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A Note From Producer Tom Werman
[Note: Back in April, as part of Matthew Bolin's ongoing series, When Good Albums Happen to Bad People, Popdose ran a post that focused on Mötley Crüe's Girls, Girls, Girls. In this post, a
Read More »Spooky Songs: Two from Todd Rundgren
To me, Todd Rundgren’s 1972 Something/Anything? is kind of the white Sign ‘O’ the Times. Like Prince’s masterwork, Rundgren’s is a sprawling, two disc, self-contained epic, bouncing from style to style and voice to
Read More »Spooky Songs: The Rolling Stones, “Beggars Banquet”
Last week I talked about the Beatles’ 1968 masterpiece, The White Album; this week, I’m talking about the Rolling Stones’ masterpiece from the same year, Beggars Banquet. A good deal of credit for the
Read More »Spooky Songs: The Beatles, “Long, Long, Long”
1968′s The Beatles, aka “The White Album,” is the Beatles at their most frightening: the sound of drugs, of implosion, of tension and competition. Added to that are the numerous songs which present the
Read More »Spooky Songs: Gordon Lightfoot, “If You Could Read My Mind”
I don’t think any other song scared me more as a child than “If You Could Read My Mind,” the moody ballad that became Gordon Lightfoot’s first self-sung hit in the United States (peaking
Read More »Spooky Songs: The Shangri-Las
With summer moving towards fall, and the greatest and creepiest holiday of the year now less than two months away, I thought I’d take a break from flogging the careers of bastards, and move
Read More »CHART ATTACK!: 8/11/73
This week’s chart is being covered by Popdose’s own Matthew Bolin. Boy, it seems like only yesterday he was giving Popdose readers too many Wham! songs or a reason to love Rod Stewart again.
Read More »When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Roger Waters, “Amused to Death”
You probably won’t be surprised when I tell you that this has been the hardest post for me to write since Popdose started. I mean, it’s been a damn month: what’s the holdup? Well,
Read More »When Good Albums Happen to Bad People: Rick James, “Street Songs”
When thinking about Rick James nowadays, it seems easy to slip into one of two moods: One is the enjoyment of the way Dave Chappelle satirized his life so humorously, making the phrases “I’m
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