The Vinyl Experience – 08.28.15

Jefferson Airplane: Coming Back To Me
Frank Black: The End Of Summer
Flaming Lips: It’s Summertime
Chad & Jeremy: A Summer Song
Bob Dylan: Floater (To Much To Ask)
David Bromberg: New Leigh Highway Blues
The Decembersits: Summersong
Beach Boys: All Summer Long
Style Council: Long Hot Summer
Sly & The Family Stone: Hot Fun In the Summertime
The Cure: The Last Day Of Summer
The Hollies: Bus Stop
The Kinks: Summer’s Gone
The Doors: Summer’s Almost Gone
Frank Sinatra: The Summer Wind

The Vinyl Experience – 08.07.15

Decemberists: Cavalry Captain

Cilla Black: Step Inside Love

Adele: Rumor Has It

Phoenix: Trying To be Cool

Against Me!: I Was A Teenage Anarchist

Spoon: Written In Reverse

Bye Bye Birdie Original Cast: Telephone Song

Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band: I’m The Urban Spaceman

MGMT: Time To Pretend

Keith Moon: When I’m 64

Nirvana: Dumb

Bob Dylan: 4th Time Around

Clash: Hitsville UK

Carly Simon: You’re So Vain

Dire Straits: Money For Nothing

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In December 1940, as America was emerging from the Great Depression, more than 5,000 industrialists from across the nation made their yearly pilgrimage to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, convening for the annual meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers. The program promised an impressive slate of speakers: titans at General Motors, General Electric, Standard Oil, Mutual Life, …

“FACEBOOK’S POWER IS TO SORT WHAT PEOPLE SEE AND TO SCREEN INFORMATION. THAT’S BASICALLY WHAT GOOGLE DOES, TOO”

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