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Lost in the ’80s: Total Coelo
As much as I adore the inherent goofiness that is new wave — the guyliner, the overwrought posing, the one-finger keyboard technique — sometimes I must admit some acts come dangerously close to goofy
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: Garbage, “Subhuman”
John Hughes is lost in the '90s once again...and this time, he's got Shirley Manson sitting bitch in the wayback machine
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: Devo, “That’s Good”
Now, I know what you’re thinking. How can one of Devo’s most famous songs outside of “Whip It” be Lost in the ’80s? How can a song whose video was in heavy rotation back
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: Carly Simon, “Why”
Before singer/songwriter Carly Simon attempted to fully embrace the excess of the ’80s with a misguided stab at New Wave, she released this single in 1982 from the soundtrack of the forgotten flick “Soup
Read More »Lost in the ’70s: Raspberries, “Let’s Pretend”
Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, in the Seventies, it was next to impossible to escape hearing Raspberries almost daily on the radio – not that that was a bad thing. Emerging from the Mistake
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: The Tubes and Olivia Newton-John (?!)
All right, let me stop all you young ‘uns right there — 1980′s Xanadu is not a great movie, a lost treasure, or an overlooked masterpiece of fun. It’s a dreadful film, downright boring
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: Les Rita Mitsouko
French duo Fred Chichin and Catherine Ringer met at a theater production in the late ’70s and an instant musical bond was formed, one that took them from rock to synthpop and back again.
Read More »Lost in the ’90s: Marcy Playground, “Shapeshifter”
When Marcy Playground’s borderline-annoying novelty hit “Sex And Candy” was all over alternative radio in the late ’90s, spending an astounding 15 weeks at #1 on the Modern Rock Chart, I couldn’t think of
Read More »Lost in the ’70s: The Sweet, “Blockbuster”
Eight children, four each from different families, puréed Brady Bunch style in a $250-a-month, four-bedroom apartment in mid-’70s Elyria, Ohio. Inflation squeezed the wallets and coin purses dry, forcing both mother and stepfather to
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: Face To Face, “10-9-8″
Big things were planned for Boston’s Face To Face in 1984. Signed to Epic, the New Wave group was pushed heavily by the label as the next big music sensation. The band was featured
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