Blotto – Hello! My Name is Blotto. What’s Yours?
If you’re from the Albany area — and particularly if you’re from the Albany area in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s — you know Blotto. Starting from the odd beginning of a comedy...
Category: New Wave
Blondie – Autoamerican
Okay, I just listened to this for this project. Somebody owes me. With this 1980 release, the band got experimental, branched out, tried new things. That’s fine, and I strongly encourage it. But that...
Blondie – Eat To The Beat
I guess I’ve always thought of this as a seriously lesser Blondie album. Released in October 1979, its first single was “Dreaming,” one of the absolute best Blondie songs and one of my favorite...
Blondie – Parallel Lines
Of course, this was the breakout album for Blondie, the one that made them international superstars, the one that made millions of people explain “Debbie Harry isn’t Blondie, that’s the name of the band.”...
Blondie – Plastic Letters
So, as I said last time, I picked up both “Blondie” and “Plastic Letters” after I’d already learned every note of “Parallel Lines.” In fact, “Plastic Letters,” which like their debut was produced by...
Blondie – Blondie
I came a tiny bit late to the Blondie party — or rather, I came to it exactly the same time almost everybody else did, with 1978’s Parallel Lines. I believe that I really...
Berlin – Pleasure Victim
As we stroll through the ‘B’ section of my record collection, we have hit on a little stretch that has chronology and MTV in common. The Belle Stars, Pat Benatar, and now Berlin –...
The Bangles – Different Light
Different Light was one of those albums that, if you were alive when it came out in 1986, you owned. At least that’s how it seemed to me. Everyone owned “Rumours,” everyone owned “Thriller,”...
The Bangles – All Over The Place
Another one being inserted out of alphabetical order because I insist on buying more vinyl. I’ve already written about how much I enjoyed that very first Bangles EP, and that even though like almost...
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