Mercury Rising
Today marks the 11th anniversary of my very first Monday Muzak post, and the first time June 2nd has returned to a Monday since that debut. This calls for a very special song for the occasion, and I...
View ArticleParty Like It’s 1949
Everything old is new again. Styles generally come back into fashion in 20 year cycles. And sometimes, even rock stars want to try something that seems out of character for them. Remember when David...
View ArticleNever Say Die
This month marks the 40th anniversary of one of the biggest cult movies of my childhood which still resonates with all 80’s kids these days. That would be… These guys… The Goonies kicked off the...
View ArticleLiving Doll
While my movie knowledge in general is pretty very limited, there are movies from the 80’s I’m quite intimately familiar with due to the incessant watching of them done by me and my sisters back in the...
View ArticleElectric Boogaloo
When my 8 year old self first started taking a real interest in music in late 1983/early 1984, one of the absolute biggest dance fads was breakdancing. Before hip hop would become commercially cool...
View ArticleCold War Revisited
The early to mid 1980’s music was dominated by two things: new wave and songs about the impending nuclear armageddon. Tensions between the United States and Soviet Union were never higher than they...
View ArticleRumor Has It
At the 1982 Grammy Awards (which of course, were actually held in 1983), the five artists who were nominated for the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance was a veritable who’s who of some of...
View ArticleAdventure Awaits
There are rock groups, and then there are supergroups. A supergroup is just a bunch of guys from better known rock bands who get together and decide to form a group of their own… usually never...
View ArticleLadies Night
One of those magical eras in music I will always hold near and dear to me is early 1984. After greatly enjoying the local radio station’s year end 1983 countdown, I began listening to Casey Kasum’s...
View ArticleBig Money
Just as disco continued to invade the early 80’s even after it turned into one of the most reviled music genres in the history of the treble clef, so was the 80’s sound still present in the early 90’s...
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