Ramblings about My Records
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...
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...
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...
The second single from Marc Almond’s “The Stars We Are” was the sensational “Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart,” a duet with the amazing Gene Pitney. Pitney had a string of hits in the...
Well, I’m anxious to at least get a little further into the ‘A’ section of my collection than ABC, so maybe I’m a little glad that I don’t actually have the album this one...
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...
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...
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...
Moving down the alphabet but not moving out of pop. I was playing a video from this album last night, and my grownkid said of ’80s music generally that maybe you had to be...
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