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White Label Wednesday: Tasmin Archer, “Sleeping Satellite”
In late 2007, I attempted to launch a weekly mp3 column on Eat Sleep Drink Music, the music blog of my employers at Bullz-Eye. However, the column was killed almost as soon as it
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Animotion, “Obsession”
Rockwell once said he felt like somebody was watching him. Odds are, it was Animotion. Have you taken a close look at the lyrics to “Obsession” lately? This gives “Every Breath You Take” and
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Vitamin Z, “Burning Flame”
The funny thing about music in 1985: they would make an extended mix of anything. Even funnier, people would dance to it. Take this week’s subject, the UK band Vitamin Z – pronounced Veetamin
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Daryl Hall & John Oates, “Your Imagination”
It’s quite possible that this song is the “Sliding Doors” moment that put me on the musical path that I would ultimately follow. This is strange, when you consider that “Your Imagination” is the
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Boogie Box High, “Jive Talkin’”
Sometimes, it’s not whom you know, but whom you call family. The interwebs are not very forthcoming about the origins and chart history of Boogie Box High, the nom de guerre of one Andros
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Underworld, “Underneath the Radar”
Or, White Label Wednesday, Before They Were Stars Edition Underworld would like you believe that they were immaculately conceived in 1994 as the spooky techno band that “debuted” with dubnobasswithmyheadman, with no past or,
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Cliff Richard, “We Don’t Talk Anymore”
Everyone seemed to have so much fun jumping into the wayback machine with Nicolette Larson – and really, who wouldn’t want to jump into a wayback machine with Nicolette Larson? – that I thought
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Nicolette Larson, “Lotta Love”
I’ve never been a big fan of Neil Young — I’ll just say it, it’s that pinched voice of his — but I will admit to liking several of his songs once they were
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Edelweiss, “Bring Me Edelweiss”
“Awwwww, yeah! I see a real woman, I need to grab her, she busts out yodelin’…” There is just no better way to open a song than that. In 1988, after hitting #1 with
Read More »White Label Wednesday: The Future Sound of London, “Papua New Guinea”
Imagine my surprise when I visited my then-girlfriend – anyone who read my Valentine’s Day piece knows her well – over Christmas break in 1992, and in her car was the soundtrack for Cool
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