1980
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A fun, catchy little number that burned up the radio with its catchy melody and singalong chorus. Read more
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Silly video, sexy song. Stereolab owes a lot to them…. Read more
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I’ve been reading Facing The Other Way, Martin Aston‘s excellent biography of the esteemed 4AD label, and in so doing I’ve been going back and exploring the label’s early records, ones that don’t necessarily have much in common with what the label would become. One such case is Cupol, who released one twelve-inch record, Read more
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Q-Tips was a true one-off, a spinoff of 70s British pop band Streetband, a group saddled with a novelty hit that stinted their growth. After a handful of records, they would morph into Q-Tips, a tribute to a retro sound, not unlike Darts or Sha Na Na. Unlike those two bands, Q-Tips paid tribute to Read more
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The four members New York’s Kleeer had spent the 1970s working in the funk and disco scene before finally coming together in 1978, signing to Atlantic, where they would release seven albums of funk/dance groove. Winners, their sophomore album, is an album resting firmly at the crossroads of black music: disco was on its way Read more
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The original incarnation of the experimental electronic noise-punks Chrome consisted of Damon Edge and Helios Creed and lasted from 1976 to 1983. Theirs was a sound that defied categorization; the best one could do is make note that it was mechanical, electronic, and often indescribable. Though the original duo would split in the early 1980s, Read more
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Yesterday I spent time listening to Double Trouble, a collaborative album between Johnny Paycheck and George Jones. If one is being generous, they might say the album is merely okay, when the truth is a little bit harder to swallow: the album just isn’t very good. It doesn’t help the album’s case that the version Read more
The Recoup 