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Lost in the ’80s: Total Coelo
As much as I adore the inherent goofiness that is new wave — the guyliner, the overwrought posing, the one-finger keyboard technique — sometimes I must admit some acts come dangerously close to goofy
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: Garbage, “Subhuman”
John Hughes is lost in the '90s once again...and this time, he's got Shirley Manson sitting bitch in the wayback machine
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: Devo, “That’s Good”
Now, I know what you’re thinking. How can one of Devo’s most famous songs outside of “Whip It” be Lost in the ’80s? How can a song whose video was in heavy rotation back
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: Carly Simon, “Why”
Before singer/songwriter Carly Simon attempted to fully embrace the excess of the ’80s with a misguided stab at New Wave, she released this single in 1982 from the soundtrack of the forgotten flick “Soup
Read More »Lost in the ’70s: Raspberries, “Let’s Pretend”
Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, in the Seventies, it was next to impossible to escape hearing Raspberries almost daily on the radio – not that that was a bad thing. Emerging from the Mistake
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: The Tubes and Olivia Newton-John (?!)
All right, let me stop all you young ‘uns right there — 1980′s Xanadu is not a great movie, a lost treasure, or an overlooked masterpiece of fun. It’s a dreadful film, downright boring
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: Les Rita Mitsouko
French duo Fred Chichin and Catherine Ringer met at a theater production in the late ’70s and an instant musical bond was formed, one that took them from rock to synthpop and back again.
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: Marcy Playground, “Shapeshifter”
When Marcy Playground’s borderline-annoying novelty hit “Sex And Candy” was all over alternative radio in the late ’90s, spending an astounding 15 weeks at #1 on the Modern Rock Chart, I couldn’t think of
Read More »Lost in the ’70s: The Sweet, “Blockbuster”
Eight children, four each from different families, puréed Brady Bunch style in a $250-a-month, four-bedroom apartment in mid-’70s Elyria, Ohio. Inflation squeezed the wallets and coin purses dry, forcing both mother and stepfather to
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