So. When last we left Billy Joel, he was riding high on the back-to-back, world-beating successes of The Stranger and 52nd Street. You’d think that would mellow a guy out…
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How could I have possibly missed this? Captain Video breaks down your favorite and not so favorite videos from the ’80s in hilarious detail.
Okay, this one might sting a bit. The Steve Miller Band was riding high after the huge success of 1982Á¢€â„¢s Á¢€Å“AbracadabraÁ¢€ LP and single Á¢€” the single was just about…
Sam Bisbee – Oxygen (2006)purchase this album Things seem to be heating up for Sam Bisbee, which is a good thing: Music this charmingly square doesn’t often bubble up from…
I wasn’t going to do one of these “year in review” things — they’re a lot of work and nobody ever agrees with you anyway — but when I sat…
Things werenÁ¢€â„¢t really happening for Donna Summer in 1980. The Queen of Disco and the sound she and producer Giorgio Morodor ushered in had fallen out of favor, replaced by…
Hey, hey, it’s Big Star Day here in Bootleg City! Presented for your downloading pleasure: What’s Goin’ Ahn, twenty-three tracks of demos, outtakes, and various other detritus left over from…
Hey, any Buffalo Tom fans out there? I’ve never been the most passionate of fans — and my favorite BT album is Big Red Letter Day, which I imagine most…
Anthony Hamilton – Ain’t Nobody Worryin’ (2005) purchase this album After a long string of nowhere deals and disappointments, Anthony Hamilton has been on a hot streak lately — starting…
Á¢€Å“Secret OktoberÁ¢€, the flip side of DuranÁ¢€â„¢s Á¢€Å“Union of the SnakeÁ¢€ is truly a buried gem, a song that would have considerably brightened the overblown and overly bloated Á¢€Å“Seven and…
[One of the most polarizing features of jefitoblog, I think, is my tendency to give more-or-less equal time to music I hate. Lotsa music blogs are proselytizers for certain artists,…
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)purchase this album The critical consensus I’m hearing seems to point to this as 2005’s Album of the Year….
Various Artists – Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast (2005)purchase this albumVarious Artists – Higher Ground Hurricane Benefit Relief Concert (2005)purchase this album Disaster. Relief album….
Now here’s a band we haven’t discussed yet — Squeeze. Today’s Bootleg City consists of live cuts from 1980 and 1981, the period leading up to and around East Side…
Beckley-Lamm-Wilson – Like A Brother (2000) purchase this album One of the commenters on our look at Dennis Wilson’s Bamboo mentioned Beckley-Lamm-Wilson’s Like A Brother, and it got me to…
The BoDeans – Joe Dirt Car (1995) purchase this album They seemed poised to make the jump on several occasions, but Waukesha’s finest (otherwise known as The BoDeans) never quite…
When last we left Nick Lowe Á¢€” at the end of Part One last week Á¢€” he was mired in a sales slump and battling the bottle. After the commercial…
To many people, they’ve never been more than a hokey novelty act, but I am in no way ashamed to admit that I fell in love with the gritty, deep-fried,…
Radney Foster – See What You Want to See (1999)purchase this album As the bespectacled half of the late-’80s country duo Foster & Lloyd, Radney Foster was the logical choice…
One of Thomas DolbyÁ¢€â„¢s earliest singles (even before THAT song, I believe) was the incredible Á¢€Å“Airwaves,Á¢€ a song I think was tough for him to equal Á¢€” itÁ¢€â„¢s mellow and…
“Rollercoaster” was the b-side of the Bunnymen’s most aggressive stab for a U.S. hit, the immortal “Lips Like Sugar”. While the a-side was an instant alternative classic, the b-side….welllllll… With…
Doesn’t look like the godfather of punk, does he? Well. Maybe not the godfather, but perhaps a kindly uncle. Either way, Nick Lowe’s footprint on punk — hell, on all…
One of the joys of scrounging through sorely neglected vinyl bins in used record shops is stumbling across something that you didnÁ¢€â„¢t even know you were looking for. Such is…
Dennis Wilson – Bamboo Here it is, as promised: Dennis Wilson’s second and final solo album, the unreleased Bamboo. And actually, if you want to get right down to it,…
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham – Moments from This Theater (1999) purchase this album Spring, 1999: I’m at Slim’s, in San Francisco, making a rare visit to the city in…
Tommy Keene – Ten Years After (1996)purchase this album Power pop: It’s a genre close to my heart, and yet one not often discussed here. This is mostly because, as…
Scott Stapp – The Great Divide (2005)purchase this album Fight Song (download)You Will Soar (download)
Okay, IÁ¢€â„¢m a bad music blogger. No update since November?? Awful. IÁ¢€â„¢m here to make up for that today, with not one, not two, but three Lost in the 80s…
Last week’s installment in our Hall & Oates Guide got big love from Stereogum and Entertainment Weekly, among others, forcing me to further question my belief that the blogosphere is…
‘Tis the season for downloading! Even though I don’t really care about Christmas per se, and fully sympathize with the pain Christmas music causes most people, I have a perverse…