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Tag: Let’s take a trip around the world
This Week's Theme: Around the World in 29 Songs As I wrote one year ago in Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 25 - almost every Faux Show includes one of my favorite mini-themes, Let's Take a Trip Around the World. My fondest memories of my time as a deejay 30+ years ago include discovering … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 29 (August 14, 2022): Around the World in 29 Songs
This Week's Theme: Country Crossover Hits It has been a while since I have put together a fully-formed Faux Show, but this week sees the return to the research and thematic elements that led me to start doing this blog in the first place. The shows will start to be weekly again, and will cover … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 21 (June 19, 2022): Country Crossover Hits
This Week's Theme: Better Late Than Never As I mentioned last week, the next few Faux Shows are going to have a lot less content due to constraints on my time. The themes of the shows are going to be less complex for a while and require a lot less research. The shows are also … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 18 (May 8, 2022): Better Late Than Never
This Week's Theme: 10-Year Anniversary (Music from 2012) I paid very little attention to new music in 2012. There are many reasons for this, and I don't feel guilty about it, but I'm always working to fill in the gaps in my musical knowledge. For this reason, it was interesting to go back ten years … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 16 (April 17, 2022): 10-Year Anniversary
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: 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
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
This Week's Theme: In Memoriam 2021 (Part Two) Hundreds of musicians, songwriters, producers, and recording artists died in 2021. Some of them were legends while others were best known from the work of others. There is no way to include all of these artists in one Faux Show, but I can at least go with … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 2 (January 9, 2022): In Memoriam 2021 (Part Two)
This Week's Theme: Songs that Peaked at # 40 on the Billboard Charts (Artists D - F) See Radio Faux Show # 22 for Part One of this series, featuring artists from A to C. For this week's show we get to use the greatest reference book ever published, Joel Whitburn's Billboard Book of Top … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 38 (November 21, 2021): Peaked at # 40 (Artists D-F)
This Week's Theme: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Snubs I have a love/hate relationship with The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Rock Hall). I've visited a few times, about once per decade, and I've enjoyed the time spent there. The exhibits tend to be hit or miss, but I certainly don't think it … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 35 (October 31, 2021): Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Snubs
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