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They Don't Sing 'Em Like They Used To

i just realized today that most sitcoms don't have catchy theme songs. well, i could be wrong since i don't really watch sitcoms nowadays, but i think the last catchy one was "i'll be there for you" by the rembrandts for friends. but come on, i still remember the words to these! (apparently, alan...

Sheffield revisited: Workforce

Of all the 80s Sheffield bands in the Cabaret Voltaire circle, Workforce has gotten short shrift, mainly because they never released an album, just two 12" singles. But what singles they were, full of the Sheffield symbiosis between funk rhythms and electronics, a true marriage of the human and the...

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The Flowerpot Men meet Dr. John

Continuing the perusal of my own vinyl vault, I turned up my Flowerpot Men collection: not the 60s psychedelic band, but the vaguely gothic 80s synthbeat duo of Ben Watkins and Adam Peters. Watkins started out as the singer for new wave band The Hitmen; Peters was a cellist and string arranger,...

Depois do jantar

Lembraram-me desta música Não, não é dos The Cure! Edit E segundo a wikipedia, esta música foi número um do UK chart em 1 de Agosto de 1982! Vai fazer 26 anos amanhã! YEAY!

Blondie - Parallel Lines: 30th Anniversary Edition

07/31/2008 00:49:24 ♥ written by vu ( ) Tour Dates 07/31/08 Storsjoyran Festival Östersund 08/01/08 Storas Festival Trondheim 08/02/08 Rockerfeller Oslo Discography [1976] Blondie [1977] Plastic Letters [1978] Parallel Lines [1979] Eat to the Beat [1980] Autoamerican [1982] The Hunter [1999] No...

JonRolling, VirginiaRolling: the other Astleys

With all this Rick Astley netmania, I thought I'd shine a light on two of the lesser-known Astleys of the 80s. Jon Astley released the single "Jane's Getting Serious" in 1987, from his album Everyone Loves the Pilot (Except the Crew), in a synth-laden musical style I like to think of as Gary Numan...

80's phase again

Unashamedly a trend follower, I set it in my heart to get the latest sunnies fad, wayfarers. Originally from Ray-Ban, wayfarers were designed in 1952 - but were made popular by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. The trend sort of died down during the 70s but in 80s its popularity soared due...

Crate digging: Daniel Ponce

Last week I had the novel idea of digging in my own crates until I found any long-unheard record (most of them) that I wanted to listen to right now, and I picked out Daniel Ponce's 1983 album New York Now. I picked this one up back in the 80s; I recognized Ponce as a percussionist from some Bill...

More Fun with Perler Beads - Rubix Cube Box

More fun with Perler Beads indeed! I've created a brand new item that I have listed in my Etsy Shop this afternoon - this Rubix Cube Keepsake Box! I modeled this box after the Mario Question Mark block ones that I've been creating for the past while. It measures approximately 3" across each side and...

I forgot all about The Jack Rubies. Tsk, tsk, tsk...

I am opposed to ads on anything, especially stuff that's 20 years old and wasn't even that popular then and certainly isn't any more popular now... but I'll take what I can get because stuff from the Jack Rubies is so rare.

Well, the girls are frisky in old 'Frisco

I have always loved the song, CALIFORNIA SUN. Yes, even as sung by Frankie & Annette in my childhood, but no version tops the Ramones.

I Spy for the FBI

In the midst of my Bill Murray spy-movie high I dug out one of my old favorite spy songs, "I Spy for the FBI." I first heard it sung by John Hiatt on his album Two-Bit Monsters, but I can't find that version. The second one I heard was a radical reworking by the early-80s British postpunk-swing band...

Pat Benatar: Ultimate Collection

07/18/2008 08:26:26 ♥ written by vu ( ) Tour Dates 07/18/08 Chicago, IL House Of Blues 07/19/08 Goshen, IN Elkhart County 4-H Fair 07/21/08 Council Bluffs, IA Harrah's Casino - Stir Concert Cove 07/26/08 Oakville, CA Robert Mondavi Winery 07/27/08 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore 08/01/08 C Mesa, CA...

Vox Hunt: Just One of My Many Favorite Posts...

Please share one of your favorite post created by you. Submitted by Beauty. I have lots of posts I like, but I have a bigger crush on my music library chock full of 80s Britpop-type goodness. To name just a few: Afghan Whigs, Alternative tv, Ballboy, Big Country, Black Grape, the Call, the Catherine...

Times have changed: Vanity 6

I put this song on my iPod recently because it's good in an 80s way. Anyway, I thought about the time period, then thought that there's probably a music video, so I looked it up. There is one. And...it's kind of not that great. It's kind of maybe bad, but I don't know, because it's from 1982 and...

More Slab!

The online resurrection of the great Slab! that I blogged about on April 30 continues in fits and starts; the latest development is that two Slab! videos have just been posted to YouTube by Ikon Video. That means I can plug them in right here! "People Pie" and "Death's Head Soup" were originally...

Obscure covers: the Phenomenauts

Casting about for new music to listen to I came across the Phenomenauts, and the description sounded all right (something like "pop-punk with some synths"), and sure enough, they're pretty fun (and unlike so many pop-punk bands, they don't sound like whiny teenagers). The track list for their album,...

Oh the 80s ((Top Gun Anthem Flashback))

Spacesuits. Fake MiGs. Guitar Heros ((song below to be downloadable soon for Guitar Hero))...