspiration Theft, and Bob Dylan
I'm no expert at any of the popular forms of social media, but I'm willing to give 'em a try! The Radio Faux Show now has accounts on several popular social media platforms. Twitter: I'm not sure how much I will tweet, but I will try to update my feed with interesting things I find … Continue reading Social Media Blitz: A Faux Show Addendum
This Week's Theme: Themeless This week's Faux Show doesn't have an overall theme. Instead I have pulled together some songs I have been saving, some birthdays, some In Memoriams, some new stuff, and a variety of songs that all go together as mini-themes. Welcome to Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 5. First things first … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 5 (January 30, 2022): Themeless
This Week's Theme: Silver Anniversary, Music from 1997 This week's show focuses on music from twenty-five years ago. Every song is from 1997, including my Top Twenty albums, some best of genre selections, and some birthday wishes to artists who released music that year. Welcome to Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 4. First things … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 4 (January 23, 2022): Music from 1997
This Week's Theme: Extraterrestrial I recently finished reading the fantastic bestseller extraterrestrial: The First Sign Of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth by astrophysicist Avi Loeb. Among many other accomplishments, Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Junior Professor of Science at Harvard, and his sixth book presents his theory that the object known as Oumuamua, which passed … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 3 (January 16, 2022): Extraterrestrial
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