The Jellybricks — Some Kind of Lucky
It must be admitted: I spent a couple of decades in a musical desert. After our early years of passionately following some local bands and going out to see them […]
It must be admitted: I spent a couple of decades in a musical desert. After our early years of passionately following some local bands and going out to see them […]
I mostly came to Joe Jackson, like millions of others, through “Night and Day,” which came out in 1982. I was very aware of “Look Sharp!” – maybe my roommate […]
The first two Go-Go’s albums fell right at the end of my college years, 1981 and 1982. Then they took a little break (by ’70s and ’80s standards), and their […]
As with “Beauty and the Beat,” while I’ve had this album since it came out in 1982, I haven’t really listened to it in many, many years. Again, several of […]
There are truly very few songs for which I can absolutely remember the first time I ever heard them, but “Our Lips Are Sealed” is one. It was released in […]
This was one of those records that my roommate Danny brought back from a summer in Boston, a summer where he was suddenly exposed to a raft of cool music […]
This has to be one of the more obscure records in my collection — obscure enough that I had to create its entry in Discogs. I mentioned a cool kid […]
This one’s brand spanking new. To me, that is. The album itself came out in 1985, and despite another change in production and direction, it didn’t do very much. If […]
Last time, I simply gushed about my love for Marshall Crenshaw. That first album of his was one of the absolutely definitive albums of my final college year, a ray […]
Wow. What is there to say about this album? In 1982, things were happening, musically. There was change, opportunity, an explosion of creativity. “New” sounds were breaking in everywhere, although […]