The Music Blog of the Infonistacrat!

Happy Sunday! I was sitting arounding, having a few beverages of the alcoholic variety, listening to tunes, and suddenly remembered my grade school elementary school teacher, Mrs. Patterson. I went to grade school in Akron, OH, to a school called Lincoln Elementary. The great thing about Mrs. Patterson was that she really didn’t teach us a lot about music. At least not in the sense of music class. What she did do was to sit and play records all class. It was the best music education I ever had.

I grew up in a house that pretty much listened to old school country music…Porter Wagner, Loretta Lynn, Charlie Pride, Charlie Rich…the list could go on and on. To this day, I can’t listen to country music. However, Mrs. Patterson’s class taught me that there was a whole other world out there. She spun some great stuff…mainly James Brown records, but I also remember stuff like Jim Croce. She also played some old R&B stuff, and old school blues, like Howlin’ Wolf. I don’t remember a whole lot about it…it was 1972 after all, and I was like 9 years old. But I remember listening to all those James Brown records. It was a great musical education for a kid, and every now and then, I still pull out my James Brown’s greatest hits album…36 years later, I still love that old stuff.

1. The Human League - I’m Only Human
2. Morrisey - Disappointed
3. Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This
4. Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
5. Madness - Nightboat To Cairo
6. Lou Reed - Vicious
7. Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday
8. Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind
9. U2 - Angel of Harlem
10. David Bowie - Five Years