Being the total music geek that I am, I can tell you the first CD I ever bought. Well, make that the first two CDs I ever bought, since they…
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John C. Hughes began his Lost in the ’80s blog in 2005 and is now proud to be a member of the Popdose family, where he’s introduced LIT80s’s companions, the obviously named Lost in the ’70s and Lost in the ’90s, alongside the slightly more originally named Why You Should Like…
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Halloween’s around the corner, so for the next two weeks, we’ll focus on some seasonally themed Lost in the 80’s tunes. As SCTV’s Count Floyd would say, “Scary stuff, kids!”…
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Just popping to share this, from E! Online… NEWS FROM PORT CHARLES: Singer-actor Rick Springfield reprising his role as Dr. Noah Drake on ABC’s General Hospital starting December 2. Wowza….
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Here’s a first – a pre-emptive Lost in the ’80s post to make up for a set of reissues that, while nice, will be missing something… November 15th will see…
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I’m not scared — I’ll come right out and say it. Rick Springfield is one of power pop’s unsung heroes and should be held up right next to your Eric…
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Miss me? Sorry about that. Work took me out of the loop for a good two weeks, but I’m back now and rarin’ to go with a bunch of posts….
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Like many a budding homo, I was quite the little fashion plate in high school. Yes, that’s me with the grey pleather pants, white nylon vest, white leather skinny tie…
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Joe Strummer was not a very popular guy when 1986 rolled around. The year previous, he, alongside a new crew of imposters, had taken a nice healthy dump all over…
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“Contentious” is probably the word I’m looking for to describe the recording of the third (and at the time — har har — final) album from The Time. While “Ice…
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Kissing the Pink. Yes, that’s totally what it means. Ahem. Now that we’ve dispensed with all that, Kissing the Pink formed in 1980 in London and never really broke through…
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In a nice bit of blog synergy, it seems everyone is talking about blue-eyed soul”¦which leads me to one of the sadder stories of the also-rans (at least in the…
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Talk about DIY — when club promoter and all-around Paris-Hilton-famous-for-merely-being-famous trailblazer Steven Strange didn’t like that there weren’t enough good songs to play on his club night, he grabbed some…
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Pete Wylie – “Sinful” It’s sinfulIt’s tragicIt’s sinfulIt’s tragic Hey Joe! I got the news tonightwell, should I laugh or should I cry or should I stay and fight?It’s sinful,…
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The music business can be cruel and unforgiving — clichéd, sure, but as I found out years ago, very true. In 1985, William “Boogie Knight” Stroman was in the Top…
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Newcleus had been bouncing around the early hip-hop/breakdancing scene since 1977 when they were part of a DJ crew calling itself Jam On Productions, but it wasn’t until 1983 and…
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Let’s dive right in, shall we? First, I have an e-mail from a very reliable source (try Pete Byrne, the co-founder and lead singer!) that Naked Eyes are touring the…
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1986…small town Ohio Elyria West High School’s Senior Prom! A date with my “best girlfriend” (uh huh)! And the song that reminds me most of this occassion? “Say you, Say…
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Watch the video for The Jacksons’ “Torture”. “Torture” peaked at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984.
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You got your Chaka Khan in my Scritti Politti! Well, you got your Scritti Politti in my Chaka Khan! Mmmm”¦hey! This is pretty good! Chaka Khan was cooling off in…
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While MTV has launched many a career, it could be argued that Julie Brown (the white one, as she called herself) was the network’s first home-grown superstar. By the time…
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Cut from the Loverboy mold of rocking gently and non-offensively (which sounds like an insult, I realize, but isn’t really), Niagra Falls, Canada’s Honeymoon Suite (get it? GET IT?!?) got…
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Goofy lyrics? Overwrought production? Histrionic vocals? Undeniable hooks? Yes, we’re talkin’ Jim Steinman today, kids. Would you really be surprised if I told you the writer/producer of such irresistibly schlocky…
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Another band Melbourne from punk’s ashes, Hunters & Collectors began life in 1981 as a raucous, horn-fueled live act, feeding off audience participation and feel more than songwriting. Over the…
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You know what the world needed more than anything in 1987? A group of white Australians trying to recreate the funk rock that was The Time! Missing Morris Day? Don’t…
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All this week, Lost in the “Ëœ80s takes a look at bands who were part of the early-to-mid “Ëœ80s Australian invasion led by groups such as INXS, Midnight Oil, and…
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Happy birthday to me. I’m this many today! UPDATE:It’s amazing what you find when you look…just days after posting a request for Q Lazzarus and thinking it was back in…
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Ah, Charlie Dore’s ode to calling the DJ request line. Every “Ëœ80s child has been there, hanging on the phone, waiting for that busy signal to stop, finally getting it…
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Turn on any local “Hits of the “Ëœ80s, “Ëœ90s and Today!” radio station, and within an hour, I guarantee you will hear either of Naked Eyes’ big hits, “Promises, Promises”…
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The final part of my Rock & Roll Jeopardy experience has been posted over at my other blog, Johnny Is a Man. If you haven’t been reading it, you can…
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Another Lost in the “Ëœ80s oddity”¦there’s not much biographical info or background floating around about The Other Ones, a Scandinavian-ish group who put out a single, self-titled album in 1987,…