This week on Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke recalls the beautiful, yet challenging final album by the man known as John Cougar Mellencamp, Big Daddy.
Popdose Flashback ’89
13 Articles
Dw. Dunphy
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Things should have been going swimmingly for The Cult. Their album Electric had succeeded in becoming the biker-rock record they hoped it would be – raw, straight-ahead and helmed by…
Jack Feerick
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For this week’s installment of Popdose Flashback, Jack Feerick takes the reins and leads us through a celebration of Peter Gabriel’s Passion.
Bob Cashill
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For this week’s Popdose Flashback, Bob Cashill reminisces about the B-52s’ Cosmic Thing — and a certain very, very friendly young lady in Thailand.
Mojo Flucke
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A couple years after 12 million buyers signed their name across his heart, Terence Trent D’Arby got sophomore jinxed but good — and in this week’s edition of Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke makes a case for Neither Fish Nor Flesh.
Mojo Flucke
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For this week’s Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke talks about Madchester, the Stone Roses’ much-loved debut, and one very special denim jacket.
Jeff Giles
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It’s been forever and a day since I felt like this I want a fifth of Wild Turkey and one little kiss And I don’t miss that girl; if I…
Jon Cummings
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Our yearlong flashback to 1989 continues with Jon Cummings’ reappraisal of Shawn Colvin’s Steady On.
Terje Fjelde
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I was a pretty confused kid in 1989. Well, not a kid, really — I was 17 going on 18. I had a couple of hundred vinyl records, and David…
Jon Cummings
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For much of his solo career, it was Paul McCartneyÁ¢€â„¢s peculiar fate to seem perpetually in need of a creative comeback. Chafing against the impossibly high standard he set for…
Ed Murray
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Pixies – Doolittle (1989, 4AD) purchase this album (Amazon) To a certain extent, Doolittle Á¢€” the PixiesÁ¢€â„¢ most accessible (and best-selling) album Á¢€” is all about tension. The tension of…
Mike Heyliger
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When Licensed to Ill shocked everyone by becoming the biggest-selling rap album of all time (until MC Hammer snatched the title a couple years later), no one expected the Beastie…
Dw. Dunphy
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It wasn’t their best album. It wasn’t even much like what people consider their best album. Yet the mighty Canadian power trio Rush found themselves on Atlantic Records with a…
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