Run-DMSteve

  • Ask Run-DMSteve asks Run-DMSteve

    Q: What happened to the end of 1986 Week? A: It collided with the weekend. Party! Q: Aren’t you too old to party? A: You’re never too old to party. You might have to party at 12 frames per second instead of 24, but you’re never too old to party.…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • You may ask yourself, how did they get here?

    True Stories Talking Heads 1986 Every album Talking Heads released after Stop Making Sense (1984) was a disappointment. How could it have been otherwise? How do you top or even equal a record like that? Only The Beatles created a pop cultural icon and then came back to create a…

  • 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…