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Popdose Lost Classics: Jeff Giles, “Hot Nights/Cool Sounds” (2002)
Our first installment of the new Popdose Lost Classics series is an album from earlier this decade by none other than our own Popmeister, Jeff Giles! What was supposed to be a breakthrough major-label
Read More »Redeeming Rod: The Faces Reunion
As you may have heard by now, Rod Stewart confirmed last week that all the surviving members of his old band, the Faces (including current Rolling Stone Ron Wood and former Who drummer Kenny
Read More »Spooky Songs: Two from Todd Rundgren
To me, Todd Rundgren’s 1972 Something/Anything? is kind of the white Sign ‘O’ the Times. Like Prince’s masterwork, Rundgren’s is a sprawling, two disc, self-contained epic, bouncing from style to style and voice to
Read More »Spooky Songs: The Rolling Stones, “Beggars Banquet”
Last week I talked about the Beatles’ 1968 masterpiece, The White Album; this week, I’m talking about the Rolling Stones’ masterpiece from the same year, Beggars Banquet. A good deal of credit for the
Read More »Spooky Songs: The Beatles, “Long, Long, Long”
1968′s The Beatles, aka “The White Album,” is the Beatles at their most frightening: the sound of drugs, of implosion, of tension and competition. Added to that are the numerous songs which present the
Read More »Spooky Songs: Gordon Lightfoot, “If You Could Read My Mind”
I don’t think any other song scared me more as a child than “If You Could Read My Mind,” the moody ballad that became Gordon Lightfoot’s first self-sung hit in the United States (peaking
Read More »Spooky Songs: The Shangri-Las
With summer moving towards fall, and the greatest and creepiest holiday of the year now less than two months away, I thought I’d take a break from flogging the careers of bastards, and move
Read More »When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Prince, “Batman”
Normally, this series takes on an artist who’s a bad person and whose “badness” has tempered his or her ability to make quality albums with consistency — in other words, those who have more
Read More »When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Glenn Danzig, “Danzig II: Lucifuge”
Many artists put on emotional masks, and there are a multiplicity of reasons they do so. Some simply wish to distance the “real them” from the audience, in order to allow some semblance of
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