HeyJaredKalowski's Substack
My personal Substack about music, mainly, with the odd foray into other aspects of culture.
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The top 25 singles from 1977 (opens the original)
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Part fifteen of an ongoing project where I write about my twenty-five favourite singles year after year. I started in 1963, when The Beatles exploded and modern pop music was revolutionised and I’ll end in 1989, when I turned 18.The year that Jimmy Carter became president also saw the release of Star Wars, another blockbuster film that took the world by storm. We also saw Djibouti gain independence from France after having been a French colony for over 100 years. That spirit of change also saw t
The Kalowski Vaults: Elvis Presley (opens the original)
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DescriptionIn this podcast I look at the period of Elvis’ career that ran from 1968 to 1971, looking at his return to live performance that was powered by the incredible ‘68 comeback special. I discuss the albums he released during that period, and think about what could have been, if he’d had the energy to keep experimenting and pushing himself into new areasLinksThe ‘68 Comeback Special: Charro: Edge of Reality: <div class="y
Tom Waits: Small Change (opens the original)
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Small Change was the second Tom Waits album I bought. After being introduced to Swordfishtrombones, I knew I wanted to hear more, but I knew nothing about him.Of course, I couldn’t search him up on some streaming app and start to delve into his work, this was even before Napster opened up the world of music to us obsessives.Subscribe nowI was visiting my mother, who was renting a flat in Muswell Hill in London. She was at work and I was wandering
U2 - Achtung Baby (opens the original)
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During the middle of August I wrote a short note on SubstackAt the time of writing this it had received 54 replies, virtually all in agreement with me, such as I felt like it needed a deeper write up…Subscribe nowRecording at Hansa Studios on Köthener Straße in West Berlin, where Bowie and Iggy Pop had recorded in the late 70s and Nick Cave recorded The Firstborn Is Dead and Your Funeral... My Trial in the 80s, t
The Kalowski Vaults: Scott Walker (opens the original)
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DescriptionIn this podcast I look at Scott Walker’s whole career, looking at his desire to experiment from the his Walker Brothers b-sides and early solo records, remembering how he went from those amazing Brel-tinged Scott albums to the mid 70s covers records, before his sudden reinvention with the amazing Nite Flights tracks that first showed Bowie’s influence. I look at the late-period trilogy of Tilt, The Drift, and Bish Bosch, and suggest that his entire catalogue and not just his final dec
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