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Reset Halloween

Let’s make it bigger than Christmas! We’ll start before Labor Day and celebrate ’til Black Friday, or at least until the candy runs out.

But we don’t have to. Millions of Americans are rightly deciding this pagan campaign to celebrate death has become too commercialized, too slutty, too last century. Instead of turning out the lights and leaving a basket on the stoop to appease the pagan hordes, perhaps it’s time to affirm that Halloween, properly understood, is historically, a Christian Feast, and worth a cultural reset.

Boston Boston, 1976

Boston – Foreplay/Long Time

“Foreplay” is the first song ever recorded by MIT grad/musical genious Tom Scholz. Written in 1969 and recorded on a two-track machine in his basement in 1971, “Foreplay” merged with “Long Time” on It’s a Knockout, a sampler LP to EPIC records, before being released on Boston’s monumental debut album BOSTON (1976).

ELO Mr. Blue Sky

Mr. Blue Sky

ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky is considered one of the happiest songs ever created.  When life gets you down, and it will, this song can restart your joie de vivre.

Basically, Jeff Lynne wrote it after spending two weeks under dreary rain, and the sun finally rose.

Jackie Evancho Pie Jesu

With all our political struggles going on, we sometimes need to remind ourselves why our Western culture and American values are worth preserving.

This Restorative is brought to you by America’s Got Talent. Back in 2010, a little girl from Pittsburgh showed up on stage and knocked out everybody with one of the greatest voices of our age.

Dream On

Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ), is a rotating musical collective founded by arranger and pianist Scott Bradlee in 2011. He’s pulled in various former American Idol contestants, and this one is notable because Morgan James seemed to come out of nowhere (actually Juilliard), with the pipes to sing Aerosmith’s Dream On…