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Lost in the ’90s:  Belinda Carlisle

Lost in the ’90s: Belinda Carlisle

John C. Hughes August 14, 2008 7

Naked Eyes, ABC, Belinda Carlisle, and the Human League are currently crisscrossing the country on the Regeneration Tour, an oldies-revival trek that thankfully isn’t entirely mired in nostalgia, since all the bands involved are

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Lost in the ’90s:  Echobelly

Lost in the ’90s: Echobelly

John C. Hughes July 31, 2008 8

Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, Morrissey made quite of a bit of noise in the music press (this is back when he deigned to speak with them) about bands he had a fondness for

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Lost in the ’90s:  MC 900 Ft. Jesus

Lost in the ’90s: MC 900 Ft. Jesus

John C. Hughes July 17, 2008 3

Years before Eminem fantasized about killing his baby mama, another white rapper was crafting hip-hop joints about killing annoying passersby and setting fire to buildings in the dead of night with orgiastic pyromaniac glee.

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Lost in the ’90s:  The Breeders

Lost in the ’90s: The Breeders

John C. Hughes July 3, 2008 3

Here’s one I’ve been saving because … well, I’ve been too lazy to break out the USB turntable. 1994 was a great year for the Breeders. Last Splash had just turned platinum and “Cannonball”

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Lost in the ’90s:  Superdrag

Lost in the ’90s: Superdrag

John C. Hughes June 19, 2008 9

Knoxville, Tennessee combo Superdrag’s 1996 major-label debut, Regretfully Yours, will always remind me of driving. Y’see, I was finishing up college at Cleveland State University, which was about a 40-minute drive from my place

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Lost in the ’90s:  Riverside

Lost in the ’90s: Riverside

John C. Hughes June 5, 2008 9

Since we’ve got the Ocean Blue on the brain, we should probably take a look at the band most commonly associated with them to the point of being an almost slavish imitation. Drawing from

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Lost in the ’90s:  Space

Lost in the ’90s: Space

John C. Hughes May 29, 2008 6

Let’s get this out there up right up front: I love this song. Space’s 1997 single, “Female of the Species” (download), is one of the funnest songs of the ’90s, with its kitschy steel

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Lost in the ’90s: Echo & the Bunnymen

Lost in the ’90s: Echo & the Bunnymen

John C. Hughes May 15, 2008 12

When Ian McCulloch left Echo & the Bunnymen in 1988 for a solo career, no one really expected the rest of the band to carry on without him, much less attempt to replace him.

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Lost in the ’90s:  Monaco

Lost in the ’90s: Monaco

John C. Hughes May 1, 2008 10

Former New Order bassist Peter Hook has a pretty big set of brass balls. When the band decided to take a break after 1993′s Republic, various members did their own thing — singer Bernard

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Lost in the ’90s: Jawbox

Lost in the ’90s: Jawbox

John C. Hughes April 17, 2008 11

Washington D.C.-based art-punk quartet Jawbox earned the ire of indie purists in 1993 when they left Dischord Records for major-label Atlantic in the Great Post-Nirvana Alternative Rock Swoop-Up. It proved to be not that

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