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Album Review: The Fixx, “Beautiful Friction”
The Fixx return with an impressively strong album
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 16
We move on this week to the sixth letter of the alphabet and look at more tunes that hit the Billboard rock charts in the 1980s but failed to cross over into the Hot
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: The Fixx, “Deeper and Deeper”
The most rock-radio acceptable of the new-wave acts (with the possible exception of the Cars and the Police), the Fixx were always unfairly slammed as a producer’s band, the mere playthings of Rupert Hine,
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Rush, “Presto”
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 producer known mostly for
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 31
New baby = less time. Imagine that. I was somehow under the impression that sleepless nights were going to give me plenty of free time to continue to write meaningless drivel in my intros,
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