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Donna Summer - Who Do You Think You're Foolin' Found 2 days ago Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ Things weren’t really happening for Donna Summer in 1980. The Queen of Disco and the sound she and producer Giorgio Morodor ushered in had fallen out of favor, replaced by… Read full post »
Kissing The Pink - Garden Party Found last week Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ “Secret Oktober”, the flip side of Duran’s “Union of the Snake” is truly a buried gem, a song that would have considerably brightened the overblown and overly bloated “Seven and… Read full post »
Thomas Dolby - The Wreck Of The Fairchild Found on Aug 18th, 2008 Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ One of Thomas Dolby’s earliest singles (even before THAT song, I believe) was the incredible “Airwaves,” a song I think was tough for him to equal – it’s mellow and… Read full post »
Human League - I Love You Too Much (Original Version) Found on Aug 11th, 2008 Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ There was a discussion over at Silence Is a Rhythm (scroll down about half a page) about the recent Human League reissues and how EMI have done an okay job… Read full post »
Rubber Rodeo - The Hardest Thing Found on Aug 4th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ Years before Cowboy Troy fused rap and country to create “Hick Hop”, Rhode Island outfit Rubber Rodeo, dressed in fringe jackets, cowboy boots and bolo ties, added the punk aesthetic… Read full post »
Mari Wilson - Just What I Always Wanted (Extended Version) Found on Jul 29th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ Wrapped in taffeta and camp while sporting a foot-high blonde beehive, Mari Wilson (not the Supreme) stepped out of the mid-sixties and straight into the new wave movement with her… Read full post »
Donnie Iris - Love Is Like a Rock Found on Jul 21st, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ Straight outta Beaver Falls, PA, came Dominic Ierace, playing in local combos until he and his band The Jaggerz hit number two in the ‘70s with “The Rapper”. After The… Read full post »
Eurythmics - Sexcrime (1984) [extended version] Found on Jul 14th, 2008 Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ Back in 2005, we saw the (nearly) complete re-release of 8 of Eurythmics albums, remastered and chock full of bonus tracks and b-sides, some never before released. Each disc features… Read full post »
Rick Springfield - State Of The Heart Found on Jul 7th, 2008 Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ I’m not scared – I’ll come right out and say it. Rick Springfield is one of power pop’s unsung heroes and should be held up right next to your Eric… Read full post »
Devo - Theme From Doctor Detroit Found on Jul 1st, 2008 Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ I’m not going to ramble on and on about the genius that is DEVO. Let’s assume my readers are hip and musically sophisticated enough to know all the background –… Read full post »
Belouis Some - Imagination Found on Jun 23rd, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ Like many a budding homo, I was quite the little fashion plate in high school. Yes, that's me with the grey pleather pants, white nylon vest, white leather skinny tie… Read full post »
Joe Strummer - Love Kills Found on Jun 16th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ Joe Strummer was not a very popular guy when 1986 rolled around. The year previous, he, alongside a new crew of imposters, had taken a nice healthy dump all over… Read full post »
The Time - Ice Cream Castles Found on Jun 9th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ “Contentious” is probably the word I’m looking for to describe the recording of the third (and at the time – har har – final) album from The Time. While “Ice… Read full post »
Kissing The Pink - Certain Things Are Likely (Club Mix) Found on Jun 2nd, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ Kissing the Pink. Yes, that's totally what it means. Ahem. Now that we've dispensed with all that, Kissing the Pink formed in 1980 in London and never really broke through… Read full post »
The Blow Monkeys - It Doesn't Have To Be This Way Found on May 27th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ In a nice bit of blog synergy, it seems everyone is talking about blue-eyed soul…which leads me to one of the sadder stories of the also-rans (at least in the… Read full post »
Visage - Mind Of A Toy Found on May 19th, 2008 Play Stop POPUP Favorite
Lost in the '80s ❤ Talk about DIY – when club promoter and all-around Paris-Hilton-famous-for-merely-being-famous trailblazer Steven Strange didn’t like that there weren’t enough good songs to play on his club night, he grabbed some… Read full post »
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