Fingerprintz – Distinguishing Marks
I’m never sure just how to characterize Fingerprintz. They’re somewhere in the post-punk new wave but with a dance beat vein. Dark sounds, screaming guitars, and a very film noir sensibility. Whatever it is...
Category: ’80s
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...
Face to Face – Confrontation
Everything I just said about Face to Face’s eponymous debut album? Ditto for 1985’s “Confrontation.” Ditto for fun, ditto for power rock with great female vocals, ditto for “I played this in the ’80s...
Face to Face — Face to Face
I’ll admit I feared that as I got to the start of the F’s, I was going to have to endure something that maybe I wasn’t up for: Face to Face. I honestly didn’t...
Eurythmics — We Too Are One
Wow, this came out at an interesting time: September, 1989. I am super surprised that I even own this, for a whole bunch of reasons. First, I hadn’t loved the previous record, Savage, even...
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