Pat Benatar – Crimes of Passion
This follow-up established Pat Benatar as a big rock star, and it was huge. I’m not into “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” which was the huge hit. “Hell Is For Children” was controversial,...
Ramblings about My Records
This follow-up established Pat Benatar as a big rock star, and it was huge. I’m not into “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” which was the huge hit. “Hell Is For Children” was controversial,...
I don’t know what we think of Pat Benatar these days. I don’t know what I think of Pat Benatar. Do we think of Pat Benatar? She seemed to splash on the scene with...
Oh boy, was I highly susceptible to some of those early MTV hits. We had cable (run through a fuzzy black and white console TV) in our final college apartment starting I think in...
This is a pretty recent acquisition, because all the kids are clamoring for reissued surf music in the 20teens. But what surf music! I previously only knew The Belairs for their sublime 1961 contribution...
So this is the story of how the Bee Gees Gold kept me from stabbing people. It would be hard to overstate how much the Bee Gees were all over 1977 and 1978. They...
In general, I’m surprised when anyone else is interested in the music I’m interested in. Okay, not The Beatles. But the Beau Brummels? Who else, in 1981, wanted to hear “Laugh Laugh” or “Don’t...
This is a very 1965 strong follow-up to their debut, with the great “You Tell Me Why,” and the dirgelike “Sad Little Girl,” along with “Don’t Talk To Strangers.” It ends on the rhythmic...
As my collection must have made obvious by now, there was a period of time when I was into just about anything to do with the ‘60s, particularly the British Invasion of ’64-’65-’66, and...
I’ve written before about The Flashcubes – for post-punk powerpop fans in Syracuse at the end of the ‘70s, there was no band more energetic or exciting. While we saw them in a lot of...
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