Fingerprintz — The Very Dab
Oh, man. Is there music that just makes you feel young again? I don’t mean that reminds you of when you were young . . . that’s an almost endless list that doesn’t seem...
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Fingerprintz — Dancing With Myself 12”
Admittedly, it’s a little weird to be covering a 12” single before I’ve gotten to a band’s album, but in this case, this single by Fingerprintz was released about nine months before their first...
Fine Young Cannibals — The Raw and The Cooked
It took a bit more than three years for a follow-up to the debut album by Fine Young Cannibals, which had gotten them a huge amount of attention. In the ’80s, that was a...
Fine Young Cannibals – Fine Young Cannibals
I’ve talked with some of my music-minded friends about what a gap there can be between my perception of how popular a song was, based on its video presence back in the days when...
Fetchin Bones — Monster
1989/1990 was a transition year for me. Done with grad school in Syracuse, leaving typesetting and the printing business behind, and moving to a fellowship with the New York State Senate in Albany. Weird...
Bryan Ferry – Bête Noire
Everything I said in my last post about Bryan Ferry’s “Boys and Girls” also applies to “Bête Noire.” Released just two years later, in 1987, I played it a lot in those final years...
Bryan Ferry – Boys and Girls
I came to Roxy Music very late. I knew that they were popular, I knew that they were supposed to be sorta arty, I knew that 1974’s “Country Life” cover made all the boys...
Fanny — Mothers Pride
As I said last time, this is a new acquisition, and my love of Fanny is nearly as new, but man do I love this band. For this 1973 release, their fourth and last...
Fanny — Charity Ball
Wow. Wow. Wow wow wow. I wrote just a little bit about Fanny back in August (F has been a bit of a slog, eh?). I was not one of those people who knew...
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