Question: You’re the lead singer and lyricist of an up and coming underground synth-based band. You’ve just lost your songwriter and main keyboardist to an ego clash. You’re left with…
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John C. Hughes
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It was tough being one of two Frankie Goes to Hollywood fans in my suburban/rural Ohio hometown in 1985. The popular musical force at Elyria West High School was hair…
John C. Hughes
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Sometimes you go through your old albums and run across one that leaves you scratching your head, wondering “why did I buy this?” This happened to me the other day…
Jeff Giles
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Miss Christina drives a 944 Satisfaction oozes from her pores She keeps rings on her fingers, marble on her floor Cocaine in her dresser, bars on her door She keeps…
Jeff Giles
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Greetings, Videots! Come read about my latest brave excursion into the 1980th dimension–at my new digs!
John C. Hughes
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Once upon a time, Bob Geldof was an asshole, and infinitely more interesting. I’m using the term “asshole” in the most complimentary, and admittedly, inflammatory fashion here. Geldof, alongside the…
Jeff Giles
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from Billboard: Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, at which artists including the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bob Seger recorded classic songs, has closed. The…
John C. Hughes
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Welcome to Lost in the “Ëœ80s. Here’s where you’ll find the other side of all the big hits you remember”¦the failed follow-ups to the one-hit wonders, the album tracks that…
Jeff Giles
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Presented for your edification and reading/listening pleasure: a brief summary of the recorded output of one Mister Bruce Hornsby. He’s popularly known mostly for his earliest singles, and of these…
Jeff Giles
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So I?ve never really liked wine. Well, that isn?t really fair?I mean, I only started drinking anything alcoholic like six years ago?so I guess it?s better to say that my…
Jeff Giles
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Lots of good new music lately, although it’s all decidedly of the ultra-sensitive coffeehouse variety. If this keeps up, soon I will grow breasts and start taking a lot of…
Jeff Giles
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This week’s mp3 collection comes from a band you’ve probably never heard. Or heard of. Or if you’ve done either, it was probably so long ago you’ve forgotten about it….
Jeff Giles
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One of my favorite all-time songwriters is Lowell George, the guitar god who put together Little Feat: Lowell was the living embodification of his music: druggy, fat, laid back, and…
Jeff Giles
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Just a reminder: the Jefito Best of 2004 mix is still available here. I’ll keep it up for…I don’t know, maybe another week or so. After that, I’m not sure…
Jeff Giles
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Twelve years of being a “professional” music critic and seven of running a “record label” made me a target for anybody with a demo to schlep. As a result, I’ve…
Jeff Giles
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Some questions are dangerous to ask, and not meant to be answered. Like, “Would you rather French-kiss your grandmother, or slide down a giant razor blade into a pool of…
Jeff Giles
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Today we’ll be looking at one of CAPTAIN VIDEO!‘s favorite bands, Jefferson Starship–or Starship, or Jefferson Airplane, or whatever the hell they’re calling themselves these days. The Starship belongs to…
Jeff Giles
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Hello my friends, we are champion! There is another dust-biter! Scaramouche!
Jeff Giles
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Former MTV stars Matthew and Gunnar Nelson have opened up a Detective agency in Los Angeles. We specialize in solving the toughest cases the entertainment industry has to offer –…
Jeff Giles
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Apparently, the E! network is airing some reality series called Love Is in the Heir about an Iranian princess who wants to be a country music star or something like…
Jeff Giles
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So, I don’t really like Christmas songs. I mean, I don’t even really celebrate Christmas. But in much the same way I am fascinated by Asia albums, Night Ranger videos,…
Jeff Giles
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CAPTAIN VIDEO! remembered “Owner of a Lonely Heart” as being sort of disturbing and a little avant-garde–in other words, like a lot of videos from the period. I think I…
Jeff Giles
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You guys, the new Bon Jovi single is one of the most unbelievably awesome things I have heard all year. In the year 1992 AN (After Nirvana), just about every…
Jeff Giles
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From Billboard: The third time is the charm for Rod Stewart, who with his latest collection of standards sits at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 for the first time…
Jeff Giles
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“He looks like a transsexual minotaur.” So says a poster at my favorite online den of negativity, The Velvet Rope. And he/she is correct. Fuck you, Rod Stewart! You had…