Á¢€Å“I dooooooonÁ¢€â„¢t wanna be old, and sleep alone / An empty house is not a home.Á¢€ The back half of that line is pure cliche, but that is the beauty…
David Medsker
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David Medsker
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Everyone seemed to have so much fun jumping into the wayback machine with Nicolette Larson Á¢€” and really, who wouldnÁ¢€â„¢t want to jump into a wayback machine with Nicolette Larson?…
David Medsker
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Man your battlestations, itÁ¢€â„¢s time for another quiz. No clue for this weekÁ¢€â„¢s puzzle, as you guys are far too good at this already. Below are magnified fragments of 25…
David Medsker
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Yep, another Duran Duran post from Popdose’s resident DD fanboy (or Durannie, as we were once called). Between this, my White Label post on “Hold Back the Rain,” and John…
David Medsker
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I’ve never been a big fan of Neil Young — I’ll just say it, itÁ¢€â„¢s that pinched voice of his — but I will admit to liking several of his…
David Medsker
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Okay, last week was just too easy. Time to spice things up a bit. Below are magnified fragments of 25 album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there…
David Medsker
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Á¢€Å“Awwwww, yeah! I see a real woman, I need to grab her, she busts out yodelinÁ¢€â„¢Á¢€¦Á¢€ There is just no better way to open a song than that. In 1988,…
David Medsker
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Imagine my surprise when I visited my then-girlfriend Á¢€” anyone who read my ValentineÁ¢€â„¢s Day piece knows her well Á¢€” over Christmas break in 1992, and in her car was…
David Medsker
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Hope you’re not wearing anything too fancy, because we’re about to get dirty. Bill Drummond and Jimmy Caulty have about as many aliases as Alain Jourgenson. As the Timelords, they…
Popdose Staff
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The Popdose staff was sitting around the other day, doing what we do best — namely, talking about records that most people wish they didn’t remember — when a discussion…
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/0KL_fgWgK40″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Mike + the Mechanics, “Silent Running” (1985) David Medsker: I love Paul Carrack as much as the next guy, but is what…
David Medsker
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Boing-ga-boing-ga-boing-boing, snap! Now that is a hook, bitches. For a long time, the name Stephen Duffy was nothing more to me than the answer to a trivia question about who…
David Medsker
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Are you ready to rock?! Wait, no, thatÁ¢€™s not right, let me try that againÁ¢€¦are you ready for some melodic rock?! The whole reclassification of early Á¢€Ëœ80s arena rock as…
David Medsker
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ScoutÁ¢€™s honor, I had no idea this mix even existed until a few months ago, when it popped up on an Á¢€Ëœ80s remix message board I frequent. Always a big…
David Medsker
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LetÁ¢€™s just ask the obvious question: how the hell did this song become a hit? This is not to say that the song is awful so much as itÁ¢€™s really,…
David Medsker
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I will not pretend to know more about the Screaming Blue Messiahs than I actually do. All I know is that their singer was bald and the people who liked…
David Medsker
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Get ur geek on, fuckers! (Use of Á¢€Ëœfuckers!Á¢€â„¢ at the end of brief opening sentence copyright of Jeff Giles Inc. All rights reserved.) First off, if youÁ¢€â„¢re a fan of…
David Medsker
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The Eagles dogpiling continues. First off, if you havenÁ¢€™t had a chance, read Scott MalchusÁ¢€™ great review of Don FelderÁ¢€™s Á¢€Å“Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001).Á¢€ Good…
David Medsker
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Meet the rarest of beasts: the heavy metal dance mix. After the Á¢€Å“disappointingÁ¢€ sales figures for Judas PriestÁ¢€™s 1984 album Defenders of the Faith (it merely went platinum), CBS Records…
David Medsker
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For many rock acts that made their mark in the Á¢€Ëœ70s, 1985 was the year they faced off against what could be called the New Wave Borg. The rules were…
David Medsker
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You donÁ¢€™t get much more Á¢€Ëœright place, right timeÁ¢€™ than Bryan Ferry and his sole Top 40 entry, Á¢€Å“Kiss and Tell.Á¢€ Despite his superstar status in his native England Á¢€”…
David Medsker
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The music industry is quick to tell you how piracy is killing them, and it surely is. What they’re not as vocal about is their tendency to kill themselves. This…
David Medsker
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Simply put, those Á¢€Å“U1Á¢€ jokes about Simple Minds that Py Korry referred to in his most recent Mix Six installment began here. Á¢€Å“Produced by Steve Lillywhite.Á¢€ For most bands, those…
David Medsker
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People are making a big deal out of Fatboy Slim and Soulwax doing remixes of tracks from the Rolling StonesÁ¢€™ back catalog, but this is truly much ado about nothing….
David Medsker
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Á‚ Or, the very first 12Á¢€ mix I ever heard and saw with my own eyes. My sister brought it home with her from college one Christmas. I was 14,…
David Medsker
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Los Angeles, September 1987. The director of A&R at Virgin Records rolls out of bed at three in the afternoon, his mind a fog after a three-day bender of booze,…
David Medsker
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No band wants their video legacy to trump their musical legacy, but in the case of Go West, chances are that when one of their songs comes on the radio…
David Medsker
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My club-friendly tendencies are clearly lost on the majority of PopdoseÁ¢€™s AOR-loving rock hounds, so letÁ¢€™s shake things up this week by putting Jimmy Page under the remix knife. Truth…
David Medsker
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Penelope made its debut at the Toronto Film Festival. The 2006 Toronto Film Festival. Not a good sign that the movie has languished this long without being released. The story…
David Medsker
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If you know me, then you know that I loves me some Duran Duran. Even when they make an album as unlistenable as Liberty, Pop Trash or Red Carpet Massacre…