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…
White Label Wednesday
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David Medsker
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Are you ready to rock?! Wait, no, that”™s not right, let me try that again”¦are you ready for some melodic rock?! The whole reclassification of early “Ëœ80s arena rock as…
David Medsker
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Scout”™s honor, I had no idea this mix even existed until a few months ago, when it popped up on an “Ëœ80s remix message board I frequent. Always a big…
David Medsker
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Let”™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 it”™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 “Ëœfuckers!’ at the end of brief opening sentence copyright of Jeff Giles Inc. All rights reserved.) First off, if you’re a fan of…
David Medsker
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The Eagles dogpiling continues. First off, if you haven”™t had a chance, read Scott Malchus”™ great review of Don Felder”™s “Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001).” Good…
David Medsker
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Meet the rarest of beasts: the heavy metal dance mix. After the “disappointing” sales figures for Judas Priest”™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 “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 don”™t get much more “Ëœright place, right time”™ than Bryan Ferry and his sole Top 40 entry, “Kiss and Tell.” Despite his superstar status in his native England —…
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…
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