Greetings and welcome to CHART ATTACK!, the long-defunct-but-now-resurrected series where we take a look back at a Billboard Top 10 chart from yesteryear, and try to remember what we loved about…
Dire Straits
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Popdose Staff
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A critical look at a critical look at the history of the music video.
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Michael Parr
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It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
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Chris Holmes
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For Veterans Day, November 11, here are 11 great songs to help us remember and honor all those who have served in our military.
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Keith Creighton
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Ready for an excellent adventure? Fire up the Delorean, pad your shoulders, grab a turbo dog and bag of corn nuts, we’re about to bend the polyester fabric of space…
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Popdose Staff
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A rollicking Popdose Roundtable that explains why you’ve been listening to Rumours in the wrong order, among other things.
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Mike Duquette
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If you’ve not been following every breath he takes, you’re missing a lot of great guest appearances by the man they call Sting.
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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…
Popdose Staff
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We’re such geeks that we even think about albums with great second-to-last songs.
Kelly Stitzel
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In honor of the final Space Shuttle launch, Kelly the space nerd reminisces about the Shuttle program and revisits a film that is a sentimental favorite, 1986’s SpaceCamp.
Dw. Dunphy
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If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while the dreaded Snooki-beast is running around, trying…
Dave Steed
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It’s the last week for the letter D, as we take a look at more tracks that hit the Rock charts but failed to cross over to the Billboard Hot…
Dw. Dunphy
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We love to mock prog rock, but Dw. Dunphy has made a list of 50 prog albums that deserve to be in your collection. Here’s the first installment.
Dw. Dunphy
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Live albums, more than any other, date themselves immediately, and not merely because the date is plastered all over the recording. Multiple artists on a roster are even more susceptible….
Ted Asregadoo
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In his latest Mix Six, Ted Asregadoo contrasts bands’ debuts with songs from their most recent albums, including Weezer, Lone Justice, and New Order.
Dw. Dunphy
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Bad news for all the fans who thought that this, finally, was Knopfler’s return to Dire Straits-style rock and roll: Those days are gone, and have been for awhile now….
Matchup Monkey
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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you…
Dw. Dunphy
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Hat trick, mama!! Benny Hester – It’s Over Love from Through the Window (1987) Erik Norlander featuring Buck Dharma – Lost Highway from Music Machine (2003) Isaac Hayes – By…
Jason Hare
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Howdy, everybody! It’s CHART ATTACK! time once again!, What can I tell you about this week? Well, at least three of our artists owe their chart success to MTV. Four…
Dave Steed
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The other day someone asked me what the Á¢€Å“most valuableÁ¢€ record in my collection is. ItÁ¢€™s a question IÁ¢€™ve always had a hard time answering, because I have no idea…
Popdose Staff
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Dire Straits – “Skateaway” Melanie Safka – “Brand New Key” — n n n {democracy:12} — Last week, Zack and Placebo won your pity, taking 64% of the votes cast.Á‚ …
Scott Malchus
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“Wild West End,” a track from Dire Straits’ self-titled first record, is a dreamy, beautiful song I carry around with me, even if I don’t seek it out for regular…
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