Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Dire Straits - Skateaway

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Picking the strongest song from Dire Straits classic album Making Movies is almost like picking your favorite finger.  The LP (justly ranked...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

The Church - Under the Milky Way

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A lush, haunting song, "Under the Milky Way" almost did not make it on to The Church's 1988 album, Starfish.  When bassist/sin...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song

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One of the prototypical early MTV bands, A Flock of Seagulls gets a bad rap as "that one hit wonder band with the hair."  In fact,...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

The La's - There She Goes

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Astute readers may look at this post and think, "Isn't this song from the early 1990s?"  And they would be half-right (but let...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Billy Burnette - In Just a Heartbeat

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The son and nephew of rock and roll performers (Dorsey and Johnny Burnette of the Rock and Roll Trio), Billy has spent his entire life as a ...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Cameo - Word Up

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One of the more interesting (and eccentric) bands of the 1980s was the funk group known as Cameo.  The band was formed in the mid-1970s, wit...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Replacements - I'll Be You

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The Replacements were an influential alt-rock band whose popularity never matched their impact.  This is at least partly due to their behavi...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon

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Mike Scott's masterpiece began on a snowy New York City street in January 1985, when his girlfriend asked him whether it was hard to wri...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour

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Best known as the rhythm guitarist for the Go-Go's , Jane Wiedlin also released two albums that charted in the 1980s, and has released t...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Rocky Burnette - Tired of Toein' the Line

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Rocky Burnette (given name: Jonathan), was the son of early rocker Johnny Burnette.  Johnny wrote "You're Sixteen," later made...
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