Category: Pop

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Badfinger — Magic Christian Music

For the longest time, there has been a Badfinger-sized hole in my record collection. Back when we were initially collecting records, in the early ’80s, my roommate Danny had several Badfinger albums, including this...

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Bacharach & Costello – The Songs of Bacharach & Costello

I lived long enough to go from thinking that Burt Bacharach’s songs were the squarest songs in the world – probably solely because they were appreciated by the older generation – to thinking they...

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Eric Burdon & The Animals – Eric Is Here

The ‘60s are hard to explain sometimes. There was all that excitement and revolutionary change, and at the same time, there was the embrace of weird “old-timey” stuff and non-ironic backsliding. And as the...

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Tori Amos – Ocean To Ocean

Still playing catch-up: I definitely had a Tori Amos phase, but as with most things, it was after she’d had her moment with the “Little Earthquakes” and “Under the Pink” albums. I was aware...

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ABC – How To Be A Zillionaire!

Still doing this alphabetically — and we’re still in ABC. Although “Beauty Stab” was a disappointing second album, it still did quite well on the charts, meaning a third album was likely. With another...

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ABC – Beauty Stab

As a huge fan of ABC’s “The Lexicon of Love,” I was thoroughly pre-disposed to love “Beauty Stab,” their sophomore effort that came just a year later in 1983. But for anyone who wanted...

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ABC – Lexicon of Love 12″ Singles

In the ’80s, even though the sale of 7″ 45s was on the decline, suddenly 12″ singles became the thing. Every big or moderately big or not big at all artist was putting out...