Back in the 1990s, there were these things called non-sequel movies, and the people that made these movies promoted them with youth-marketed soundtrack albums, shiny round objects containing primarily filler…
Greatest Un-Hits
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Brian Boone
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I haven’t seen that much of True Blood, mainly because I am an adult male. Looking past the screaming camp, broad stereotypes, fetishized gore, and staggeringly terrible acting of Anna…
Brian Boone
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Certain musical acts come along that are so original, so different, so forward leaning that their arrival brings irrevocable change to the fabric of pop music…even if chart placements and…
Brian Boone
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Rap shifted out of the gangsta and East Coast/West Coast stuff in about 2000 and into a more rounded world where different styles had a shot at the mainstream. Outkast,…
Brian Boone
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Not that it’s a bad thing at all, but Graham Parker sounds almost exactly like Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, the Jam, and Marshall Crenshaw. Parker had been toiling…
Brian Boone
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“We” is a personal introduction by the Roches, about the Roches, from their first album, The Roches. After saying that they don’t give out their ages or their phone numbers,…
Brian Boone
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Before 2000, OutKast wasn’t known much outside of the rap world, as it was a southern-fried, alien-obsessed duo successfully reconciling gangsta swagga and innovative weirdness. Two breakthrough hits in 2001…
Brian Boone
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Every music movement or sea change has that one person that influenced the thing in the first place, but never quite got to cash in when the people were finally…
Brian Boone
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In the post-Nirvana, post-grunge rock landscape, dominance by a new genre was totally up for grabs. Would it be power pop, a la Matthew Sweet? Lite grunge, or “mallternative”? Britpop? Mallternative…
Brian Boone
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In the spring of 1995, I had a brief but odd obsession with The Brady Bunch Movie. It’s probably because it collided my first pop culture object of whimsy with…
Brian Boone
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In failing to make this a hit song, the Revolting Cocks (or RevCo, if you like) could have done two things better. 1) They should have released this song about…
Brian Boone
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Michael Jackson died in June 2009, and with that, the Michael Jackson Memorial Celebration began, an outpouring of grief not matched in magnitude or lengthiness since Lincoln’s corpse toured the…
Brian Boone
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It used to be that all Madonna songs were hits. It was just the way things were. From 1984 until 1995, she’d had more than 30 consecutive top 40 hits….
Brian Boone
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A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive…
Brian Boone
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This column usually presents semi-obscure or forgotten songs that should have been hits. ”Walking on Thin Ice” is different, because if you’re the kind of person with an obsessive enough…
Brian Boone
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A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive…
Brian Boone
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A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive…
Brian Boone
1 Min Read
A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive…
Brian Boone
1 Min Read
A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive…
Brian Boone
1 Min Read
A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive…
Brian Boone
1 Min Read
Fads are tricky little buggers. At first, you don’t think they’re fads: you think they’re the Next Big Thing. Such was the case around 1992 with socially conscious hip-hop. As…
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