Straight Talk

I’ve been wasting time watching audio-related YouTube videos, with turntables being a favorite topic. Back in the 80’s, electronics manufacturers did what they could to modernize turntables, while at the same time promoting their CD players. Along with direct-drive turntables and P-Mount cartridges, there were linear-tracking tonearms.

The music that’s played to demonstrate the turntable is by Jeremy Heiden. Something about the first track reminded me of an early 80’s Steve Miller song, with maybe an added splash of the Police from the same era.

Square Songs

The extent of my awareness of SpongeBob SquarePants is pretty much limited to knowing what it is. That changed just a bit when I heard this song on one of my favorite SiriusXM shows, Drew Carey’s Friday Night Freak-out.

It sounds like a song-writing collaboration between Brian Wilson and Margo Guryan. That turns out to not be surprising, because the song was written by former Brian Wilson producer Andy Paley.

How about another square song for kids? As featured in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Hmmm… that album cover looks square.