PaulCollegio.net Moonlight Radio - The On-Line Jukebox Guide Page This page will guide you to the various categories in the Moonlight Radio jukeboxes. Each has a link to the current category page, and the archive link will take you to the entire archiver of Moonlight Radio. mp3 Jukeboxes | Comment

	12 Little Bunnies: This is the page that started all of this. In june, 2004, I got the idea to put together a dozen tracks on an easy to navigate page so I could have a little bit of my music from home in my office, without having to wrangle another device. This page was the result. It quickly began to include additional single-track specialty categories and the outgrowth of that has become this unwieldy beast.
	Disco Sucks!: A familiar chant that took me by surprise when I left NYC for Boston in the fall of 1978. Disco was a way of life in Brooklyn, and much less important to the general population at the time. This page presents single disco tracks. And Puka shells. And Qiana nylon. And Velour Leisure suits. And Platform shoes. And oh, the lingering scent of Aramis. Enough to make you click repeat over and over and over... This category was introduced in June of 2004.
	Big Ten Inch: This page unapologetically presents a 78 RPM record culled from the vault, in all its glorious surface noise. These tracks will almost always be blues or doo wop. But there are some surprise exceptions. This category was introduced in July of 2004.
	Strange: Incredibly Strange Music: Inspired by the book of a similar name, these are chosen for their viability as probable soundtracks to Incredibly Strange Films. This category was introduced in July of 2004.
	Threshold: The Threshold category features songs that changed the world, forever -- or so we thought. We stood at the turning point... These are songs which have significant personal meaning to me, which were present at any of a variety of imnportant moments. You're mileage may vary. This category was introduced in September of 2004.
	45 RPM: The cherished 45 RPM record celebrated its 50th anniversary just a few years ago to little applause. Completely overcome by events in technology, the 45 lives on as an icon to American culture cutting across lines perhaps moreso than any other piece of Americana history. Remaining now only as a kitsch promotional item among major labels and as a boutique niche market item for collectors of alternative music, the 45 remains a staple of listening for many die hard music fans. This category pays homage to the 45 RPM record. The track presented here is a 45 just aching to be rediscovered. This category was introduced in November of 2004.
	Doo Wop: I'm just old and jaded, so don't mind me, but the Beatles did NOT invent rock music. Blues , R&B and doo wop. Essential listening for the true rock lover. The Doo Wop page selects a sweet doo wop song, almost always presented in its original, very collectible format. This category was introduced in November of 2004.
	DOKUMENT: The DOKUMENT jukebox takes its name from an obscure Boston post-industrial band and documents various forms of related musical insanity hidden in the woodwork. Mad geniuses and kooks abound. Mostly, its just a lot of loud noise... This category was introduced in December of 2004.
	Bitch Diva: Oh, how we love them, our ladies of the torch. But watch it, she can only take so much. The Bitch Diva track will have you smoking, drinking and crying, lamenting over him/her/both, a love supreme gone horribly amiss... If you're still unsure, check out my Diva Primer Page. All will be told there... This category was introduced in March of 2005.
	The Moonlight Lounge: This music is known by so many different names, you'd never know it all points back to the same stuff. Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, lounge music, whatever. Kick your feet up, relax and forget the labels. The Moonlight Lounge will make you thirst for exotic cocktails and boomerang coffee tables. *wink* This category was introduced in March of 2005.
	PKG: The PKG category focuses on musicians who believe that meaningful, elaborate and beautiful packaging are equally important as their sound. This category was introduced in May of 2005.
	Cassettera: Cassettera focuses on musicians who made use of the grass-roots independent cassette network during the 1980s and 90s. Cassette culture thrived for years almost from the beginning of cheap home recorders and high quality chrome blank tapes. The mix tape thing will be with us forever, with people calling CDRs tapes - I still can't figure that one out. But this is not about that. This is about labels that existed either as cassette-only labels, or labels who put a lot of effort into their cassettes. By definition, this is all obscure, impossible to find and the recording fidelity varies allover the place. But that's all part of the charm. This category was introduced in May of 2005.
	The Modern Method: The Modern Method presents a selection of twentieth century composer music - stochastically selected, of course. This jukebox page is for modern academic music, since, conceptually, so much of it flows down into our beloved popular avant garde. It's good to keep a scholarly eye on these things... This category was introduced in June of 2005.
	Jazz (For People Who Hate Jazz): Jazz on the edges of the word. It's kinda like that... This category was introduced in June of 2005.
	Speak: Here's where we stop the music let the man speak... This category was introduced in June of 2005.
	Is it an LP? or a Single? : Whatever, this format a personal favorite of mine, because no one knows exactly what to make of them. Somewhat of a novelty, they catch the eye in record shops because of their unique display challenge; not since the 78 RPM record was in wide distribution have there been any retail shelving designed to display these items. This category was introduced in August of 2005.
	Compilation track: Compilations are interesting beasts in that the really successful ones succeed as a complete album but are comprised of a sum of often radically different elements. The Compilation Track category selects a track from one of the compilations I happen to be listening to at the moment. Compilations almost always get trashed in the press because they generally present such a wide array of music that no single reviewer likes more than a fraction of what is presented. I like these compilations precisely for that reason. This category was introduced in August of 2005.
	That Seventies' track!: The 1970's was a turning point for music in a lot of ways. Not since rock was born twenty years earlier had there been the kind of re-org that occurred when punk rock emerged in the middle of the decade, and that set the stage for a major shift in the way music was recorded, produced, manufacured, distributed and sold. THAT SEVENTIES TRACK is meant to present the songs on the wrong side of the punk rock tracks, with a tongue planted firmly in our cheeks. This category was introduced in December of 2005.
	Another Obsolete Medium: This category will by necessity be short lived. Sony, the only company authorized to manufacture produced minidiscs, has announced they will no longer be manufacturing this format. Well, d'uh. Can you say Betamax? It's a closed architecture; you'd thinky they'd have learned their lesson. Too bad, too, because I love this medium...the best of both worlds between optical and magnetic. Only a handful of independent labels managed to put out minidisc releases, so let's see how far we can take this... This category was introduced in September of 2006.
	Download: This category is for free downloadble tracks only, mostly tracks from bands we love who give away an exclusive track here and their on their websites. I'm also very interested in bringing new artists to light, and this is the forum for that. This category was introduced in September of 2006.
	Flex Your Head! Flexidics, soundsheets - those quintessential freebies in magazine up until the 1980s or so. We love to collect those. They are so fragile and crappy, but they are rare and fabulous nonetheless. The comapny EVA TONE had a monopoly on those records in the US. Non US flexi's are exotic to collectors because they are missing the EVA TONE logo. How many are in YOUR collection?? This category was introduced in September of 2006.
	As Recorded Live: Live track from a Moonlight Radio worthy artist. This category was introduced in June of 2007.
	Precious Footage: Embedded video, almost always music, in line with the Moonlight Radio sensibities. So anything is possible... This category was introduced in June of 2007.
	Bizarro Cover Versions: This page brings you really strange cover versions of songs you are already familiar with. But they were never like this... This category was introduced in June of 2007.
	High School Confidential: Inspired by the classic 1950's Juvenile Delinquent movie, High School Confidential, this goes to the roots of rock 'n' roll on the lighter side of the tracks. Not necessarily by white artists, but definitely for white consumers... This category was introduced in August of 2007.
	Jump, Children!: The great rock'n'roll instrumentals. This category was introduced in August of 2007.
	Featured Artist: This is a new category where I take the work of one artist and delve a bit deeper. Four tracks, each track given a page-worth of attention. This category was introduced in June of 2007.
	Current Homepage Theme: With each jukebox update, a new track is selected to represent PaulCollegio.net. I am definitely open to previously unreleased submissions, so fire up that laptop... This category was introduced in July of 2005.
	Christmas on the Rocks: Have a bluesy, jazzy Christmas. All these original Christmas classics, all on 78. Clicking on an image below will automatically launch a new window with images, informtion about the recording, and music that plays automatically on load. All you need a high speed connection and current browser. This category was introduced at Christmas of 2005.
	12 Fabulous Days of Christmas: One totally fabulous track for each of the Twelve Days of Christmas. Clicking on an image below will automatically launch a new window with images, informtion about the recording, and music that plays automatically on load. All you need a high speed connection and current browser. This category was introduced at Christmas of 2005.
	8 Hogarth Road: 25th anniversary tribute to 4AD records. Featuring tracks from singles of the first two years of the labels output. This category was introduced at January of 2005.
	A Bitter Suite: These are not your typical divas - no Babs or Billie or Judy or Liza. Rather, these are, for the most part, the women scorned, the hoofers climbed over by the likes of Joan Crawford, the never-would-be's, the Valentines that never came. These songs go for the jugular with a crippled, vulnerable warble, a single broken note, or a gravelly, throaty melody suggesting the passage of years and the consumption of many things illicit - all for the sake of a love gone bad. All of these are presented in their original format - surface noise be damned - for that extra touch of historical sincerity. This category was introduced at Valentine's Day of 2004.
	Jukebox Archives: A guide to Moonlight Radio in the past.
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