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The Friday Mixtape: 7/9/10 — White Label Madness!

David Medsker July 9, 2010 6

It’s White Label Friday, kids! When I say dance, you best dance, muthafucka! Note: It should be said up front that most of these MP3s were acquired during the Wild West days of Napster,

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White Label Wednesday: Simple Minds, “Speed Your Love to Me”

David Medsker April 16, 2008 11

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

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White Label Wednesday: The Rolling Stones, “Too Much Blood”

David Medsker April 9, 2008 11

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,

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White Label Wednesday: Robert Palmer, “You Are in My System”

David Medsker April 2, 2008 13

  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

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White Label Friday: Warren Zevon, “Leave My Monkey Alone”

David Medsker March 21, 2008 6

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

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White Label Friday: Go West, “We Close Our Eyes”

David Medsker March 14, 2008 13

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,

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White Label Friday: The Firm, “Radioactive”

David Medsker March 7, 2008 11

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

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White Label Friday: Duran Duran, “Hold Back the Rain”

David Medsker February 29, 2008 12

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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White Label Friday: Candy Flip, “Strawberry Fields Forever”

David Medsker February 22, 2008 10

There is just no other way to say it: 1990 was an awful, awful year for music. The first #1 single of the year belonged to a certain no-talent ass clown. The first act

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White Label Friday: Book of Love, “Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes)”

David Medsker February 15, 2008 7

Two weeks ago, Dead Milkmen tried to insult us by saying, “You’ll dance to anything by Book of Love.” Today, we officially respond: Goddamn right we will. It’s hard to believe now, but there

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