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White Label Wednesday: Bryan Ferry, “Kiss and Tell”
You don’t get much more ‘right place, right time’ than Bryan Ferry and his sole Top 40 entry, “Kiss and Tell.” Despite his superstar status in his native England – 16 Top 40 singles
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Julian Cope, “Eve’s Volcano”
The music industry is quick to tell you how piracy is killing them, and it surely is. What they’re not as vocal about is their tendency to kill themselves. This week’s example of the
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Simple Minds, “Speed Your Love to Me”
Simply put, those “U1” jokes about Simple Minds that Py Korry referred to in his most recent Mix Six installment began here. “Produced by Steve Lillywhite.” For most bands, those four words are akin
Read More »White Label Wednesday: The Rolling Stones, “Too Much Blood”
People are making a big deal out of Fatboy Slim and Soulwax doing remixes of tracks from the Rolling Stones’ back catalog, but this is truly much ado about nothing. The band, after all,
Read More »The Cassingle Vault: Duran Duran, “I Don’t Want Your Love”
Duran Duran, The Comeback: Take One The late ’80s were strange and hostile times for the ‘and then there were three’ incarnation of Duran Duran. Yes, their 1986 album Notorious sold like hotcakes, and
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Robert Palmer, “You Are in My System”
 Or, the very first 12” mix I ever heard and saw with my own eyes. My sister brought it home with her from college one Christmas. I was 14, so the idea of
Read More »White Label Friday: Warren Zevon, “Leave My Monkey Alone”
Los Angeles, September 1987. The director of A&R at Virgin Records rolls out of bed at three in the afternoon, his mind a fog after a three-day bender of booze, hookers and blow. He
Read More »White Label Friday: Go West, “We Close Our Eyes”
No band wants their video legacy to trump their musical legacy, but in the case of Go West, chances are that when one of their songs comes on the radio (figuratively speaking of course,
Read More »White Label Friday: The Firm, “Radioactive”
My club-friendly tendencies are clearly lost on the majority of Popdose’s AOR-loving rock hounds, so let’s shake things up this week by putting Jimmy Page under the remix knife. Truth be told, the album
Read More »White Label Friday: Duran Duran, “Hold Back the Rain”
If you know me, then you know that I loves me some Duran Duran. Even when they make an album as unlistenable as Liberty, Pop Trash or Red Carpet Massacre — you’d be wise
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