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Greatest Un-Hits: Happy End’s “Kaze wo Atsumete” (1971)
An unlikely song hit #1 on the U.S. in 1962: “Sukiyaki” by Kyu Sakamoto. It’s the only song in Japanese to top the charts in America, and that’s especially surprising since it’s not in
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Soul Serenade: Doris Troy, “Just One Look”
Doris Troy may have had only big hit, the 1963 classic "Just One Look," but she had a long and successful career working with the biggest names in rock and roll
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Judging an Album by Its Title
Sometimes, an album has such a great title that you just have to buy it
Read More »Greatest Un-Hits: Class of ’99′s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)” (1998)
Grunge rock came out of the punk tradition, sidestepping the decade and a half of corporate rock that came in between punk’s prime of 1977 and grunge’s rise in 1991. The genre thus traded
Read More »Here’s Something Else!: Everything 1980s, Pink Floyd Edition
Pink Floyd‘s A Momentary Lapse of Reason, alas, was no Dark Side of the Moon. Criticized then as now for being transitional and samey, though, it was far from the worst thing foisted on
Read More »Here’s Something Else!: Alan Parsons Project, Overlooked Prog-Rock Band … or Futuristic Hovercraft?
The What-ing What Project? Never, perhaps, has a figure in rock music been simultaneously so famous and so … anonymous
Read More »Desert Island Discs with Trey Lockerbie
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t a fair question, but
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 38
We may have record amounts of snow and ice across the US but we still turn the heat up with more rock from Robert Plant, Pink Floyd and the Pixies.
Read More »Popdose Roundtable: Singledom, or How I Learned to Stop Recording and Love the Download
The Popdose Staff mulls over the continuing slow-motion fall of the "record album."
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