The second (and seemingly final) Traveling Wilburys album turns 20 this week — and for Dw. Dunphy, the disappointment still stings a little.
Popdose Flashback ’90
31 Articles
Jason Hare
2 Min Read
Jason Hare reflects on the 20th anniversary of Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 — the beginning of the end for George Michael’s US career.
Michael Fortes
4 Min Read
On the 20th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s death, Michael Fortes revisits the Texas guitar master’s swan song: a collaboration with brother Jimmie Vaughan.
Kelly Stitzel
3 Min Read
Kelly Stitzel brings us back to Christmas 1990 to celebrate the release of Deee-Lite’s debut, “World Clique.”
Michael Fortes
3 Min Read
Though Sonic Youth are the quintessential indie rock group, they actually spent 18 years on a major label. Michael Fortes looks back at the start of it all.
Michael Fortes
4 Min Read
Punk? Metal? No matter what you call Suicidal Tendencies, there’s no argument that 1990’s “Lights…Camera…Revolution” was a peak for the band.
Michael Fortes
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In a very personal Flashback ’90, Popdose writer Michael Fortes revisits the lows and highs of Cheap Trick’s Busted, song by song.
Mike Heyliger
1 Min Read
Sure, a big part of Mariah Carey’s success had to do with cold calculation. If you listen to her 1990 debut album, it’s fairly obvious that the folks behind her…
Jon Cummings
2 Min Read
Bobby. Art. Dave. Sonny. Ike. J-’Stache. Curt. Paul (Humphreys, that is). Everly (no, not that one, the other one) … Of all the lesser halves of pop’s greatest duos, certainly…
Matthew Bolin
1 Min Read
It’s been 20 years since Lou Reed and John Cale set aside their differences to pay tribute to their former manager, Andy Warhol. Matthew Bolin takes a look back.
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
Earth Day 1990 was a very big deal. Held on April 23, a Sunday, it marked the pinnacle of an upswing in green consumerism and a transition for the environmental…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
The 1980s were not, to put it mildly, a good decade for brass sections. We still heard horns on the Top 40, sure — but more often than not, we…
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
Everybody remembers Eddy Grant’s early-’80s hit “Electric Avenue,” but he came back strong in 1990 with Barefoot Soldier, as Kelly Stitzel reminds us in this edition of Popdose Flashback ’90.
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
When the Lightning Seeds sprouted on modern rock radio in the spring of 1990, their songs felt (as much as anything on modern rock radio could feel) like a comfy…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
For some people, Social Distortion is the very definition of a rock and roll band. After all, they have everything the average rock fan could ask for – the sizzling…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
We’re only a few months into our Flashback ’90 series, and we’ve already unearthed about as many regrettable hits as we have certified classics — and chances are, you aren’t…
Mike Heyliger
1 Min Read
Twenty years after this Public Enemy classic was released, Mike Heyliger reflects on its legacy — and laments mainstream hip-hop’s turn away from social consciousness.
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
Rob Smith tells himself he’s over the Pretty Woman soundtrack, but is he the king of wishful thinking?
Mike Heyliger
1 Min Read
Slap it up, flip it, rub it down, oh no! Bell Biv DeVoe’s debut is 20 years old!
Ben Wiser
1 Min Read
Twenty years after it was released, Ben Wiser says Peter Murphy’s Deep still cuts you up.
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
We soon learned that what she “hadn’t got” was her marbles. But do we have to ignore the crazy to remember what a great album this is?
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
In the spring of 1990, I was in the middle of the first long-term relationship of my adolescent life. By “long-term,” I mean “six months,” but hey, when you’re teetering…
Jon Cummings
6 Min Read
A favorite trope among the British Invasion bands of the ’60s was the notion that they took the R&B, country and early rock music that America had exported during the…
Jack Feerick
5 Min Read
Jack Feerick reflects on 20 years of listening to Luka Bloom — and takes us back to the days when finding music sometimes took hard work and a little luck.
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
In the latest installment of Popdose’s Flashback ’90 series, Rob Smith revisits the heartbreak and loneliness of Cowboy Junkies’ album The Caution Horses.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Twenty years ago, the reconstituted Bad Company turned Holy Water into platinum. Jeff Giles thinks it might finally be time to forgive.
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
In January of 1990, the Blue Nile released their second album. Ken Shane celebrates 20 years of listening to what he calls “one of the great pop albums of its, or any, time.”
Michael Parr
1 Min Read
Michael Parr looks back the chord struck in his 15-year-old psyche — 20 years ago! — by Toad the Wet Sprocket’s Pale.
Robin Monica Alexander
1 Min Read
This is where the party ends, ’cause we can’t stand here listening to They Might Be Giants’ Flood turning 20 years old. Twenty! Where has the time gone? And why does someone keep moving my chair?
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
He might be a little peeved about the band’s ongoing hiatus, but Jeff Giles still has enough love for the Sundays to celebrate their debut’s 20th birthday.
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