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Popdose Flashback: John Cougar Mellencamp, “Big Daddy”

Mojo Flucke August 3, 2009 4

This week on Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke recalls the beautiful, yet challenging final album by the man known as John Cougar Mellencamp, Big DaddyRead More »

Popdose Flashback: The Cult, “Sonic Temple”

Dw. Dunphy July 27, 2009 5

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 a fledgling production wunderkind

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Popdose Flashback: Peter Gabriel, “Passion”

Jack Feerick July 20, 2009 9

For this week's installment of Popdose Flashback, Jack Feerick takes the reins and leads us through a celebration of Peter Gabriel's PassionRead More »

Popdose Flashback: The B-52′s, “Cosmic Thing”

Bob Cashill July 13, 2009 10

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

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Popdose Flashback: Terence Trent D’Arby, “Neither Fish Nor Flesh”

Mojo Flucke June 22, 2009 16

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

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Popdose Flashback: The Stone Roses, “The Stone Roses”

Mojo Flucke June 8, 2009 14

For this week's Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke talks about Madchester, the Stone Roses' much-loved debut, and one very special denim jacket

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Popdose Flashback: Georgia Satellites, “In the Land of Salvation and Sin”

Jeff Giles June 1, 2009 10

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 did, I wouldn’t let

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Popdose Flashback: Shawn Colvin, “Steady On”

Jon Cummings April 20, 2009 9

Our yearlong flashback to 1989 continues with Jon Cummings' reappraisal of Shawn Colvin's Steady OnRead More »

Popdose Flashback: Jazzy David Foster With a Snappy Beat

Terje Fjelde March 30, 2009 3

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 Foster was my guiding

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Popdose Flashback: Paul McCartney, “Flowers in the Dirt”

Jon Cummings March 19, 2009 22

For much of his solo career, it was Paul McCartney’s peculiar fate to seem perpetually in need of a creative comeback. Chafing against the impossibly high standard he set for himself with his Beatles

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