This release from 1984 has less annoying production than Jools Holland and His Millionaires, and some better songs in the boogie woogie / rockabilly tradition. But it still falls kinda […]

This first solo record by Jools Holland came out in 1982, and I think I got it around 1983. I was such a huge Squeeze fan at that time, and […]

This was the release we were looking for when we became so enamored of the early MTV hit “Bates Motel” (wrote about it last time). For a band that was […]

As I’ve said before, MTV in its earliest days was a real influential hitmaker. With the right video, the right sensibility for the time, video could make a hit that […]