Tag: 1980s
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Tunesday: The Minutemen, Corona
If you kids ever wonder why we olden shits scoff at your Beeber and all that empty Disney crap, it’s because the music we played to make the double-hung windows shake was unimaginably awesome. You know nothing about the 1980s–Patti Labell and Duran Duran? I never once saw a girl wearing leg warmers on the…
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Tunesday : 1988 Cowboy Junkies
In one magnificent moment, the time it took for a needle to drop on a vinyl disk, everything I thought about music changed. I was a big admirer of the Velvet Underground, and for a while spent a lot of time arguing with people–often strangers at parties–that the Velvets were bigger and more important than…
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Tunesday : 1988 Revolution Music–Tracy Chapman
1988 was probably the most pivotal year in my developing taste in music. Until that point, I’d pretty much been a bit of a drifter, taste-wise, taking what I liked from what my friends exposed me to–I could still remember being excited for months before the first “Asia” supergroup album came out in when I…
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Tunesday: 1988 Throwing Muses–Juno, Bright Yellow Gun & More
Kristen Hersh and her band, Throwing Muses, have been among my very favorites since I initially heard the song “Juno” from their first full length album, House Tornado, grind it’s way out of my stereo speakers back in 1988. I’ve begun to realize what a magnificent year that was for my musical tastes–maybe there was…
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Are We Not Men? (Hey Sarah, This is for Steve)
I was sitting on a candlelit patio with some friends in the northern corner of the county several months ago, digesting some damn fine burritos, followed by the best homemade brownies I’ve ever had (really, Sarah) and chocolate chip cookies baked by an expatriot Frenchman, clop clops of Amish buggies rolling by, scoffing at a…
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The Homecoming Queen’s Got A Gun
The coming weekend will mark Homecoming celebrations in our community–a football game, the crowning of a king and queen, corsages and whatever those guy-corsage things that get pinned to lapels are called, kids dressing up and dancing and memories of –good god, it’s 30 years. Ugh. I wore a wool sweater under a brown wool…
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Friday Morning Rock and Roll Idols: The Traveling Wilburys
25 years ago I snobbishly failed to appreciate how really, really great this was. Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Bob Dylan…
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Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idols: The Reivers
Man, I loved these guys. If a band ever deserved to be rich and famous, it was The Reivers The Reivers: In Your Eyes
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Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idols: Husker Du
The best live bad, maybe ever…Diane, Hate Paper Doll, and Green Eyes.