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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
Read More »When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Ted Nugent, “Cat Scratch Fever”
At least in the mind of the man himself, Cat Scratch Fever is the work of the baddest mofo alive. A dude who will take your little ones crossbow hunting for bison in the
Read More »When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Robbie Robertson, “Robbie Robertson”
Robbie Robertson’s recorded output with his legendary band — that is, The Band — and his solo career would seem like different beasts on the surface. While The Band was known for its exploration
Read More »When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Roger Waters, “Amused to Death”
You probably won’t be surprised when I tell you that this has been the hardest post for me to write since Popdose started. I mean, it’s been a damn month: what’s the holdup? Well,
Read More »When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Rick James, “Street Songs”
When thinking about Rick James nowadays, it seems easy to slip into one of two moods: One is the enjoyment of the way Dave Chappelle satirized his life so humorously, making the phrases “I’m
Read More »When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Mötley Crüe, “Girls, Girls, Girls”
[Note: Tom Werman, the producer discussed in this post, has disputed several elements of the story. To read his response, click here. --Ed.] We’re not too far away from a new resurgence of Mötley
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