Category: Record reviews
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She may be a dancing queen, but she’s still underage
Gold: Greatest Hits 1993 More ABBA Gold 1996 What? Still Gold? OK, I made that one up ABBA There was a time in the late 1970s when ABBA ruled. Though they captured the #1 spot on the U.S. Top 40 charts only once (with “Dancing Queen”), everything they recorded for…
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The not-so-sweet smell of success
The birthday of our nation is a good time to complain about complainers. I am referring here to “dues songs,” in which musicians who have been made wealthy by their music describe how difficult it is to be successful. And apparently success is very difficult indeed. The ’70s were an…
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The Power-Thru
Sweet Oblivion Screaming Trees 1991 Unemployment has so many advantages that I hardly have time to list them all in. For example, I never got dressed today. I’ve been wearing my pajamas since last Monday. Or maybe the Monday before. For another example, I get to listen to as much…
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I want my…I want my MTV…
MTV went on the air in 1981 and immediately rewrote the musical map. It’s easy to see how round-the-clock music videos made stars of talented people with outlandish personalities, like Michael Jackson and Madonna. I thought it would be more interesting to see what MTV did for a band with…
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