http://cousinsvinyl.com/2007/another-detroit-tigers-song/ The Best Records from Detroit and Beyond Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:51:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://cousinsvinyl.com/2007/another-detroit-tigers-song/#comment-1494 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:43:25 +0000 http://cousinsvinyl.com/2007/another-detroit-tigers-song/#comment-1494 [...] Listen to Ain’t No Stoppin Us Now/Tigers: [...] […] Listen to Ain’t No Stoppin Us Now/Tigers: […]

]]> http://cousinsvinyl.com/2007/another-detroit-tigers-song/#comment-866 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:19:25 +0000 http://cousinsvinyl.com/2007/another-detroit-tigers-song/#comment-866 [...] One day we were out garage sailing together when I found a still-sealed copy of Durell’s self-titled Island record.  I got my hopes up in thinking it could be worth a lot, and Justin made fun of me.  It turned out it wasn’t - but still -it looked intriguing.  It was still sealed - so we debated on opening it before we finally did.  (Still sealed albums are always more valuable.)  We listened to it, and instantly knew it was a classic, and wouldn’t be sold.  It was like revisiting that modern soul era of the 80s that we grew up with.  It was cheesy, but honest and undeniably catchy.  We knew it was the truth that there was no good argument that this wasn’t great music, even though music snobs across the world would try to deny it.  It’s beyond music snobery - it’s like the kind of music that’s hard to admit that you like it, but you do.  It’s hard to explain, and I will post some audio samples later to show you.  It’s in the same genre as Lee Osler’s Back To Ypsilanti, and Gino Danelli’s Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now/Tigers song.  I play this kind of music for my wife and she laughs and laughs, but she dances!  She feels it!   [...] […] One day we were out garage sailing together when I found a still-sealed copy of Durell’s self-titled Island record.  I got my hopes up in thinking it could be worth a lot, and Justin made fun of me.  It turned out it wasn’t - but still -it looked intriguing.  It was still sealed - so we debated on opening it before we finally did.  (Still sealed albums are always more valuable.)  We listened to it, and instantly knew it was a classic, and wouldn’t be sold.  It was like revisiting that modern soul era of the 80s that we grew up with.  It was cheesy, but honest and undeniably catchy.  We knew it was the truth that there was no good argument that this wasn’t great music, even though music snobs across the world would try to deny it.  It’s beyond music snobery - it’s like the kind of music that’s hard to admit that you like it, but you do.  It’s hard to explain, and I will post some audio samples later to show you.  It’s in the same genre as Lee Osler’s Back To Ypsilanti, and Gino Danelli’s Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now/Tigers song.  I play this kind of music for my wife and she laughs and laughs, but she dances!  She feels it!   […]

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