mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 18/09/2026Brought my Duncan Sheik CDs to work today to vigil. 020
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 01/09/2026This week my 10 SONGS playlist is all Dolly Parton … but the songs aren’t culled from the usual batch you always hear. Dive in below 🦋 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/51n... Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 000
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 31/08/2026Bring back CD Maxi-singles with FLP cases that snapped. We used to be a proper country! 020
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 30/08/2026This Sunday morning music lineup of Beth Orton, Midlake, Natalie Merchant and Billie Myers albums did what it needed to do! Time to switch over to Rochelle Jordan and Madonna’s Confessions II 🪩🪩… 010
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 30/08/2026Love this Madonna nugget inside a bt retrospective CD I picked up recently where he regales about the “Drowned World / Substitute for Love” remix he made with DJ Sasha. It involves Madonna calling a local CompUSA on his behalf when things went off the rails. Always read the liner notes! 020
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 15/06/2026New Madonna era got me making fan edits for Danceteria 👸🏼🪩 WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE 010
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 01/06/2026If you watched John Travolta’s “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” apple.co/propeller this weekend on Apple TV and loved the music… I made a playlist of select tracks from our film just for you! Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6iC... Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 000
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 18/04/2026OBVIOUSLY I updated my Madonna playlist this morning with I Feel So Free. Links below! Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Jb... Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... Youtube: youtube.com/playlist?lis... 030
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 17/04/2026Nice sonic callbacks to Future Lovers in Madonna’s I Feel So Free. Even the lyrics about creating a new persona are a reference to the message in FL. Effective tethering to the vibe of COADF without being overtly referential. Chills! 000
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 15/04/2026My thoughts on Madonna’s Confessions II cover… and what some of the subject matter on the album may lean into. 020
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 15/04/2026Here's a video from November where a DJ dropped that spoken word snippet "Oh by the way it all started like this" right before Lil Louis's "French Kiss" … the same snippet we hear in the preview for Madonna's "I Feel So Free". Anyone know where this spoken word is from? 000
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 18/03/2026Sometimes you stumble upon an album you immediately want to frame. 010
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 15/03/2026I grabbed this Dirty Vegas non-stop mix CD bc it kicks off with the Scumfrog remix of Kylie Minogue’s “Love At First Sight” but with Underworld, Frankie Knuckes, Celeda etc…the entire album is five star. 000
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 15/03/2026Finding this European Enya collection (promo copy!) with a suede cover was quite a surprise. Only $4! 131
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 14/03/2026Picked up some CDs this week as I continue building a new collection after the fire last year. I never say “rebuilding” bc tbh so many I lost were either rare or I didn’t have catalogued so I’ll never be able to fully replace them. Still incredibly angry about that… and also all the vinyl I lost. 130
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 12/02/2026To celebrate Sarah McLachlan’s Tiny Desk today (finally!) shout out if you BOUGHT her new album last year 💁🏻♂️ 020
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 08/02/2026And I was geeked to stumble upon this European release (CD2 of 2) of “Spark” by Tori Amos that has her cover of Steely Dan’s “Do It Again” and several cardboard inserts that look like Polaroid snapshots. Now I need CD1. 010
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 08/02/2026Also happy to find a 1984 German CD release of The Style Council’s ‘Cafe Bleu’ with “The Paris Match” featuring Tracey Thorn on vocals and Ben Watt on guitar. They were named as “Hon. Councillors” in the liner notes. 100
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 08/02/2026Particularly happy to get this limited edition Mariah Carey double CD of ‘Memoirs of an imperfect Angel’ back in my collection because it includes a CD of “Obsessed” remixes plus the mini Elle magazine insert where Mariah lists her LP releases up to that point… except for ‘Glitter’. 100
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 08/02/2026Picked up a few more CDs lately as I build a new collection after the fire: EBTG, Deep Dish, Mariah Carey, Cher, Thievery Corporation, William Orbit, The Style Council, Mandalay, Ben Watt, Sasha & John Digweed… Some of these you can’t get on streaming but physical media lasts forever 💿 110
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 04/02/2026Janet Jackson’s ‘Control’ is 40 today. 40!!! I was 16 when she dropped this and it immediately became one of several pop albums - along with Madonna, Duran Duran and others - that laid the bedrock to my pop music taste that’s forever in overdrive today. 🧵1/4 120
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 31/01/2026Slowly rebuilding my dance CD collection. Been hunting for this Deep Dish album and finally got my hands on it at Amoeba Hollywood this week. Richard Morel is all over this, Lem Springsteen (Ultra Naté’s “Free”) and BT play on it and it’s got one of my all time fave dance tracks… 1/2 ⬇️ 110
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 29/01/2026Lol’ng at the whiplash of my Heavy Rotation on Apple Music 000
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 17/01/2026The transition from Candi Staton’s “Hallelujah Anyway” to “Worthy” ft Jocelyn Brown brought a tear to my eye. Church! 010
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 16/01/2026First spin of the Cameron Winter album and now I wanna play a bunch of Rufus Wainwright. 010
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 15/01/2026Another example of why you can’t trust Google’s or anyone else’s AI summaries. Factually incorrect! 000
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 12/01/2026I played CDs all day. Wish every Sunday could be like this. 260
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 11/01/2026What Grateful Dead album is everyone playing rn? I pulled up Anthem of the Sun. 110
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 07/01/2026I’ve been dreading this anniversary week for months. Tonight I’ll be with community in Altadena as we make it to the 1-year mark. 110
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 05/01/2026Dropped my first “10 SONGS” playlist for 2026. This week’s collection has Mariah Carey, Radiohead, ANOHNI and 2 songs from Heated Rivalry (which I finished last nite and thought was just okay but I digress…) Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/51n... 000
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 02/01/2026A cover so stunning I keep a copy in our living room. 040
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 02/01/2026What was the first album you played on January 1st? Mine: 010
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 02/01/2026I’m a completist so I needed the year to end before posting my 25 favorite albums of 2025. I wish Rosalía’s ‘LUX’ connected with me but my music consumption this past year after losing everything in the Eaton Fire in Altadena was all about ease and immediacy. Maybe I’ll vibe with it in 2026. 240
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 01/01/2026Reading about the time Linda Ronstadt met Princess Margaret at a Beverly Hills party in 1978. With color commentary by Michael Caine. Did not go well! 020
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 31/12/2025My 10 favorite songs of 2025. This was difficult! But when I pare down a list I pick songs I’ll want to hear years from now. It’s not about contemporary impact… it’s about longevity. These are 2025 songs that will follow me into the future. Including Mariah Carey, Baxter Dury and Addison Rae. 102
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 31/12/2025My favorite lyric from a 2025 song. This line knocked me sideways. I thought about it for days and days... 000
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 30/12/2025I don’t know how this Baxter Dury album flew into my orbit but its songs are an engrossing mix of salty storytelling, underpinnings of despair, and open-shirted intercontinental characters set to dance music. Like a wild mix of “Trainspotting” and Cerrone. Look at these lyrics they are fn poetry… 000
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 28/12/2025‘Twas a year of solid albums with black and white cover shots… 110
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 26/12/2025TIL 10,000 Maniacs removed “Peace Train” from later pressings of ‘In My Tribe’ after Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam wouldn’t condemn Ayatollah Khomeni’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie because of his “The Satanic Verses” novel in ‘89. 000
mark j. marraccini @marramark.com · 24/12/2025Nat Geo readying a Will Smith travel series called “Pole to Pole” in the wake of “Heated Rivalry” is culture! 210