(For more information, see 2 Meter Sessions: Volume One) Southside Johnny & The Ashbury Jukes – Southside Johnny & The Ashbury Jukes – It’s Been A Long TimeThe Tragically Hip…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Salt-N-Pepa – Let’s Talk About Sex (remix) (1991) Aww yeah. Yet another box of free cassingles showed up here this week — eighty of ’em this time — meaning that…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
George Benson – The Gentle Rain from Beyond the Blue Horizon (1971)The Jenerators – Don’t Wanna Wait from The Jenerators (1994)Stan Getz & Kenny Barron – I’m Okay from Café…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Part 1 in a once-a-week, yearlong series designed to get you off your dead ass and dancin’. Shake it, bitches! Art of Noise – Beat Box (Diversion 1)
Jason Hare
12 Min Read
Welcome back to another fun-filled edition of CHART ATTACK! I really love this week. At the time, I was 10 years old, and was starting to listen to the radio…
Jeff Giles
2 Min Read
Billy Ocean – Tear Down These Walls (1988) purchase this album (Amazon) Oh, Billy Ocean. How is it we’re just now getting to you? Wait, I know — I fucking…
John C. Hughes
2 Min Read
No, don’t you dare click to the next blog. Seriously, you’re going to like this one a lot more than you think you will. The quintessential one-hit wonder, Toni Basil…
Jason Hare
6 Min Read
Welcome back, folks, to another week of Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold! I want you to know that I am covering today’s song under great duress. It took…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Bryan Eich – Sleeping By a Wire (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby) Fans of deliciously hooky Britpop (by way of Brooklyn) have a new best friend in Bryan Eich, whose…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
The Replacements – Nightclub Jitters from Pleased to Meet Me (1987)The Cars – Since You’re Gone from Shake It Up (1981)Paul Carrack – Burning Love from Eyes of Blue (single)…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
Stacy Lattisaw was a mere 16 years old in 1983 (the Best Year for Music Ever!) and had already notched two Top 40 hits and a number one Dance Club…
Darren Robbins
1 Min Read
In our second installment of tracks from Cheap Trick’s legendary New Year’s Eve show at L.A.’s Forum, we’re going to forego any further delay of gratification and focus on the…
Jason Hare
9 Min Read
Hooray for Friday! The end of another work-week, and time to rip open another Top 10 from the vaults. How about July 12, 1980? 10. Let Me Love You Tonight…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
Well, hello there. Nice to see you. What’s that? Lost B-sides Week was last week? I haven’t posted anything since? I’m sure I don’t know what you’re talking about. Ahem….
Jeff Giles
3 Min Read
No Second Troy – Narcotic (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby) Almost since there was such a thing as rock & roll, the people who love it have been split into…
Darren Robbins
1 Min Read
On New Year’s Eve 1979, Cheap Trick, riding a crest of massive international success via the multi-platinum At Budokan record (and the newly released Dream Police), came to L.A.’s Forum…
Jason Hare
6 Min Read
Hi again, everybody! It’s that time again – that time when we dissolve any sense of self-respect and go spelunking through the Mines Of Mellow Gold! David Soul – Don’t…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
I’m not sure how many of you read my other blog, but you may have missed this post where I linked to a Brain Melting Video of the most…inventive…performance of…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer from Stop Making Sense (reissue) (1999)Rod Stewart – Let Me Be Your Car from Smiler (1974)Ryuichi Sakamoto – Energy Flow from BTTB (1999)Bill Janovitz and…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Schiing dips into his stack of Random Tracks and comes up with some Stephanie Mills; Mulberry Panda 96 explores the phenomenon known as hip-hop amnesia; Ickmusic boogies down with the…
Jason Hare
10 Min Read
Howdy, everybody! We’re back for yet another week of this crazy lil’ thing called CHART ATTACK! Hope you’re ready to help me tear apart the Top 10 from July 6,…
Jeff Giles
4 Min Read
Al Jarreau – Heart’s Horizon (1988)purchase this album (Amazon) First of all, I love Al Jarreau. Let’s start there. And by “I love Al Jarreau” I mean I love his…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
We just talked about Gene Loves Jezebel recently, so why not feature a Lost B-side from the fey, scarf-twirling duo? While I’ve previously lamented that today’s featured song’s a-side was…
Jason Hare
5 Min Read
Happy Fourth of July, dear readers! What better way to celebrate this country’s independence than to review yet another tale of unabashed codependency? And, of course, in conjunction with this…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
Did you know this is the first time in this humble blog’s two and a half-year history that we’ve featured Culture Club? That’s a bit of a travesty which needs…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
It’s been some time since we last did this, so we’re about due for another Lost B-sides Week here at LIT80s, aren’t we? All this week, we’ll feature b-sides to…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Chris Rock – Your Mother’s Got a Big Head (1991) Before kicking off his career as a star of terrible romantic comedies, Chris Rock was one of the best young…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Eazy-E – Still Talkin’ from Eazy Duz It (1988)Thomas Dolby – Silk Pyjamas from Astronauts & Heretics (1992)Bill Frisell – Lonesome from Gone, Just Like a Train (1998)Taj Mahal –…
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
This week I offered to create a mix tape, of sorts, for one of my favorite blogs, Py Korry (see link to the right). The sit does some great writing…
Jason Hare
8 Min Read
Hi hi hi hi hi! Welcome back to another fun-filled CHART ATTACK! This week we’re heading back up to the end of the ’80s – July 1, 1989! 10. I’ll…