For once, we agree with the Scorpions, who have announced that their most recent album will be their last. Here are six artists we wish would follow suit.
Sting
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Ken Shane
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Bill Withers released his last album in 1985. After a relatively brief but hit-filled career, he walked away. Frustrated by the efforts of the so-called “blaxperts” at Columbia Records to…
Dave Steed
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Ssssssssssssstop the relentless surge of Bottom Feeders songs by artists whose names begin with the letter S, you say? Never! Here are more singles that charted below #40 on the…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Christmas is a time for jolly old fat men, but this is ridiculous. Who let Rush Limbaugh in here?
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Screw gingerbread and eggnog — today, Lemmy proves that the real taste of Mellowmas is whiskey and unfiltered cigarettes. Hide your pets and daughters!
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Because nothing says “Merry Christmas” like a pig-suckling, dolphin-voiced pianist, the time has come for us to listen to a little Tori Amos.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Have you ever wished the holidays weren’t so…you know…cheerful? Boy, has Sting got an album for you!
Robin Monica Alexander
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There have been a lot of boys, and men, whose pictures I have torn out of magazines for my personal use. The first may have been Michael Jackson, of whom…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE The thing I love about Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) is that it’s a holiday devoid of the trappings of Christmas. You don’t have to buy…
Ted Asregadoo
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Ted Asregadoo offers a musical rain dance to the stingy Californian weather gods with a Mix Six featuring songs from R.E.M., Roxy Music, and Paramore.
Scott Malchus
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Scott Malchus relives the fall of 1987, when Sting’s …Nothing Like the Sun was new and high school shenanigans were in the air.
Scott Malchus
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Two years ago, when I was working on this column’s debut, I wrote about Bruce Springsteen’s “Book of Dreams” and what the song means to Julie and me. During the…
Jack Feerick
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Poker? I hardly know her! Jack Feerick steps into the booth for this week’s Mix Six, and a batch of classic cards-themed tracks.
Will Harris
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This is how the history of Dave Wakeling goes: The English Beat, General Public, solo career, then back to General Public, and then to bring it nicely full circle, back…
Jason Hare
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Happy Friday and welcome to another edition of CHART ATTACK! So last time we met here to dissect a Billboard chart, it was a Top 10 from 1971, and I…
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…
Dw. Dunphy
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The Police make me thankful The Beatles never had a full-fledged reunion. It was a strange Sunday evening in the wilds of Holmdel, New Jersey. The PNC Arts Center usually…
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/j6Ewh6Bk-Qo” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Sting, “All This Time” (1991) Zack: There’s a certain element of playfulness to this song and its accompanying video that was a…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Sorry for the long delay between mixes, kids. Some real-life issues took over for the past few weeks and I had to take a break…
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