The Ol' Blitzeroo

Simply put, a blitz is what happens when you listen to every CD you own, front to back, A to Z. Chronologically. No cheating.

The ol' Blitzeroo is what happens when you do the same thing with someone else's CDs. The Face-grabber and I will be swapping our music collections in the new year and diving deep into each other's closet catalogues. What follows is the day-to-day progress...

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

I don't know how to "write" that long wailing note at the start of Rhapsody In Blue but if I could, that would be the subject of this post.

I need to add Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue to the list of Jer's Super-Favs . This piece of music, all 17 minutes of it, drives me to...

Confession.

I may or may not been seen snapping my fingers to Wake Me Up Before You Go Go on the George and Friends CD. I say maybe not because I oft...

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Should You Wonder...

My car was sidelined this week with an impotent windshield wiper. (When the windshield wipers stop working, it translates to an astonishing ...

Monday, August 08, 2005

Now don't tell anybody...

Of all the songs to do it, Illegal Alien puts a big fat grin on my lid every time. There's something about that poppy beat and the abso...

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

On and on and on and on and on...

Or what we'll call Jer's Super-Favs Part II. I suppose that I should mention Foo Fighters' Aurora , which I didn't really co...

Saturday, July 16, 2005

Jumping Way Way Forward ---> P

I don't have much to say about Ella Fitzgerald so I'm going to post a random thought. Something which won't be relevent until I ...

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Beatles Still Livin' Large.

It's worth a follow up post to let you know that I absolutely loved that Filter CD and was soaked in disappointment when it ended. (Thou...

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Faith No More or Less.

Can we take a moment to jimmy-jam about disc 5? I'm talking now about Hold It Right There, Freaks which is the sort of odds and ends co...

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

In the Absense of a Recent Blog...

...I thought an update was in order. I'm certainly not ignoring the blog. In fact, the truth is that I've had very little time to bl...

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Don't Read This Post.

There's just no easy way to navigate a CD called Don't Play Track One during a blitz. As you must know. And that first track was an...

DMX Never Played At The Opry

I spoke too soon. If the transition from Discover Classical Music to the Dixie Chicks was abrupt , then the flip from Shania Twain (last tr...

Monday, June 13, 2005

Dixie Barbarians.

You wouldn't know to look at it, but I think that the transition between Discover Classical Music (which ends on Carl Orff's pillag...

Saturday, June 11, 2005

The Brief and The Sweaty

It's too hot in this house to sit in one place for longer than 10 minutes. So you're getting just a quick and dirty update on the D...

Monday, June 06, 2005

I was never much of a Def Leppard fan, but...

...let's admit that there's no easy way to sneak around Make Love Like a Man . Call it what you will, but you know that it's a l...

Sunday, June 05, 2005

Jer's Super-Favs Part I.

I should have been keeping track of this from the beginning, I suppose. Just a heads up when a bestest favorite song - I mean a true desert-...

Miles to Minneapolis

It's pretty clear after listening to Miles Davis' Live Around the World just why he and Prince got on so well in the last few years...

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

The Home Stretch.

Maybe it's a little early to start calling in the outfielders, but I just finished The Cure and will be starting Miles Davis on Friday w...

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Rock 'n Roll 'n Lipstick??

Please share with me the source for your Cure collection title. I'm a Cure fan and am at a loss to decifer GNATTEE . The Cure couldn...

Neil Reflects...

I was thrilled by the audio commentary for Crowded House's Afterglow . Because clearly that's what it was. To have the writer/musici...

Crowded Ringo v.2

OK, never mind. I still don't hear a resounding Beatles influence in Crowded House, but I have rolled across a couple of obvious Beatle...

Friday, May 27, 2005

Crowded Ringo.

Here's a topic I'd like to open to the floor. You've mentioned a couple of times (and most recently in a Crapberries comment bel...

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Sheryl Crow, Into The Box You Go...

A quick bit on Sheryl Crow, because you asked. There are some artists that simply help drive home the cause to time-capsule my CD collection...

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

Timing is everything. The music gods see to that. Gruelling traffic on the 401 tonight. But with the windows down, a warm spring/summer bree...

Friday, May 20, 2005

Oh, just to be a clear…

The last three posts seem so disappointed, angry and cynical that I felt like I should step up and explain: I am still loving this Ol’ Blit...

Revenge of the Crap-berries?

Is there a wrestling term for a face who turns heel and then turns face again? I’m talking about a 360 degree character turn? It happens all...

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Document Indeed.

For a moment – just a moment there – I forgot what I was listening to, and Counting Crows began to sound very much like an REM CD. Never muc...

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

What Happened to Harry?

Harry Connick Jr. and I fell out after high school. I can’t say why. In the late days of high school (and early University), he was the cat’...

Monday, May 16, 2005

When Harry's Evil Imposter Met Sally...

A quick note on Harry Connick Jr. I'll be delving a little deeper into his run of swing-funk-swing-swing in the next few days, but in th...

Sunday, May 15, 2005

Two Bits of Business on the Canadian Male Voice.

First. Did you get this collection of Leonard Cohen tracks from me? I ask because I never knew and would probably not have guessed that you ...

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Best Blitzeroo Fake-Out To Date?

That Cinema Classics CD that followed the church hymns. When the funkified, 70's-filtered cover of Also Sprach Zarathustra started up, ...

Monday, May 09, 2005

Headline: Man Killed By Amazing Grace.

Here's something you didn't know about me. And how could you? Church music - I mean honest-to-goodness religious hymns - put me to s...

Christmas in May.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was probably the only one on the 401 listening to Christmas carols in this morning's rush hour. And t...

Honer Boners and etc.

The sad thing? I think a few stray thoughts have probably fallen through the cracks during my accidental and spontaneous trip to blog silenc...

Crap.

Is it really closing in on a month since my last post?? Damn, chico - you really should've said something.

Monday, April 11, 2005

Brickman Finally Rolls.

The Blitzbreaker popped up at last, on the way home tonight. Would you believe that I thought Jim Brickman was a country artist? I was expec...

Bowie in a Box.

Finished Bowie a couple of days, but still thought I should share. A little background reading on David Bowie's discography (which is on...

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

This other thing.

By the way, just a quick observation but I've always thought of Under Pressure as a Queen tune that just happens to feature David Bowie...

Lift Off.

I think we all listen for the same thing: that song and that perfect moment of lift off that happens in just one tune in a thousand. The son...

Monday, March 28, 2005

Opera In One Ear.

With the warm weather coming on, the days of the brakelight/CD-pause phenomenon are pretty much at a close. So it is that my CD changer, spi...

Check your calendar but it would seem that March is Blue Rodeo month!

Or so it seems to me. Between the LA trip, the week-long vacation, the short week last week and the Easter holiday, I can swear to you that ...

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Credentials? Yes, please.

Who, I mean who , is Rufus Blaq exactly? And is this CD for real? Kind of an interesting chaser to 80 tracks of Big Band goodness.

Thursday, February 24, 2005

Coffee Table Rock Candy.

Such sweet business is the Big Band Era . I'm almost finished the first disc of the set and am overjoyed with the places it's taking...

Sandra Bullock. Just Driving Straight and Fast.

A new wrinkle. In the deep, deep cold of February it turns out that signalling to turn now causes my CD changer to go on short and temporary...

Monday, February 21, 2005

Ah, the CD Changer wasn't broken after all.

Another 16-17 minutes of that loop waiting for the ride home. And maybe, just maybe, the longest, slowest fade out I've ever heard. So l...

Longer Than the Top of Toronto (at least)

Of course you must have known it was coming up and laughed to yourself. Your little secret. Your little knife in my back. I'm talking ab...

Friday, February 18, 2005

number9number9number9number9number9...

I don't know what it says about the day to come when you spend the drive in to work listening to Revolution #9 . I don't know what d...

Thursday, February 17, 2005

More on That There Do-Wop Band

I don't need Beatles covers. Isn't it funny that some bands, certain artists just feel wrong singing someone else's material? I ...

You Have to Admit It's Getting Better, Better All the Time.

These are the runs you wait for in a blitz of any kind. CDs in the changer today: Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club ...

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Barenaked in the Morning.

I dunno. The Barenaked Ladies experience was a little more cynical and moody than I was expecting. Between songs like Hello City and Never ...

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Rage Against the Soundgarden

You were right. Audioslave was far more Soundgarden than Rage Against the Machine. Which is a pity, because I was really in the mood for a l...

Monday, February 07, 2005

Hm, oh crap.

I knew I was relying on your Word document too much. Amid the ballyhoo of trying to figure out whether to blitz the Barenaked Ladies or t...

Tangled Up in the Retards.

I'm afraid it's true. For every up, there's a down, and for every Alice In Chains , there's a Fiona Apple . Tonight (and ...

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Hm, by the way.

Quick question about the playing order of your CDs. I'm working from the Word doc you sent, but just noticed that you've alphabet...

Maybe she's so angry because she's so boring?

I would much rather have listened to Tidal No-Frills tonight. As much as revisiting Anthrax's Attack of the Killer B's was a fun t...

Monday, January 31, 2005

Still Keeping It In The Family.

One of the delightful things about this Blitzeroo is listening to old titles turn up that I had long since lost or sold. Anthrax's Attac...

Sweet Music Gods.

In translating the subject line below, I was messing with a German-English translator and stumbled onto this: Blitz english translation...

Dieser Blitzkrieg kickt Bälle.

The hardest thing to explain about a Blitz is what makes it so special. After all, most people know their music collections pretty well, and...

All The Best From Monday Morning.

There's a story here. You're clearly not German, so perhaps this is something from Patty's heritage? Or perhaps some important c...

Saturday, January 29, 2005

Second Generation Angst.

I'm not a superstitious guy. Even so, switching up to a CD called Car Crash Survivor while navigating the 401 Express lanes with one kn...

Thursday, January 27, 2005

Alice.

Making it quick. I'm in a rush. Can I assume that the sometimes-titled Allison Chains CDs are entirely made up of Alice in Chains? Pr...

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Dude Looks Like Liv Tyler

Aerosmith's Permanent Vacation is the first CD to show up with one of your leftover wedding stickies - reminding me that track #9 is a ...

Monday, January 24, 2005

The Worldwide Shortage of Babies Named Mutt.

Something to think about. I cruised home tonight listening to Bryan Adams' So Far So Good and the Mutt Lange songs stuck out as clea...

Sunday, January 23, 2005

Super Pooper

Funny thing about ABBA - I can't imagine I would ever put a CD on outside of a blitz. The songs always seem so old and tired to me, w...

Thursday, January 20, 2005

80 Degree Rawk

...was an absolute blast . Granted it was only the third CD in the Ol' Blitzeroo, but it also carries the distinction of being the first...

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

AC Dixie.

Didn't get a whole lot of time to blitz today on account of the weather. Took the train, y'see. At any rate, one quick thing. You...

Tuesday, January 18, 2005

YTD Lesson #8: Always Give Rock the Right of Way.

Ah, I haven't rocked out like that in a very long time. On the 401, amid ugly, ugly rush-hour traffic, I cranked the AC/DC to a level...

For Those About to Rock...

So it goes. And it started out really, really, really cold. Hell's Bells at 6 in the AM, under the blanket of a nut-shrinking -35º...

Friday, December 24, 2004

Indeed.

I started pulling together the list of CDs last night into an Excel file, as you know I'll need to keep track of what I'm listening ...

Thursday, December 23, 2004

Don't panic.

It's too early. Much too early to start the blitz. This blog should be relatively quiet until sometime in the New Year. Mid-January p...

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