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This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s: Dave Alvin's "Every Night About This Time"
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:50:00 +0800
Roots rockers of the '80s did more than their part to confuse the hell out of record executives and radio programmers, as this fine track from Alvin's 1987 solo debut,...
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Devo Stands Up to Fast Food Raids on '80s Music Culture
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:07:00 +0800
Well, it's been nearly 18 months since I last ranted specifically in this space about the sad, almost inevitable intersection of crass commercialism and '80s music. But this time I...
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This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s: 'Til Tuesday's "Coming Up Close"
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:20:00 +0800
As one of the most consistently excellent songwriters and performers of the last 25 years, Aimee Mann stands out as one of the premier '80s artists capable of completely transcending...
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Rootsy Guitar Pop Artist Nick Lowe a Major If Not Fully Acknowledged '80s Music Legend
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:01:00 +0800
In the course of composing material for this site, I've often stopped to consider carefully just what makes a group or individual an '80s artist rather than merely one who...
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This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s: Hothouse Flowers' "Don't Go"
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:01:00 +0800
Anyone under the false but popular impression that '80s music was more often than not painfully homogenous and lacking in soul should make some immediate time to crank up this...
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Stains of the PMRC Unfortunately Linger in Our Collective '80s Music Education
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:06:00 +0800
If you're old enough to remember how laughably frightened some people were of '80s heavy metal prior to the menace-ectomy administered to the genre by the reign of hair metal,...
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This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s: Fiction Factory's "(Feels Like) Heaven"
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:24:00 +0800
This largely unknown British band belatedly perfected a distinctly post-new wave yet still unabashedly New Romantic sound on this criminally underrated track from 1984. Lead singer Kevin Patterson provides the...
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An '80s-Themed Elvis-Beatles Debate... Well, Sort Of
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:38:00 +0800
OK, this is far from a perfect parallel, but I'm running with it anyway. You remember the wonderful moment in Pulp Fiction when Mrs. Marsellus Wallace interviews Vincent Vega before...
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This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s: the Soft Boys' "There's Nobody Like You"
Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:28:00 +0800
There are a number of exhilaratingly strange elements to England's punk-era misfits the Soft Boys, not the least of which is the mind-blowing fact that the band's guitarist, Kimberley Rew,...
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A Worthy Exception - My Bloody Valentine Reunion Deserves Special Mention
Sat, 31 May 2008 16:59:00 +0800
I suppose I could spend a great deal of my time attempting to cover the many reunions of '80s-era bands that have taken place over the last few years, from...
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