Devo Stands Up to Fast Food Raids on '80s Music Culture
Monday June 30, 2008
Well, it's been nearly 18 months since I last ranted specifically in this space about the sad, almost inevitable intersection of crass commercialism and '80s music. But this time I ... Read More
This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s - 'Til Tuesday's "Coming Up Close"
Wednesday June 25, 2008
As one of the most consistently excellent songwriters and performers of the last 25 years, Aimee Mann stands out as one of the premier '80s artists capable of completely transcending ... Read More
Rootsy Guitar Pop Artist Nick Lowe a Major If Not Fully Acknowledged '80s Music Legend
Sunday June 22, 2008
In the course of composing material for this site, I've often stopped to consider carefully just what makes a group or individual an '80s artist rather than merely one who ... Read More
This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s - Hothouse Flowers' "Don't Go"
Tuesday June 17, 2008
Anyone under the false but popular impression that '80s music was more often than not painfully homogenous and lacking in soul should make some immediate time to crank up this ... Read More
Stains of the PMRC Unfortunately Linger in Our Collective '80s Music Education
Monday June 16, 2008
If you're old enough to remember how laughably frightened some people were of '80s heavy metal prior to the menace-ectomy administered to the genre by the reign of hair metal, ... Read More
This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s - Fiction Factory's "(Feels Like) Heaven"
Tuesday June 10, 2008
This largely unknown British band belatedly perfected a distinctly post-new wave yet still unabashedly New Romantic sound on this criminally underrated track from 1984. Lead singer Kevin Patterson provides the ... Read More
An '80s-Themed Elvis-Beatles Debate... Well, Sort Of
Monday June 9, 2008
OK, this is far from a perfect parallel, but I'm running with it anyway. You remember the wonderful moment in Pulp Fiction when Mrs. Marsellus Wallace interviews Vincent Vega before ... Read More
This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s - the Soft Boys' "There's Nobody Like You"
Tuesday June 3, 2008
There are a number of exhilaratingly strange elements to England's punk-era misfits the Soft Boys, not the least of which is the mind-blowing fact that the band's guitarist, Kimberley Rew, ... Read More