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There are people out there who can’t get past the fact that Led Zeppelin covered old blues songs, as if playing other people’s songs is such a preposterous crime or such a rarity. Excuse me, Alien Ant Farm’s BIGGEST hit is a cover. Led Zeppelin’s biggest hit is an unwieldy eight-minute opus that isn’t even […]
100 Mikey Dread – “Positive Reality” . This was a really impressive arrangement I thought from the big, sophisticated sax part and the honest, raspy-voiced lyrics: Mikey Dread comes at us out of Jamaica, ’70s and ’80s and seems to always somehow get brushed under the carpet of fame, recommended to me thankfully by a […]
Spotify playlist .. Very few bands, I think, sum up the SPIRIT of the ’80s better than XTC, who arguably did their best work with albums like English Settlement and Mummer, veering from punk into a sort of surreal, distinct contemporary pop. I put this list together pretty off-the-cuff and definitely still consider myself by […]
Now, it might seem sort of redundant, employing the term “classic oldies,” but friends, there was a barbaric scourge of lots of this material about 10 years ago, when someone at the iHeartMedia [1] control towers altered the “oldies” format from Motown and ’60 jingles to almost like half butt-rock, with some Elton John thrown […]