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Popdose Flashback ’91: Susanna Hoffs, “When You’re a Boy”

Kelly Stitzel February 1, 2011 6

Kelly Stitzel takes a look at Susanna Hoffs's solo debut, which just celebrated its 20th birthday

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Popdose Flashback ’90: Cheap Trick, “Busted”

Michael Fortes June 28, 2010 6

In a very personal Flashback '90, Popdose writer Michael Fortes revisits the lows and highs of Cheap Trick's Busted, song by song

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Anatomy of an Album: Producer Ron Nevison Discusses “Chicago Twenty 1″

Jeff Giles May 28, 2010 33

Nearly 20 years after the album was released, Ron Nevison shares the strange story of how his mixes for Chicago Twenty 1 were replaced -- and why he's still seething

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Soundtrack Saturday Special Edition! Best Original Song, 2000

Kelly Stitzel March 6, 2010 10

Phil Collins and Aimee Mann in a battle to the death! Kelly Stitzel takes us back ten years in her final look at Best Original Song nominees of Oscars past

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Soundtrack Saturday Special Edition! Best Original Song, 1997

Kelly Stitzel February 20, 2010 21

Kelly Stitzel's special Oscar-themed columns continue with a look at 1997's race for the Best Original Song trophy

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CHART ATTACK!: 12/2/89

Jason Hare December 4, 2009 30

Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the final CHART ATTACK! of 2009! In case you haven’t noticed, Popdose has been pretty much taken over by horrible, horrible holiday music, and I’m smack in the

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Popdose Flashback: Michael Bolton, “Soul Provider”

Rob Smith April 13, 2009 7

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

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CHART ATTACK!: 4/11/87

Jason Hare April 10, 2009 49

Hi, everybody! This week’s CHART ATTACK! takes us back a whopping 22 years, and wow, do I feel old, considering I remember hearing just about every single one of these songs on the radio

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Popdose Flashback: Milli Vanilli and the Triumph of Substance

Jon Cummings April 1, 2009 17

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

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Pop Goes the World: Cheap Trick, “All We Need Is a Dream”

David Medsker March 25, 2009 15

The fantasy of owning a time machine is a fun one, isn’t it? Most people would go back and stop Hitler. Patton Oswalt would go to 1983 and kill George Lucas with a shovel.

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