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Jeff Giles
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Prince – Around The World In A Day from Around the World in a Day (1985)David Lindley & El Rayo-X – Talkin’ To The Wino Too from Very Greasy (1988)Glen…
Scott Malchus
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Each and every time I hear the opening guitar strumming of The Pretenders’ “Back on the Chain Gang”; I am filled with happiness, sorrow, love and regret. Then the acoustic…
Jason Hare
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Hi everybody! Let’s see, in recent weeks we’ve done ’84, ’88 and ’86…so naturally, you know where I’m headed. Let’s take a look at the charts during the week of…
Jeff Giles
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Aldo Nova – Twitch (1985)purchase this album (Amazon) All right, enough screwing around — time to set the controls for the heart of the cutout bin! We’re heading into Aldo…
Jason Hare
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A quick anecdote before we start today: on Saturday, Mike and I did one of our “Acoustic ’80s” gigs. In between songs, we somehow wound up mentioning Little River Band,…
John C. Hughes
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Breaking out the USB turntable and encoding some odds & ends – thought I’d share! “¢ Boomtown Rats – “Drag Me Down (U.S. Version): The Rats were the focus of…
Jeff Giles
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Simple Minds – Sanctify Yourself from The Best Of (2002)Ray Charles – Bye, Bye Love from Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection (1997)Damn Yankees – Dirty Dog from Don’t…
Scott Malchus
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My father wasn’t an easy man to love growing up. I was an emotional kid and I didn’t quite get why he wasn’t overly affectionate with all of his children….
Jason Hare
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Howdy, and welcome back to another Friday edition of CHART ATTACK! The week we’re attacking this time ’round is a bit depressing – 60% ballads, with only one of them…
Jeff Giles
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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…
John C. Hughes
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Straight outta Austria, Falco (aka Johann “Hans” HÁƒ¶lzel) is best known on these shores for “Rock Me Amadeus”, one of the more deranged hits in a decade filled with strange…
Jason Hare
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Welcome back to another week here at Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold, where I have the inexplicable need to mention the name of the series at the beginning…
Jeff Giles
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The Doobie Brothers – Wheels Of Fortune from Takin’ It to the Streets (1976)Squirrel Nut Zippers – Memphis Exorcism from Hot (1996)Adam Ant – Ants Invasion from Kings of the…
John C. Hughes
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…to this… Sometimes the easiest ones are the best.
Jason Hare
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Oh, 1984. I can’t stay away from you for very long. I love you too much. And you looked pretty good this week – June 9, 1984, to be exact!…
Jeff Giles
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Duane Dolieslager – The Opposite of Optimist (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby) As eagle-eyed readers of this space may have noted, starting some weeks ago, I began running record reviews…
Jeff Giles
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Bonham – The Disregard of Timekeeping (1989)purchase this album (Amazon) Given the three lousy comments that last week’s Cutouts Gone Wild! on Tall Stories got, I’m going to assume we…
John C. Hughes
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Chris & Cosey’s single about two cheating lovers on the sly was a pleasant pop surprise/sellout considering their prior musical pedigree as members of the early industrial combo Throbbing Gristle….
Jeff Giles
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Justin Branam – Words Worth Mentioning (2006) purchase this album (CD Baby) It’s February 1996, and I’ve got the hots for this girl who happens to be a big Jars…
Jason Hare
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Hang on to your precious lil’ mining hats, my mellow friends: today we’re going deep, deep into the mines. How deep? Deep enough that the song we’re covering never came…
Jeff Giles
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Schoolhouse Rock – Do the Circulation from Schoolhouse Rock (1996)The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – It’s All Over Now (with Dr. John) from Voodoo (1987)Randy Newman – Shame from Bad…
John C. Hughes
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There’s a memorable quote from the famously awful movie Showgirls where choreographer (I think? The movie never explains what it is he does) Marty Jacobsen describes our heroine’s dancing talent:…
Jason Hare
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Happy Friday, everybody! It’s time for another fun-filled edition of CHART ATTACK!, this time from one of those weeks where I heard every one of these songs on the radio…
Scott Malchus
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With the Great Strides walk this weekend, the idea of writing about one of my basement songs almost became overwhelming. For some unknown reason I place a burden on myself…
Jeff Giles
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Tall Stories – Tall Stories (1991)purchase this album (Amazon) I should have done this post months ago, when it was announced that Steve Augeri was leaving Journey and being replaced…
John C. Hughes
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Robert GÁƒ¶rl may be remembered by some as the drummer/keyboardist for German industrial band DAF (short for Deutsch-Amerikanische Fruendschaft or German/American Friendship), but more people may remember him as an…
Jeff Giles
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Will Harrison – A Place Called Home (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby) “Send my love to Carolina / ‘Cause in my mind, that’s where I’ll be,” sings Will Harrison on…
Jason Hare
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Welcome back to another week of Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold! Before I get started – anybody see The Simpsons a couple of weeks ago, where Homer becomes…