Kate Bush’s watershed moment is and always will be 1985’s Hounds of Love, and rightly so, but this week we focus on a song from The Sensual World, the follow-up…
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David Medsker used to be "with it." But then they changed what "it" was. Now what he's "with" isn't "it," and what's "it" seems weird and scary to him. He is available for children's parties.
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Ah, the re-remix. Knives out, everyone. There are two schools of thought on the subject of unearthing a track for a modern-day update. There are those who are turned off…
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Let us take a quick trip back to the land of Cutouts Gone Wild! and unearth a song that was heard by roughly 17 people upon its release in 1989….
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Boing-ga-boing-ga-boing-boing, snap! Now that is a hook, bitches. For a long time, the name Stephen Duffy was nothing more to me than the answer to a trivia question about who…
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Welcome to the latest Popdose column to address our overall lack of self-esteem, Mope Like Me. White Label Wednesday fans, fear not — that column is still alive and well…
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Are you ready to rock?! Wait, no, that”™s not right, let me try that again”¦are you ready for some melodic rock?! The whole reclassification of early “Ëœ80s arena rock as…
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Scout”™s honor, I had no idea this mix even existed until a few months ago, when it popped up on an “Ëœ80s remix message board I frequent. Always a big…
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Let”™s just ask the obvious question: how the hell did this song become a hit? This is not to say that the song is awful so much as it”™s really,…
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I will not pretend to know more about the Screaming Blue Messiahs than I actually do. All I know is that their singer was bald and the people who liked…
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Get ur geek on, fuckers! (Use of “Ëœfuckers!’ at the end of brief opening sentence copyright of Jeff Giles Inc. All rights reserved.) First off, if you’re a fan of…
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The Eagles dogpiling continues. First off, if you haven”™t had a chance, read Scott Malchus”™ great review of Don Felder”™s “Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001).” Good…
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Meet the rarest of beasts: the heavy metal dance mix. After the “disappointing” sales figures for Judas Priest”™s 1984 album Defenders of the Faith (it merely went platinum), CBS Records…
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For many rock acts that made their mark in the “Ëœ70s, 1985 was the year they faced off against what could be called the New Wave Borg. The rules were…
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You don”™t get much more “Ëœright place, right time”™ than Bryan Ferry and his sole Top 40 entry, “Kiss and Tell.” Despite his superstar status in his native England —…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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Á‚ 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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Penelope made its debut at the Toronto Film Festival. The 2006 Toronto Film Festival. Not a good sign that the movie has languished this long without being released. The story…
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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…
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There was one movie that my movie critic peers and I were looking forward to seeing in these dog days of winter, and it was Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry’s…
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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…
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You have to give the makers of Vantage Point credit for one thing: what the movie lacks in plausibility, it makes up for with raw enthusiasm. They think their movie…
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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…
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For a genre that makes its living by cutting up other people’s records, hip-hop artists are notoriously touchy about other people touching theirs. Eric B. and Rakim reportedly hated Coldcut’s…
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In the mid “Ëœ80s, Dead Milkmen were a college radio programmer”™s wet dream. They were smart, snotty, and loud at a time when most bands were polished and pre-recorded. They…