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When I was a teenager I didn't know alot about hair styles or make up. I had the permed look for the 80s and very little make up. Probably just foundation and mascara. I really don't know where people learned more in the 80s... maybe magazines? I looked at magazines but mainly for the clothes that...
Bernard Sumner is not looking so great lately, but his musical talents are undiminished, possibly even better than ever. "Sink Or Swim" by his new band Bad Lieutenant has been lodged in my brain for a week now: That is ten different kinds of catchy! Sumner's reappearance set me off on a New Order...
Terry Fox: April 12, 1980 “Terry did not lose his fight. Perhaps he finished all he had to do. Terry is like a meteor passing in the sky, one whose light travels beyond our view, yet still shines in the darkest night.”―Four Seasons' President, Isadore Sharp There are people, places and events...
Perhaps you remember listening to Styx's Pieces Of Eight album, scratching your head at "Aku-Aku", the mellow instrumental at the end of the album, and writing it off as filler. But I posit that young Robin Guthrie took it as divine inspiration, forming the basis of his guitar and composition style...
....ahhh, whatever. I loved this show as a kid. Still do. :) Anyone say "box set"? It's a barbarian with a lightsaber for God sake! What's not to love. <sigh> Saturday morning cartoons, you are missed. (But that's another post.)
After a long hiatus, the Reverend MiamiShyner has returned to her flock to once again spread the message of ROCO Fridays. <cue music> Let us reacquaint ourselves, shall we? Please turn in your hymnals to page 305 for responsive reading. Rev: And as your boss sayeth unto you, "Can you stay late...
Only for the most discerning of listeners: Wire's Drill. Are you level? How's your trim? Do you rotate, eddy, or spin? Are you game? What's your trick? Do you vibrate, bounce, or tick? What's your cut? Are you correct? Do you detour, bend, or stretch? We're milling through the grinder, grinding...
Is the Former Ghosts song "Mother" a shameless ripoff of New Order's "Leave Me Alone", an homage, or sheer coincidence? You be the judge (scroll way down for New Order, Vox has a real problem sizing widgets): And is it also a coincidence that Former Ghosts named their album Fleurs?
What better song for a dreary First of October than "October Already" by melancholy 80s minimal-wave band A Popular History of Signs? "October already and where has it got us?"
He says, "Son can you play me a memory, I'm not really sure how it goes, But it's sad and it's sweet And I knew it complete, When I wore a younger man's clothes" ~~Piano Man, by Billy Joel The Next Mozart? 6-Year Old Piano Prodigy Wows All - [Video] Nathan Brake - We Are The Champions - Australian...
The 80s, the 90s, today; some things never change. Like how fun dating can be. Umm..yeah, right. I'm just glad that mustaches went out of style with the mullet. Thanks to Dating LA for posting this.
Jeff didn't think "Painted Moon" by the Silencers was good enough to include in his Fingerprintz post (the Silencers being essentially the second incarnation of Fingerprintz), but I think it's a great song, with one of those soaring choruses full of optimism and free of triteness that is all too...
Now that I've got tuned percussion in 80s music on the brain, I keep thinking of more examples, such as "Love My Way" by the Psychedelic Furs and "Change" by Tears For Fears. I was beginning to think it was just a UK thing, but then I remembered "Gone Daddy Gone" by the Violent Femmes. So here is a...
Somehow it entered my mind this evening that the pre-chorus marimba ostinato in Japan's "Methods of Dance" sounds a lot like the background ostinato in Peter Gabriel's "No Self Control", then I started thinking about tuned percussion (marimba, xylophone, balafon, vibraphone, or their synthesized...
I could write about the just-deceased Jim Carroll, or the Beatles remasters, or New Model Army's imminent US tour, but I won't, because tonight I want to present one of my favorite musical novelty groups, The Promenaders. Their sole album was recorded as a busking session on Brighton Beach in 1981...
It occurred to me today that "I'm So Glad" by Cream and "I'm Unsatisfied" by the Godfathers sum up the entirety of rock and roll; everything else is just mixtures and variations of those two themes.
Here are some news from news.weheartmusic.com for this week. BICYCLE DIARIES davidbyrne.com ♥ penguingroup.com While fans will know David Byrne from his music from Talking Heads in the 80s and his solo work, people rarely know that Byrne is a huge bicycle enthusiast. Byrne's bicycle is his main...
Hey everyone...we're LectroLips. We've just signed up to VOX and thought we'd share one of our tracks here - Superstar (What's Your Name). We're looking forward to listening to some of the other unsigned music in the group.
Superstar (What's Your Name) recently won on BBC Radio Berkshire's 'demo session' panel. The judges on the show thought it sounded like a 'hit'! It's a fun track with some cheeky lyrics...
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