And so, like Boyz II Men, we have reached the end of the Cutouts Gone Wild! road. This series started out innocently, with a few ridiculous paragraphs about St. Paul’s…
Cutouts Gone Wild!
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Jeff Giles
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Jimmy Harnen – Can’t Fight the Midnight (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) That’s right, cutout lovers! It’s Jimmy Harnen! Why do you all have that look on your faces? What,…
Jeff Giles
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Rick Astley – Hold Me in Your Arms (1988) purchase this album (Amazon) Well, do you remember Rick Astley? He had a big, fat hit — it was ghastly He…
Jeff Giles
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The Grays – Ro Sham Bo (1994) purchase this album (Amazon) You’ve known this was coming since last week, when I promised an album from the great lost power-pop group…
Jeff Giles
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Nu Shooz – Told U So (1988) purchase this album (Amazon) Yes, yes, I know. Some of you were hoping for Boy Meets Girl — but as far as I…
Jeff Giles
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Ladies and gentlemen, meet Robbie Nevil’s undescended testicle. Never heard of Judson Spence? Congratulations — you’ve been spared (until now) the horror of listening to the album I’m convinced was…
Jeff Giles
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Julian Lennon – The Secret Value of Daydreaming (1986) purchase this album (Amazon) “The son of John Lennon and his first wife Cynthia, Julian Lennon parlayed a remarkable vocal similarity…
Jeff Giles
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Big Noise – Bang! (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) If you’re a music fan with the good fortune to have been born before the late ’80s, chances are you remember…
Jeff Giles
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Katrina & the Waves – Waves (1986) purchase this album (Amazon) Last week, we looked at poor Gregory Abbott’s second album, and the way R&B stardom can evaporate in the…
Jeff Giles
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Gregory Abbott – I’ll Prove It to You (1988) purchase this album (Amazon) Hello, ladies. Are you ready to be shaken down? Don’t get excited — this album does not…
Jeff Giles
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Living in a Box – Gatecrashing (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) All right, show of hands — how many of you have ever wondered what an album of Rick Astley…
Jeff Giles
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Dan Hill – Real Love (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) Mmmmm. Can you smell that? Nothing says “cutout” like “a Dan Hill album from 1989,” does it? It’s almost like…
Jeff Giles
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Various Artists – Largo (1998) purchase this album Before telling you how much I love this album, and how I’ve hung onto it since stumbling across it in a used…
Jeff Giles
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Oran “Juice” Jones – To Be Immortal (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) For the first time since starting this series, I’m not sure if “cutout” is sufficient to describe the…
Jeff Giles
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Susanna Hoffs – When You’re a Boy (1991) purchase this album (Amazon) As longtime readers of this space are no doubt aware, I have a severe weakness for Susanna Hoffs,…
Jeff Giles
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Various Artists – Dragnet Original Soundtrack (1987) purchase this album (Amazon) You know, writing about cutouts in the digital age is more difficult than it looks. Not a week goes…
Jeff Giles
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New Monkees – New Monkees (1987) purchase this album (Amazon) When all is said and done, the 1980s may not go down as the decade with the highest per-capita quotient…
Jeff Giles
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Howard Jones – In the Running (1992) purchase this album (Amazon) To type these words pains me more deeply than words can say, but it’s altogether likely that many of…
Jeff Giles
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Mr. Mister – I Wear the Face (1983) purchase this album (Amazon) Well, well, well. If it isn’t Mr. Mister. First things first: I have to give credit where it’s…
Jeff Giles
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Chuck Mangione – Love Notes (1982) purchase this album (Amazon) In all the months since Jefitoblog bit the dust, I don’t think a week has gone by that I haven’t…
Jeff Giles
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Cheryl Lynn – Start Over (1987) purchase this album (Amazon) My wife and daughter went out of town a few weeks ago, leaving me alone in the house to do…
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Jeff Giles
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Paul Shaffer – Coast to Coast (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) The following was reproduced, unaltered, from this album’s booklet: Here was the idea: that for one year, every time…
Jeff Giles
3 Min Read
Aretha Franklin – Aretha (1986) purchase this album (Amazon) Often, when researching potential albums for this column Á¢€” yes, I do research; quit laughing, fuckers Á¢€” I’m surprised by what’s…
Jeff Giles
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Pointer Sisters – Hot Together (1986) purchase this album (Amazon) To my generation, the Pointer Sisters were an act that leapt fully formed out of the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack;…
Jeff Giles
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Billy Ocean – Tear Down These Walls (1988) purchase this album (Amazon) Oh, Billy Ocean. How is it we’re just now getting to you? Wait, I know Á¢€” I fucking…
Jeff Giles
4 Min Read
Al Jarreau – Heart’s Horizon (1988)purchase this album (Amazon) First of all, I love Al Jarreau. Let’s start there. And by “I love Al Jarreau” I mean I love his…
Robert Cass
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Note: My brother’s visiting from out of town this week, so I’ve got less time than I normally do for blog-type stuff; fortunately, our friend Robert, of the always entertaining…
Jeff Giles
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Aldo Nova – Twitch (1985)purchase this album (Amazon) All right, enough screwing around Á¢€” time to set the controls for the heart of the cutout bin! We’re heading into Aldo…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
The Greenberry Woods – Rapple Dapple (1994)purchase this album (Amazon) Now this is more like it. It may not seem like it, but this album is the kind of thing…
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