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Simple Minds
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David Medsker
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I’ve been sitting on this idea for about a year. It felt too obvious, but then I ran into a really busy stretch, and then suddenly obvious sounded AWESOME. So…
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David Medsker
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The idea came, as a lot of my ideas do, from a Duran Duran song. Do I have enough songs to do a full show about dreams? As I quickly…
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David Medsker
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Followed a song by Bowie with a song about Bowie. I am not deep.
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David Medsker
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If there is anything holding the album back, it’s the insistence on a radio-friendly unit shifter.
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David Medsker
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“Kirsty MacColl was cute as a button and smarter than anyone, and didn’t take any bullshit.”
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David Medsker
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Total widescreen pop show this week, and new Simple Minds!
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Scott Malchus
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Two 80s movie gems receive 30th Anniversary Blu-ray love.
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David Medsker
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“It’s a warm embrace from an old friend that you haven’t seen in a long time.” My stepbrother said that. He’s not wrong.
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Dw. Dunphy
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Announcing his latest project, Andrew Curry discusses the 1980s and how the Europeans led a brand new musical movement.
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Dave Steed
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Bart Simpson hangs with the 69 Boyz in this weeks edition of Bottom Feeders
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Popdose Staff
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We’re on to Disc Six of this seven-disc set this week, and man oh man do these silly pop songs elicit some strong opinions. Put your helmets on, kids, cos…
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Kelly Stitzel
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The last of the Soundtrack Saturday reruns revisits one of the column’s first posts, about the John Cusack classic Better Off Dead.
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Jack Feerick
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In this week’s AM Gold roundtable, I dared to speak ill of Shirley Bassey’s iconic theme for “Goldfinger.” My contention was that, if this song were not the theme tune…
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Kelly Stitzel
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Pop some popcorn and polish your dancing shoes. The latest Weeknight ’80s Dance Mix features songs from some of your favorite ’80s movies.
Kelly Stitzel
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This week’s ’80s Dance Party is brought to you by heartbreak, passion, longing, lace and dark lipstick.
Jack Feerick
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There’s a curious waiting game that you play, as a fan, following a band you have loved in the knowledge that their best work is already behind them. They may…
Dave Steed
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Grace Slick takes us down the “Sea of Love” which Tommy Shaw reminds us there’s “No Such Thing” as bad ’80s music. Oh, how wrong that statement is.
David Medsker
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The patron saints of Popdose are an unconventional bunch, to be sure. The big joke among the staff at the annual board meeting, held in Matt Wardlaw’s palatial estate, is…
Jack Feerick
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Courtesy. Professionalism. Humility. Generosity. All the qualities that a gifted musician brings to process of collaboration. And yet somehow, Lou Reed continues to make guest appearance on other people’s records. Go figure.
David Medsker
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A girl on whom I held a massive crush in high school gave me one of her senior year photos, and on the back she wrote, “I will never hear…
Robert Cass
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The budget cuts continue in Bootleg City. This week I had to lay off the village idiot. It was a tough call. On the one hand, he’s provided countless hours…
Jack Feerick
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Once again kids, yours truly is handing over the mixing duties to Jack Feerick — who brought us a mix that “gave the drummer some.” This week’s mix celebrates a…
Zack Dennis
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When The Breakfast Club begins, we’re presented with the five characters as easily defined stereotypes – “a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.†In the…
David Medsker
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Simply put, those “U1†jokes about Simple Minds that Py Korry referred to in his most recent Mix Six installment began here. “Produced by Steve Lillywhite.†For most bands, those…
Jon Cummings
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If you were a GenXer coming of age in the 1980s, moviegoing meant heavy doses of Harrison Ford, too much Tom Cruise, an occasional journey into the unhinged eraserhead of…
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