Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
David Medsker
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David Medsker
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Welcome to my brand-new column Pop Goes the World, which aims to serve as an antidote of sorts to the sad, sad, sad world of Mope Like Me. (That scream…
David Medsker
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Q: Why aren’t there any jokes about Guyana? A: The punch line’s too long. Thanks, I’m here all week. Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Sometimes itÁ¢€â„¢s good to live in the metro area of a big city.Á‚ Sure, you have to deal with heavy traffic, the lack of parking,…
David Medsker
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
David Medsker
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This will be the last Mope Like Me column. In truth, I didn’t think I would be saying this, at least not this soon after launching it. I’m a sucker…
David Medsker
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Q: What do you call a guy who hangs out with a bunch of musicians? A: A drummer. Personally, I don’t find that joke funny. There isn’t a single great…
The Chartburn Panel
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Do not be alarmed! Do not adjust your set! Chartburn hasn’t gone away — it’s just sharing space with some more Friday features, including the new and improved Freshly Unwrapped,…
David Medsker
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So Keith Richards finally dies and goes to Heaven. Saint Peter is showing him around, and Keith is peppering him with questions. “Is that Jimi Hendrix?” Yes, St. Peter tells…
David Medsker
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Raoul and the Kings of Spain is the most maligned album in Tears for Fears’ catalog…and I totally get that. It is completely out of step with everything else they’ve…
David Medsker
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Yo. Sorry, that’s all I got for a greeting today. Below are magnified fragments of 25 album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure…
David Medsker
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In late 2007, I attempted to launch a weekly mp3 column on Eat Sleep Drink Music, the music blog of my employers at Bullz-Eye. However, the column was killed almost…
David Medsker
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I need to see some ID before you can play this game. Oh, who am I kidding, there can’t be anyone under the age of 30 playing this, is there?…
David Medsker
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Hidelyho, Popdoserinos! Ready for another slam diddly doodly bangerrific quiz? Below are magnified fragments of 25 album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure…
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/bo2Aypi0R2c” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Blue Oyster Cult, “Burnin’ for You” (1981) Mike: One of exactly two Blue Oyster Cult songs I’m familiar with (I’m sure we…
David Medsker
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Rockwell once said he felt like somebody was watching him. Odds are, it was Animotion. Have you taken a close look at the lyrics to “Obsession” lately? This gives “Every…
David Medsker
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What’s shakin, Stevens? I’ve been taking rapping lessons from Andy Samberg lately. Bloopy bloop blurp blah blah dookie doo… Below are magnified fragments of 25 album covers. Most of them…
David Medsker
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“Never mind me, ’cause I’ve been dead Out of my body, been out of my head…” Grant Lee Phillips, you have my attention. “There’s nothing that I said that’ll bring…
David Medsker
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Hello, my friends, for the Barely Legal edition of Cover Me. Below are magnified fragments of 25 album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few…
David Medsker
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The funny thing about music in 1985: they would make an extended mix of anything. Even funnier, people would dance to it. Take this weekÁ¢€™s subject, the UK band Vitamin…
David Medsker
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(With apologies to Ted, as there are no sob stories about failed relationships this week.) Let it not be said that Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown was without its good points. Actually,…
David Medsker
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Hello, everyone. I want to play a game. But donÁ¢€â„¢t worry, this isnÁ¢€â„¢t one of those Jigsaw games where you have to choose between your life and, say, your eyesight….
David Medsker
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ItÁ¢€â„¢s quite possible that this song is the Á¢€Å“Sliding DoorsÁ¢€ moment that put me on the musical path that I would ultimately follow. This is strange, when you consider that…
David Medsker
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“A butterfly flies through the forest rain And turns the wind into a hurricane…” I was playing this song at work once, and a coworker of mine walked up and…
David Medsker
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Sometimes, itÁ¢€™s not whom you know, but whom you call family. The interwebs are not very forthcoming about the origins and chart history of Boogie Box High, the nom de…
David Medsker
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All right, you super-smart, wily bastards. This quiz is being assembled shortly after you disemboweled Games Four and Five. Time to step up the attack somewhat. Below are magnified fragments…
David Medsker
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I will not rest until Simply Red covers this song. For someone who has gotten almost as cover-friendly in his autumn years as UB40, I’m frankly surprised this hasn’t happened…
David Medsker
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Can you feel it? ItÁ¢€â„¢s like an invitation to another game of Cover Me. Can you hear it? ThatÁ¢€â„¢s the sound of me running out of bands to use in…
David Medsker
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The show must go on. Scraps may be temporarily out of action, but the rest of the Popdose staff is picking up the slack and carrying on with Name That…
David Medsker
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Or, White Label Wednesday, Before They Were Stars Edition Underworld would like you believe that they were immaculately conceived in 1994 as the spooky techno band that Á¢€Å“debutedÁ¢€ with dubnobasswithmyheadman,…