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Popdose Flashback: Tom Petty, “Full Moon Fever”
This week in Popdose Flashback, Scott Malchus takes us back to the birth of Tom Petty's first solo flight. Twenty years later, he still has Full Moon Fever -- do you
Read More »Popdose Flashback, or When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Don Henley, “The End of the Innocence”
This week's Popdose Flashback doubles as the return of a much-missed series -- Matthew Bolin's When Good Albums Happen to Bad People -- and offers begrudging respect for the best solo release from notorious
Read More »Popdose Flashback: “Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814″
If it's Monday, that must mean it's time to go back to 1989 -- and for this week's Popdose Flashback, Mike Heyliger looks at Janet Jackson's multimegaplatinum opus Rhythm Nation 1814Read More »
Popdose Flashback: Kirsty MacColl, “Kite”
In this week's installment of Popdose Flashback, Jack Feerick reminds us why no home should be without a copy of Kirsty MacColl's KiteRead More »
Popdose Flashback: Shawn Colvin, “Steady On”
Our yearlong flashback to 1989 continues with Jon Cummings' reappraisal of Shawn Colvin's Steady OnRead More »
Popdose Flashback: Michael Bolton, “Soul Provider”
In Bull Durham, Kevin Costner’s character Crash Davis chides Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) for his laziness and lack of focus on the game of baseball. “You got a gift,” he says. “When you were
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Tears for Fears, “The Seeds of Love”
It still seems strange that Tears for Fears, two Janov-loving introverts from Bath, were one of the biggest bands of the ’80s. In a decade defined by excess (Motley Crue, Guns ‘n Roses), sex
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Milli Vanilli and the Triumph of Substance
For fans of pop music with integrity, the pop charts of 1989 were a desolate place. Between an avalanche of soul-sapping covers (Michael Damian, Michael Bolton, Martika), the blatant New Edition ripoff that was
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Jazzy David Foster With a Snappy Beat
I was a pretty confused kid in 1989. Well, not a kid, really — I was 17 going on 18. I had a couple of hundred vinyl records, and David Foster was my guiding
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Elvis Costello, “Spike”
1989 found Elvis Costello in the throes of a full-on identity crisis. He had always been more than what the general perception gave him credit for; some of his earliest recordings were actually of
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