Tag Archives: 1992

REVO Remastering: A Young Person’s Guide To Ultravox

Posted on February 19, 2019 by

Ultravox: A Young Person’s Guide To Ultravox 2xCD-R [2018] Disc 1 [Foxx] Satday Night In The City of The Dead Slipaway Wide Boys My Sex Young Savage ROckwrok Fear In The Western World Distant Smile The Man Who Dies Every … Continue reading →

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30 Days: 30 Albums | Befour Three O’Clock – Happen Happened

Posted on September 19, 2018 by

I remember loving The Three O’Clock and seeing the Salvation Army album all over the place at every hip record store in the mid-80s and thinking “I really must get that some day.” <flash forward 33 years> I’ve been thinking … Continue reading →

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 26]

Posted on March 8, 2016 by

1999 [continued] With the popularity in my household of “Hours…” that year, the thought finally occurred to round up all of the Rykodisc albums that I did not yet have in order to get their bonus tracks, which were conspicuously … Continue reading →

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 17]

Posted on February 22, 2016 by

1991 [continued] There was one more Bowie CD for release in 1991, and I didn’t wait to find a used copy when it was released. In spite of my famous distance from “Lodger,” I was inspired to quickly bring it … Continue reading →

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A Young Person’s Guide To “A Tonic For The Troops”

Posted on January 5, 2016 by

One of the bands that were there from the beginning for me when the New Wave finally hit my ears were The Boomtown Rats. I had actually heard the song “Rat Trap” from “A Tonic For The Troops” played on the … Continue reading →

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Three British Bands That I Liked In The 90s: #3 – Suede

Posted on August 18, 2015 by

The third and final British band to make me a die-hard fan in the 90s just barely made their winning impression at the tail end of the decade. That was Suede, who, for those who remember correctly, actually debuted in … Continue reading →

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Rock G.P.A.: Simple Minds [part 34]

Posted on January 23, 2015 by

The release of “Real Life” seemed successful enough on the surface of things, but the album broke the band’s string of number one albums, with it only making inroads to as high as number two, thanks to a certain greatest … Continue reading →

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