Welcome back, my friends, to another edition of Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold! Oh, what wussiness shall we cover today? No need to wait to find out: IT’S…
John C. Hughes
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The Cars were in a peculiar position in 1987. After the huge success of Heartbeat City and some lesser success with various solo outlets, the band regrouped to work on…
Jeff Giles
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As those of us who devour pop culture rags and websites — or write for ‘em — know, ’tis the season to be list-y, as in “Best of 2006″ lists….
John C. Hughes
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So of all the Cars solo projects (I haven’t forgotten Greg Hawkes’ 1983 effort – but it’s mostly instrumental), whose do you think was the most successful? You’d think the…
Jason Hare
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Welcome back to another awesome week here at CHART ATTACK! Last week, we covered the wondrous Top 10 in 1987. Let’s backtrack just one year prior, shall we, and see…
John C. Hughes
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So, we’ve established that between writing every single Cars song (with rare exceptions of collaborations with keyboardist Greg Hawkes) and releasing a solo album that Ric Ocasek was very much…
John C. Hughes
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After relative public indifference towards Panorama’s experimentation (while the album peaked at a respectable #5, it failed to chart a single any higher than #37), The Cars regrouped and retreated…
Jason Hare
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Welcome back! Hopefully you’ve recovered from last week’s one-two punch of Dan Hill and Little River Band. But here we are again, and you know what time it is. It’s…
John C. Hughes
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While this shambles its way across the country, embarrassing itself in half-empty sheds nationwide (as Molly Shannon’s Marcy Darcy would say, “Don’t even get me started!”), what better time to…
Jeff Giles
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Greetings, and welcome back from the Land of Tryptophan! I hope you all enjoyed your long weekend as much as I did. As you can see below, I’ve posted the…
Jason Hare
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Greetings from Albany, where I’m spending my post-Thanksgiving turkey hangover with my in-laws and preparing to lay down on the couch and watch TV all freaking day. Hope you’re doing…
John C. Hughes
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Did someone mention Paul Young? Oh yeah, I did. Paul Young was one of the new crop of British blue-eyed soul acts that sprouted up like crabgrass in the early-to-mid…
Jason Hare
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Happy early Thanksgiving, mellow miners! It’s time for another edition of Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold, and today I’ve got two smooth songs for you – the perfect…
Jeff Giles
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I meant to do this yesterday, but watching the 49ers beat my beloved Seahawks sapped my will to live, and I spent the rest of the evening gnashing my teeth…
Jason Hare
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Ah HA! I see you have returned. You cannot resist the CHART ATTACK!, can you? No. You cannot. I didn’t think so. You need to know exactly what was happening…
Jason Hare
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Welcome back to another edition of Mellow Gold goodness, sissies! I’ll be honest – when Jefito suggested I start a series about Mellow Gold, I was skeptical. I wasn’t sure…
Jeff Giles
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I’m a bad man. If you want to know why, just head over to Py Korry’s place and see/hear what I did to him this weekend.
Jeff Giles
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What I’m reviewing at Bullz-Eye this week… Vince Gill’s These Days : (”Whether you like country music or hate it, if you love music, you’d do well to grab a…
John C. Hughes
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Was marrying Heather Mills the most embarassing thing Paul McCartney ever did? Unfortunately, no. And this didn’t help matters any: So, is that the most cringe-inducing “Wacky Celebrity Cameo” video…
Jason Hare
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Welcome back to this week’s CHART ATTACK! We had quite the backlash with last week’s entry from 1989, so I went back nearly a decade for this week’s chart: November…
Jeff Giles
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Tim Finn – Horizon from Imaginary Kingdom (2006)Chris Whitley – All Beauty Taken From You In This Life Remains Forever from Reiter In (2006)Lou Reed – I’m So Free from…
John C. Hughes
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Fiction Factory is one of those bands whom I’ve always read about since they came and went in the early ’80s, but never actually heard until a few years ago….
Jason Hare
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Welcome back, mellow miners, to another week of Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold! I thought that I wasn’t going to have time to write your MG post this…
Jeff Giles
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Lordy, lordy. Two days and no posts? What’s gotten into me? Well, work, mostly. If you’re interested in knowing what it is I do on a typical Monday, here it…
John C. Hughes
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Can’t do one without doing the other, I suppose. After seeing massive success with her debut solo album, “Belladonna”, Stevie Nicks settled into more regular pattern of releasing solo works…
Jeff Giles
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Here’s what I’m reviewing at Bullz-Eye this week: Enigma’s A Posteriori : (“It isn’t bad, necessarily, but why in the world does anybody need more than one Enigma album? There…
Jeff Giles
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Stop what you’re doing and head over to Lost in the ’80s. This is good advice on a regular day, but today, oh wow, our friend John has some great…
Jeff Giles
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Aha! Bet you didn’t think there was going to be a Bootleg City today, didja? This actually would have been up much sooner, but uploads were a monstrous pain in…
John C. Hughes
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Some shit you can’t make up. TRACK LISTING:Frosty The Snowman Silver Bells Happy Holiday Merry Christmas Baby White Christmas Here Comes Santa Claus God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Santa Claus…
Jason Hare
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This week’s Chart Attack! is dedicated to my buddy Raz. Raz has hated just about every post I’ve done with the exception of Chart Attack! #2, because it covered a…