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Classic Underated Albums: ABC - "Beauty Stab"
Like almost everything I post on this blog, ABC's "Beauty Stab" album was released in November of 1983. It was never going to live up to their classic Trevor Horn produced album " The Lexicon Of Love"...
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Forgive me for this shameless bit of self promotion
One of you faithful readers asked me to re-post "THE GAME OF LIES". and since I wrote it I know I can legally post it...I think......perhaps I should sue myself.But since I already posted that...
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SPOOKY SCARY
The weather turns cooler....the leaves change color...and all the stores have their Christmas decorations up. This can only mean one thing: HALLOWEEN is coming!!!Time for a little Halloween mix:First...
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BLANCMANGE
They should have been HUGE, but for some reason Harrow, Middlesex's BLANCMANGE remained on the sidelines for most of their short career. So what if they weren't the eye-candy that DEPECHE MODE were....
View ArticleTWIRLING...TWIRLING...TWIRLING TOWARDS FREEDOM
Here we are....FINALLY.......today is the season finale of the drama we call ELECTION. Which one of your favourite characters win ? Will it be Grampa Grumpy-pants? LORD I HOPE NOT!!!!But that would be...
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The Cure invented Mash-Ups (link fixed)
OK....not REALLY, but this 1981 side project had a very interesting history......Cult Hero's " I'M A CULT HERO" b/w "I DIG YOU" is a very unique oddity.The single was conceived by Robert Smith...
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NEW WAVE CLASSICS - Part One
In 1981, Way Of The West released their debut single, "Don't Say That's Just For White Boys". The B side was "Prove It". The English new wave band released five singles by 1984 but disappeared before...
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That was good...what ELSE ya got?
Talking About an artist's big hit is BORING.....what always fascinated me was what they did for a follow-up. Usually the next single after a hit would have been a hit as well, or at least be remembered...
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WEIRD COVERS
There are covers .....and then there are COVERS. In this day and age we forget that not every artist writes their own material. MOST do....but then again...a lot DO NOT.So.....it is left to the artist...
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RANDOM - Part two
I KNOW...I KNOW....I haven't written in over 6 weeks...been busy at the 'ol day job and sleepy at night....but I have a couple of minutes so here goes another post. Since I can't think of any...
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A Musical Dream
The other night I had a dream. One of many that night, but at the end of it I could hear Coldplay performing a version of the Smiths "Asleep" ...and it sounded amazing. I woke with this song in my head...
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I have been slowly but surely fixing some of these bad links, starting with the ones you have left comments about...please re-check. Thank you all for your interest in this blog
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OK....I know, I know. I've been busy. Haven't posted anything in a real long time. So, now what to do? Since I'm going through all my records (with the goal of selling them all on EBAY) and putting...
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...OK, so I have gotten SOOO many requests to put up the B-sides of that ALONE AGAIN OR 12-inch, so here they areALONE AGAIN OR - "Smarter Than The Average Bear"ALONE AGAIN OR - "Drum The Beat (Shall...
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The ONLY Rap I can handle
Rap.......Hip/Hop......Crunk........Junk.....whatever you want to call it, it is a form of "music" that I have been waiting to go away now for over 30 years. Funny how time has softened me on the early...
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Show the world you love Rock and Roll
I was recently browsing through the $1 section (the floor, actually) of one of the last remaining "record" stores left on this island. I sometimes find great lost treasures. 12-inch singles I used to...
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And Balloon Boy Blew Up In My Hand
OK......this entry has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Balloon Boy hoax, but I didn't want to let a good headline go to waste.Instead, let's talk about one of the greatest songs of the 90's. Perhaps...
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Mummys, Werewolves and Vampires. Oh My
It's that time again kiddies....it's Halloween. Yay.....whooo....big whoop. The best thing about Halloween has always been the music, so here's a couple of treats for yaFrom Ska masters BAD MANNERS...
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The 15 albums that made me who I am - Part 1:
Part one of a 5 part post:Music.......it's been my life. From the second I emerged from the womb I have had a love for music. Music is constantly playing around me at all times....when I go to sleep...
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The 15 albums that made me who I am - Part 2
......And now we skip a few years. When we last left our hero he was stuck in December 1980. John Lennon had just been killed and he became Obsessed with all thing Beatle related (an obsession that...
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The 15 albums that made me who I am - Part 3
It's time to face the music........1985. What a crazy year for me......absolutely crazy. I touched upon that a bit in part 2, so with all that craziness, is it any wonder that 1986 was a much better...
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The 15 Albums That Made Me Who I Am (parts 4 & 5 of a 5 part post)
#11 MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO - Satyricon" (1992)It was the dawn of the 90's and in addition to working my days away at Soundtraks records I was also now a working Disc Jockey. Both at the clubs (Voodoo) and...
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Classic 12-inch Singles: BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - THE BOTTOM LINE
What a fantastic start. Right out of the gate....In 1985. The debut single from Mick Jones' post-Clash project had everything we could have all hoped for. Great guitar, wonderful chorus, Hip/Hop beats...
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Classic 12-inch : COMBO AUDIO - "ROMANTICIDE"
First signed to the Secret Records label in 1982, Combo Audio (John Kellogg and Rick Neuhus) began what some thought would be a long and illustrious career in the burgeoning New Wave market. It didn't...
View ArticleI GIVE UP
I know it's been a while and I haven't posted anything in over a year...but today I put together a post like i used to....and for some reason I'm getting error messages when I try to embed MP3's into...
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