A Flock of Seagulls — A Flock of Seagulls
Spring of 1982. Junior year of college. We have an apartment of moderate squalor. We have an heirloom black and white cabinet TV. We have basic cable. We have MTV. So, yes, of course...
Category: Pop
Flo & Eddie — Moving Targets
Following an album that was almost entirely a live comedy work, Flo & Eddie returned to more normal pop music with 1976’s “Moving Targets.” It starts with an almost Lennonesque lament about stardom and...
Flo & Eddie — Flo & Eddie
I am a huge fan of The Turtles. If all you know are “Happy Together” and “Elenore” — well then, you probably don’t know that “Elenore” was a tongue-in-cheek fuck-you to the record label...
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...
Marianne Faithfull – Come and Stay With Me
This is a new delight. Just got it this winter, courtesy of Phoenixville’s Forever Changes (on Instagram: @foreverchanges), back when going places and seeing people was a normal thing. (Deep sigh for how much...
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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