Frank Kogan

2nd viral riff discovered lurking behind 1st, so I rework my APT Thai substack post, adding edits, updates + 2,000 words of brand-new footnotes. I use the phrase "stitched-together Frankenstein creature" and somehow don't mean the piece itself. Think I've improved it koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai

#CountryRockSunday DJ Luis do Grau, MC MTHS, Oliveira MC 011, Geovana Santos de Oliveira "Zn Bota Tudo na Oliveira" (2025) Harmonica with its nervous system removed & re-inserted sideways. Country rock only in my imagination, as if rock still meant electric adventure www.youtube.com/watch?v=seRD...

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#CountryRockSunday The Kingston Trio "Little Maggie" (1958) Of all the folk groups that grabbed me as a 9-year-old, the Kingston Trio kicked hardest, the banjo especially driving with a headlong energy. Give the banjo player a dram, and another dram for Maggie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9A8...

In "Grand Exit" Edmund Lowe goes philosophical on us. A debonair fire investigator, he explains to Ann Southern that a fire is like a love affair. It seems you don't know the reason for it until the flame has died down. In other words, the reason is to be found in the ashes Tom Pryor NYTimes 11/4/35

Some fave covers (dif language from orig): SHINee "Juliette" ["Deal With It"] Leo Fuld "Misiriou" (1954 Concert) Epaksa "Young Man" ["YMCA"] Judy Collins "Pirate Jenny" Bobby Darin "Beyond The Sea" Gino Latilla "I cavalieri del cielo" Jewelry "One More Time" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwkP...

fiction-poetry-lit movies stuff too tall for previous and next shelves music science-math-philosophy-social science history (incl 1066 And All That) usage-reference art (standing/leaning against shelves & milk crates)

#CountryRockSunday Waylon Jennings "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" (1975) Closest that country's come to sounding (and pounding) like the first Velvet Underground album; so no, I don't think Hank done it this way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PLP...

"As a crippled aviator who plays confidant to the girl, Ralph Bellamy interpolates a likable personality" --Andre Sennwald, "'Hands Across the Table,' a Sprightly Romantic Comedy at the Paramount." New York Times, November 2, 1935

Kani [Untitled] (2026) Sounds good – don't know if it's lip synch or if this is the artist himself; seems to be the latter; if the former, Shazam can't identify it. TikTok account is Kani, hashtag says kani_omaar; some of his others say abdikaniomaar. Probably Somalian www.tiktok.com/@kani_omaar/...

"THUNDER OVER ASTORIA. Hecht and MacArthur Turn to Political Satire in 'Soak The Rich'" --Frank S. Nugent, New York Times, October 27, 1935

#CountryRockSunday Wanda Jackson "Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues" (1966) Yodels refracting in the moonlight, Wanda singing like a new breath of air. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPt...

"Under the able management of William K. Howard, the film preserves its sense of humor without disturbing its omnipresent air of mystery." --Andre Sennwald, New York Times, Oct 26, 1935. "William Powell as the Star of 'Rendezvous,' a Spy Melodrama Now at the Capitol Theatre"

Realizing that my use of "AC" is idiosyncratic: Wikip tells story of easy listening format evolving into adult contemporary, whereas my version has AC as something different from easy listening that ends up replacing it, is something of a spillover from rock, folk, & soul as their audiences grow.

Who is Teddy? I have a To Do list on my computer that I haven't updated since June [the fate of To Do lists], and on it *twice* is the instruction "Read Teddy." But I have no memory of who this "Teddy" is. Might he be one of you?

Trouble w/ Malcriada's own YouTube upload of "Six Seven" is that on the end it adds a minute and a half of credits w/ boring music underneath. Real song is just 2:44 [and should be 1:58--ed.]. Anyway, I use this truncated pirate upload for mixes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tzr...

Heard 4 on Dave's list: like Ultra and Pixie Dust, disappointed by Baddies <3 Moliy (tho I <3 "Backie," which makes me a baddy for Backie), am half thru Budots Republic and like it. As my own discovery, of the 3 DH PP Thailand Remix albs/EPs I've heard, I <3 this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiJb...

I previously thought "and no message could have been any clearer" was "and no mustache could have been any clever" which obviously makes no sense.

Meanwhile over there we're still trying to sort out 1996, this time with a guest post from @koganbot.bsky.social covering Korean disco, Korean [unclassifiable], New Zealand ersatz Pavement, and Courtney Love being first on the Fleetwood Mac re-evaluation: bradluen.substack.com/p/1996-e-pak...

2007, age 17 www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4WQ...

The post that mentions *me*.

This absolutely nails the generally stupid Conventional Wisdom re Em & Taylor. @otherdavemoore.com and I got the crap bullied out of us on I Love Music for writing about (obv sexy) Taylor, Miley, Ashlee, Marit et al., meanwhile imbeciles at Jezebel etc. were calling Taylor anti-sex.

This and responses and subthreads is one of the great threads ever, and it mentions me!

#BPHM8689 is IMMINENT (Saturday for noms) Here are the GUIDELINES including the BANLIST! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#CountryRockSunday The Pogues "Dirty Old Town" (1985) Sex and soot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G6s...

Posted my '96 ballot on Brad's comment thread. Recommend you all participate in Brad's '96 poll. bradluen.substack.com/p/1996-poll-...

"For a fitting commentary on Hollywood's preoccupation with love, you have only to go back to Shakespeare and consider how his beautiful Titania worshiped an ass as passionately as a Garbo or Dietrich ever loved a Gable or a Montgomery." --Andre Sennwald, "Morning After A Dream," NYTimes 13 Oct 1935

#CountryRockSunday Ashley Monroe "Siren" (2021) Ashley Monroe has drifted as far out-of-category as the Holy Modal Rounders and Big Star while not making nearly as big a deal out of it. The sound here has a drift, sad happy refusing to land. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0be...

Brad's 1996 poll, deadline Sep 30. Am endeavoring to ensure every song on my singles list is an actual single: released as such or has a video or is played as if it were a hit or is E-PAK-SA's "Young Man" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyk7...) and is in an EP medley. bradluen.substack.com/p/1996-poll-...