Category: Record reviews
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How to win friends and influence people
Siouxsie & The Banshees Tinderbox 1986 Siouxsie & The Banshees are proof of the power of networking. Susan Dallion was one of a group of early Sex Pistols fans who were inspired to go out and make music too. She changed her name to Siouxsie Sioux, which is impossible to…
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Every generation throws a hero a box of Pop-Tarts
Graceland Paul Simon 1986 I sold all my records. In 2011 I realized that I hadn’t played one since 2005. Did this cause me to drop a record on my turntable? No, because by then all I had left was a turntable. I’d already sold the rest of my stereo components.…
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Objects in mirror are not as close as they appear
Get Close The Pretenders 1986 Pretenders (1980) is the kind of album that runs you over with a cement mixer then shoots you in the head five or six times for insurance. Bracing. Pretenders II (1981) is more of the same at a lesser pitch. Disappointed? Nah – that formula…
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Give me that old time rock ’n’ roll
Rebel Soul Kid Rock 2012 I first encountered Kid Rock when Devil Without a Cause (1998) served up two mega-hits, “Bawitdaba” and “Cowboy,” both of which are totally awesome if you’re a teenager and clueless. I thought of him again in 2004, when my boss at the time and his…
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