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Tag Archives: 2016
Monastic Music Mining: More Parenthesisdotdotdot? Yes, Please!!
A few weeks ago we discovered that Popmeister Tim Benton was active under a branding new to me, Parenthesisdotdotdot. But that’s only because I’m old and feeble. Actually, Parenthesisdotdotdot had been active for at least a decade and I was … Continue reading
Posted in Immaterial Music, Record Review
Tagged 2016, 2023, Parenthesis Dot Dot Dot, Tim Benton
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REDUX: Cucumbers Still Fresh 33 Years Later!
April 20, 2016 I vividly remember where I first encountered Hoboken band The Cucumbers. Back in 1986, I caught a fantastic clip on MTV’s 120 Minutes for the band’s wonderful cover version of “All Shook Up.” The Super 8 + … Continue reading
Rock G.P.A.: The Blow Monkeys [part 31]
[…continued from last post] 2016 brought unexpected news; Dr. Robert was planing on making a solo album. His first since The Blow Monkeys regrouped back in 2008. Like the last Blow Monkeys album, “Out There” was also crowdsourced on Pledge … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Rock GPA, Scots Rock
Tagged 2016, 2017, Blow Monkeys, crowdsourcing, Dr. Robert, Solo Album
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Billy MacKenzie Fandom In The Aftermath: It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst of Times [part 5]
Part 5: Death As A Career Move… The next seven or eight years following Billy’s death saw all manner of his recordings get a release from various labels and concerns. While MacKenzie was gone and would no longer create music … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Scots Rock, Surviving The 90s
Tagged 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2017, Alan Rankine, Associates, BillyMacKenzie
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Rock G.P.A.: Slow Children [part 6]
Slow Children – cottoncloud9 | 2016 – 3.5 (…continued from last post) The ticking hi-hats ping-ponging back and forth in the stereo field and acoustic guitars in the intro to “Thelma + Louise” were a deceptive cover for the most … Continue reading
Rock G.P.A.: Slow Children [part 5]
Slow Children – cottoncloud9 | 2016 – 3.5 (…continued from last post) Against all odds, the 21st century managed to cough up something positive along with the unceasing flow of calamity getting on my nerves. The third Slow Children album … Continue reading
Record Review: Simple Minds “New Gold Dream” Boxed Set Of God [part 5]
DISC 6 | Alternative Mixes, Roughs + Demos […continued from last post] The final disc was a revisit of the DVD-A that came out in 2005. I was lucky enough to have gotten a copy back then even though 5.1 … Continue reading
Posted in BSOG, Core Collection, DVD, New Romantic, Scots Rock
Tagged 1982, 2016, BSOG, New Gold Dream, Simple Minds
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