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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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While Mr. Dunphy’s upcoming Friday Mixtape is one of the most esoteric tributes to All Hallow’s Eve that you will ever see, I chose a more commercial (read: lazier) path…
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This week, David Medsker reaches the third and final disc of the NME’s 40th birthday compilation, featuring covers both ridiculous and sublime.
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How well do you know your album covers? David Medsker is back with another senses-shattering test of your knowledge. It’s time for Game 43 of Cover Me!
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A girl on whom I held a massive crush in high school gave me one of her senior year photos, and on the back she wrote, “I will never hear…
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The Rules: MAXIMUM THREE GUESSES between updates of the list, to give everyone a chance to play. An update of the list is when I post the entire list of…
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David Medsker has returned with the second disc of the NME’s wonderfully strange covers compilation, featuring the biggest artists of the early ’90s paying their respects to some of pop’s greatest hits.
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Think you know a thing or two about album artwork? David Medsker is back with another brain-busting test for you. Game 42 of Cover Me is under way!
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This week in White Label Wednesday, David Medsker flashes back to the summer of 1986 with remixes of tracks by Pet Shop Boys, Level 42, and more.
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The Rules: MAXIMUM THREE GUESSES between updates of the list, to give everyone a chance to play. An update of the list is when I post the entire list of…
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In 1992, to celebrate their 40th birthday, NME enlisted 40 bands to cover Number One hits by other artists, and the results were nothing if not interesting. David Medsker serves up the first of three discs in this week’s Pop Goes the World.
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Lord Jefito and I are still trying to figure out how this posted nearly a month early. My apologies to those of you who already submitted guesses – and early…
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David Medsker is back with another mix of those block rockin’ beats, featuring remixes of tracks by Scritti Politti, Kool Moe Dee, Roxette, and more.
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The Rules: MAXIMUM THREE GUESSES between updates of the list, to give everyone a chance to play. An update of the list is when I post the entire list of…
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That sound you just heard was the hearts of a million power pop fans skipping a beat. There probably isn’t anything that happened to Sugarbomb during their brief tenure with…
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Are you ready to dance? No, seriously — are you ready to dance? Then hit the floor, because David Medsker has pulled some classic white label tracks out of the vault!
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Now with 100% longer clips! Seriously, I made them longer this time. The Rules: MAXIMUM THREE GUESSES between updates of the list, to give everyone a chance to play. An…
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This album and band brings out my innermost old codger (which isn’t nearly as inner as it should be), because it has me telling days-of-yore stories about what music geeks…
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Cover Me has now used over 1,000 album covers! And truth be told, I’m running out. Cover Me will continue, but don’t be surprised if it takes a few…breaks. Below…
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David Medsker takes us back to the waning moments of the ’80s this week, with a look at what happened when a bouncy pop hit from Q, Brother Ray, and (Chaka) Chaka Khan got the remix treatment.
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Ah, it’s good to see all y’all again. Sorry, but last Monday was a travel day after Lolla, so I needed a mental health day. The Rules: MAXIMUM THREE GUESSES…
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It’s time for another week of Pop Goes the World — and a look at what David Medsker calls “the best album Crowded House never made.”
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People like to joke that if the Rolling Stones were to debut today, they would never be popular because they’re not attractive enough. This is not entirely accurate. I can’t…
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How well do you know your album covers? Find out now — David Medsker is back with another brain-busting week of Cover Me.
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Whatever you may think of Frogstomp (1995), the oh-so-timely slice of grunge lite that turned three Australian teenagers into superstars, you might be surprised to discover that Silverchair has evolved…
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Good news, everyone! We’re doing Name That Tune again this week, and for purely silly reasons. See, if you look at the game numbers, you’ll see that Cover Me is…
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David Medsker is kicking up the bass for another beat-heavy installment of White Label Wednesday, and — hey, who let Chico DeBarge in here?
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Feel pretty good about your music knowledge? David Medsker is here to test it with another round of Name That Tune!
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The ’90s were dark times for fans of the punk rockers-turned synth soul popsters Scritti Politti. They — and by ‘they,’ I mean ‘he,’ as in the band’s singer and…
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…