Musings on songs, music, memories
For decades, men have been able to do pretty much anything in rock music, from Bob Dylan’s less-than-stellar voice and looks to John Lennon’s use of the f word in “Working Class Hero.” Take your pick whether it’s worse to… Continue Reading
Perhaps no other band personifies 80s culture and style than Bananarama, whose New Wave tendencies were not only inherent in their music but in their videos and their style (Aqua Net, anyone?) as well. They had numerous Top 10 hits… Continue Reading
Finding the best R.E.M. album is easy at first because you can quickly separate the wheat from the chaff. There are very few meh R.E.M. albums. They’re either phenomenal or terrible. But the thing about R.E.M. is it’s hard to… Continue Reading
Debbie Gibson was the Taylor Swift of the 1980s. A young, talented and pretty singer who wrote some of her own songs, the 17-year-old burst onto the scene in 1987 with the album Out of the Blue, which yielded four… Continue Reading
In 2012, The Guardian music journalist Paul Morley expressed his hatred for Duran Duran, claiming that he had always despised the five-man band from Birmingham, England ever since they came on the scene in 1981. “I hated them from the… Continue Reading