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Here’s Something Else!: Presenting The Beatles, At Long Last … In Concert!
The Beatles, just as their creativity went supernova, quit the road in 1966 — frustrated over the inability of that period’s sound systems to amplify the increasingly complex work spinning around on your turntables
Read More »Here’s Something Else!: More Beatles Songs We’re Not Sick Of Yet
The very ubiquitousness of the Beatles can make for difficult wading when you’re trying to remember what made them great in the first place. Well, the movement you need is tucked away inside the
Read More »The Popdose Podcast: Episode 16
After a three-month hiatus, Jeff, Jason, and Dave are back to rip apart a Billboard Top 10 from 1985. It's the Popdose Podcast, Episode 16: CHART ATTACK! Edition!
Read More »Greatest Un-Hits: Yoko Ono’s “Walking on Thin Ice” (1981)
This column usually presents semi-obscure or forgotten songs that should have been hits. “Walking on Thin Ice” is different, because if you’re the kind of person with an obsessive enough interest in music to
Read More »Here’s Something Else!: Beatles Songs We’re Not Sick of Yet
The very ubiquitousness of the Beatles sometimes makes for difficult wading when you're trying to remember what made them great in the first place. Here are a handful of deeper cuts that we're not
Read More »Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 Albums, Part 12
Part 12: Flaming Pie (1997) This is where we officially get into the Beatles’ modern era. By this point, the Fabs are a band which fully admits to being less cutting edge than they
Read More »Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 Albums, Part 11
Part 11: Help Yourself (1993) I went through more iterations of this album than any other one in this series, but finally think I’ve got it as good as it’s going to get. Some
Read More »Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 Albums Part 10
Part 10: Fab (1989) I’ve been waiting to write this one for a long time. In the late ‘80s, as most of us probably remember, the ‘60s became cool again. Tie dye shirts, stonewashed
Read More »Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 Albums, Part 9
Part 9: Beatles In Space (1985) Before we begin, I’d like to give a special thanks to Dw. Dunphy for his amazing Photoshopped album covers. We saw one last time for Tug of Peace,
Read More »Soul Serenade: Ike & Tina Turner, “Come Together”
In case you missed the sly double entendre in John Lennon's lyrics for "Come Together," Ike & Tina Turner released their own version to drive the point home
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