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Popdose Flashback ’91
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Jack Feerick
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How a last-ditch career-saver became a power pop classic.
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Jon Cummings
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Remembering the guy who brought country, and bad shirts, to the suburbs.
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Jack Feerick
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Twenty years ago, it was possible to be a regional success without breaking out nationally. This is the story of the rise and plateau and eventual fall of Cliffs of Dooneen, a cautionary tale of the perils of influence.
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Jack Feerick
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I knocked around the fringes of academia for years, but it’s just as well that I never became a teacher — because there’s nothing I find more irritating than a…
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed takes a look back at the album that changed the face of metal forever, on its 20th anniversary.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed takes a look back at the 20-year anniversary of the debut from hip-hop legends, P.M. Dawn.
Jeff Giles
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In the fall of 1991, I was a high school senior, just starting to find my feet as a music writer — and as a listener, just discovering pathways into…
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed reflects back on the New Jack Swing era as Color Me Badd’s debut album turns 20 years old this week.
Dave Steed
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“Music for the People” turns 20 this week and to celebrate, Dave Steed tracked down Funky Bunch member Hector the Booty Inspector and asked him to reminisce.
Robin Monica Alexander
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No one could top the Clash, so Mick Jones didn’t try…instead, he forged his own path with the brainy dance music of Big Audio Dynamite. Robin Monica Alexander looks back at “The Globe.”
Jack Feerick
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How did a clownish, mostly-acoustic French ensemble make a record that exemplifies the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll? For the merry misfits of Les Négresses Vertes, music was a gang fight — and defeat was not an option.
Mike Heyliger
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De La Soul dead? Hardly? Their masterful sophomore effort, one of the best hip-hop albums of all time, gets the Flashback ’91 treatment on Popdose.
David Medsker
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Or, to borrow an album title from the Judybats, Pain Makes You Beautiful. In 1990, Joe Jackson had just signed a spiffy new deal with Virgin Records after spending 10…
Dave Steed
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Nathan, Michael, Shawn and Wanya: four names that were on everyone’s mind 20 years ago. Dave Steed takes a look back at his awkward teen years and nights spent alone with Boyz II Men’s Cooleyhighharmony.
Jack Feerick
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There’s a curious waiting game that you play, as a fan, following a band you have loved in the knowledge that their best work is already behind them. They may…
Jack Feerick
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I spent most of the 1990s training myself to be a self-conscious aesthete. Which makes me sound, I suppose, like some horrible, sneering, holier-than-thou funwrecker. Really, though, it was just…
Dw. Dunphy
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Popdose analyzes a seminal rock album, Slint’s Spiderland, that 80% of the public doesn’t even knows exist.
Dw. Dunphy
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Popdose goes back to 1991 with the debut album from Australia’s Baby Animals.
Annie Zaleski
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It’s not often that a band releases two solid albums in the same week — twenty years apart. But such a gesture is just all in a day’s work for…
David Medsker
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In between more timely projects and content, the Popdose staff are dissecting albums from 1991, which happens to be one of my favorite years of music. It was also…
Will Harris
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John Wesley Harding’s sophomore studio album hits the big 2-0 this week, and Wes himself steps into the wayback machine to reflect on his efforts.
Annie Zaleski
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When Material Issue front man Jim Ellison committed suicide in June of 1996, the act was sharp and sudden. The 32-year-old wasn’t a stereotypical grunge sad-sack. He was an anachronistic…
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith travels back in time to Graham Parker’s 1991 album Struck by Lightning, in today’s Popdose Flashback.
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel takes a look at Susanna Hoffs’s solo debut, which just celebrated its 20th birthday.
Matthew Bolin
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In 1991’s The Soul Cages, rock legend Sting simply became Gordon Sumner again, a boy grieving over his father’s death.
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