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Popdose Flashback ’91: Squeeze, “Play”
This album, for all intents and purposes, saved my life.Here's the back story: I had just graduated from college in the
Greatest Un-Hits: The Posies’ “Going, Going Gone” (1994)
Back in the 1990s, there were these things called non-sequel movies, and the people that made these movies promoted them with youth-marketed soundtrack albums, shiny round objects containing primarily filler and unused album cuts
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 48
The sun shines down on rock music this week with a heaping of Squeeze, Squier and a concert's worth of Springsteen tunes.
Read More »Five for 1-1-11
WAKEY WAKEY!! It’s almost noon (eastern standard time), the streamers streamed, the fireworks worked (with fire!), and the punch is, egad, still punching. Here then is an impromptu mini-mixtape to commiserate with you. Liberties
Read More »The Weekly Mixtape: 12/24/10 (Medskermas)
Merry Christmas, Popdose Nation. God knows you’ve earned this. AC/DC – Mistress For Christmas Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas (12 inch mix) The Bird and the Bee – A Christmas Compromise
Read More »Mix Six: “The Re-Record”
The Popdose Staff had a guiding hand in shaping this week's Mix Six -- with some great suggestions of songs that have been re-recorded by the artists who created them.
Read More »The Getting-to-Know-You Megamix
Love stinks. Trying to get to love stinks more. Here’s the deal: there’s a woman I’ve been interested in. I only cross her path every other weekend, but she’s always been sweet and kind
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 83
It’s another week of artists whose names begin with the letter S, as we take a look at the ass end of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, i.e. songs that charted below #40, during
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 8/14/09
Read that headline and weep, folks. In just two more weeks, the summer of ’09 will be finito. Yeah, I know technically summer has a few more weeks of life but, who are we
Read More »Beyond Ubiquitous: The Popdose Guide to Syd Straw
For someone who can talk your ear off, Syd Straw certainly has built an enigmatic career. After establishing her bona fides as an arty modern-rock diva during the mid-’80s, as part of the Golden
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