Feature: Every Scratch, Every Click, Every Heartbeat

"Every Scratch, Every Click, Every Heartbeat": The reference is to Elvis Costello's song "45" which, to oversimplify matters, conflates music and life. All the same, "Bass and treble heal every hurt" and though this series doesn't feature the dreaded soundtrack to my life, it might be said that each entry spotlights "a song to sing to do the measuring."

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Gordon Hauptfleisch

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• Every Scratch, Every Click, Every Heartbeat: "A Million Miles Away" - the Plimsouls.

  Three-and-a-half minutes of eight-miles high life that still packs a wallop of hard-driven delirium after 25 years.

  Opinion by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jul 23, 2009

• Every Scratch, Every Click, Every Heartbeat: Stan Ridgway 1985 Illegal Records EP

  Budding ventriloquist from Barstow makes good. But “you gotta watch the ones who always keep their hands clean - It's the big heat...”

  Opinion by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Jun 03, 2009

• Every Scratch, Every Click, Every Heartbeat: Talking Heads - "The Big Country" and "Cities"

  "Look over there! A dry ice factory! A good place to get some thinking done..."

  Opinion by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 19, 2009

• Every Scratch, Every Click, Every Heartbeat: The Beatles - "Please Please Me"

  What really clinched the deal for Beatles’ fandom was my instantaneously rapturous reaction to the giddy pop thrill of “Please Please Me.”

  Opinion by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Mar 08, 2009

• Every Scratch, Every Click, Every Heartbeat: Bruce Springsteen - "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" and "This Life"

  A balanced sense of melancholy and inspiration is imparted to Bruce Springsteen’s recent Brian Wilson-inspired tracks.

  Opinion by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Feb 21, 2009

• Every Scratch, Every Click, Every Heartbeat: Van Morrison - "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)"

  It’ll take you by surprise, first with Van, sans band, before the full-swingin’ kickapoo joy juice hits ya: “Jackie Wilson said / It was ‘reet-petite’…”

  Opinion by Gordon Hauptfleisch — on Feb 01, 2009