Category: Record reviews
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If you break on through to the other side, you’ll have to explain yourself to the neighbors
In our last, very exciting episode, I watched The Doors, listened to The Doors, and was floored. I then set out on a quest to find the Best Debut Albums of the 20th Century By Newcomers Who Aren’t Somebody Stupid Like Foreigner. I restricted the contestants to albums named for the…
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Best Debut Albums of the 20th Century By Newcomers Who Aren’t Somebody Stupid Like Foreigner
I finally watched The Doors, which I meant to see in 1991. (I’ve been busy.) Two hours of Jim Morrison self-destructing is not what I’d call a date movie. I did enjoy the Thanksgiving scene at the home of Morrison and his saintly but scatterbrained girlfriend, which ended with a…
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Don’t put those birds on it
“Pictures of You” The Cure 1989 “Space Age Love Song” A Flock of Seagulls 1982 I coach a chess club at a local school, grades 3-8. My toughest challenges are not explaining how to castle or how the knights move. It’s not the 4th-grade belching contests or the two 5th-grade…
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How I went gaga for Gang of Four
“Barracuda” Heart 1977 “At Home He’s a Tourist” Gang of Four 1979 “Here Come Cowboys” The Psychedelic Furs 1984 (With thanks to Loyal Reader Barb for suggesting this post.) I’m lucky. I’ve usually had someone in my life who could explain music to me. In the early 1980s, that someone…
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For a good time call
“867-5309/Jenny” Tommy Tutone 1982 In 1969, Sheraton Hotels forced television viewers to memorize their new toll-free reservation number. The fact that after 40 years I can still recall their campaign of flashing numerals and insanely cheerful female voices singing Eight-oh-oh. Three-two-five. Three-five, three-five proves that advertising works. And the fact…
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