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Mojo Flucke
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Semi-obscure guitarist Brewer Phillips died in 1999. His playing was a key element of Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers, the legendary band that launched Alligator Records, one of the…
Scott Malchus
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In the autumn of 1981, the band Journey released the multi-platinum album Escape. At the same time, I began sixth grade, entering my second year in an “advanced study program”…
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…
Dw. Dunphy
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After suffering many years with major ailments, Larry Norman died on Sunday. As a member of People in the late ’60s, he introduced the world to the concept of Christian…
Dw. Dunphy
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Eric Clapton – guitar, vocals Steve Winwood – Hammond organ, guitar, vocals Chris Stainton – keyboards Willie Weeks – bass Ian Thomas – drums I’m convinced that any great concert…
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John C. Hughes
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Ah, Thomas Dolby. No, please don’t instantly yell “SCIENCE!” Yes, he’s primarily pigeonholed as a one-hit wonder, with “She Blinded Me With Science” still getting played nearly daily on ’80s…
Taylor Long
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It’s a damn good thing that Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won an Oscar for their song from the independent picture Once, if only because it means they have something…
Zack Dennis
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There’s a certain art to crafting a great movie trailer that is sort of a scale model of the art of crafting the advertised movie itself. Often a trailer contains…
John C. Hughes
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It’s strange that Flesh & Blood, the most critically reviled Roxy Music LP (Rolling Stone said it was “such a shockingly bad Roxy Music record that it provokes a certain…
Taylor Long
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One of the most astounding things about art, and especially music, is the way a self-centered thought or experience contained in a medium can ignite a chain reaction of independent…
Will Harris
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You remember these guys, right? Okay, maybe you don’t. But I sure do. Not that they’re not a great band, but the reason that it’d be easy enough to forget…
Jon Cummings
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You’d think that slogging through the detritus of the 1960s would be a more delicate maneuver than slinging the shite of the ’50s. You’d be mistaken. The Sixties were the…
Will Harris
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Yeah, yeah, we know what you’re thinking: “The Hooters? Are they even still together?” Well, actually, if you’d asked that question between 1995 and 2001, the answer would’ve been a…
Jeff Giles
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Zapp & Roger – Slow and Easy (1993) We’ve owed Roger Troutman some props since the Chartburn post in which half the panel confessed total ignorance of his work. A…
Jeff Giles
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Paul Heaton – If from Fat Chance (2001) Jurassic 5 – One Of Them from Power in Numbers (2002) Michael McDonald – Where Would I Be Now (live) from Live…
David Medsker
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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…
Scraps
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Hey everybody. Welcome to the seventh week of Name That Tune at Popdose. Let’s get the rules out of the way first: The Rules (subject to modification in future games):…
Jeff Giles
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The man attackin’ this week’s chart needs no introduction. He’s the Grand Poobah of Popdose, the man who makes it all happen (and gets very little sleep while doing so)….
John C. Hughes
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Sometimes a huge single with a overly familiar sample can be both a blessing and a curse. Look at P.M. Dawn or this week’s example, U.K. trio Soho, fronted by…
Mojo Flucke
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Rock really is three chords. Everything else is window dressing or some arranger getting cute. Or Steely Dan — which some people argue is, actually, far from rock. In the…
Scott Malchus
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Growing up in a house filled with the sounds of John Philip Sousa and Henry Fillmore, melody and rhythm came first. As I got older and delved deeper into modern…
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…
J.A. Bartlett
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February 20, 1980, is a Wednesday. At 12:01AM Eastern time, a deadline passes for the Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan, which they had invaded the previous December. They do not….
Zack Dennis
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Most people are familiar with the concept of the alpha male. Aggressive and dominating, he exists in our society as a result of our evolution as primates, when relatively small…
John C. Hughes
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The Danse Society began in 1981 as goths with more than a touch of new romanticism, but after two albums and a fair to middling single (a cover of the…
Jeff Giles
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I love rooting for the underdog. In almost any scenario, whether it’s sports or politics or just plain real life, I root for the little guy. This means I’m frequently…
Will Harris
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Stop laughing, you bastards! A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with David Medsker — my comrade in arms both here and over at Bullz-Eye.com — about Kylie…
Taylor Long
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In sixth grade, I was very good friends with a guy named Gabe. He came into our private school rather late in the game — most of us had been…
Jon Cummings
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I would hope that every music geek had a friend growing up like my friend John — a guy who was just as passionate about music as you were and…