Showing posts with label Seventies pop music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seventies pop music. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

They coulda been contenders: memorable and infernally catchy also-ran pop tunes

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Since I’m on the topic of YouTube frustration (see below), I want to put the spotlight on a YT poster who has done exemplary work sharing hi...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

“Tears on my Pillow and Ave Maria”: Dean Friedman’s “Ariel”

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Sometimes the mere mention of a song title will do it. I was moving through the threaded forums I visit that cover topics related to nostalg...
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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Power-pop for weekend consumption

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When the tedium of daily life is just a bit too much, mindless pop music is the best solution. Perhaps because I was a child of the Seventie...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

"I'm gonna make him penetrate, I'm gonna make him be a girl..."

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It seems like a century ago. I listened to the radio on my way to high school, a Catholic high school, a Catholic all-boys high school (if y...
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Friday, October 3, 2008

1979 wonderments

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Let's take a little weekend journey through YouTube music postings, and I promise I won't try and sound too old and cranky ("th...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

'70s one-hit wonders: cinematic wonderment

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I was super-thrilled to reconnect with this 1979 ditty, which has been playing in my mental jukebox now for the past three decades. The prom...

'70s one-hit wonders: some travelin' music, please...

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The band had a gimmicky name, the music had that pure-pop drive, and the song had a major hook (in fact some interwoven hooks, best kind) th...

'70s one-hit wonders: nothin' matters but the weekend

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I'll stretch the time-delineation here by one year, and include a 1980 one-hitter. The Kings doing their mighty "Switchin' to G...

'70s one-hit wonders: the peak of pop

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There are certain high points in the art of the '70s one-hit, but I'm going to avoid ”Billy Don't Be a Hero” (although it would...

'70s one-hit wonders, the first: catchy rhymin'

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I am glad that our local NYC oldies station, WCBS-FM, returned a few months back, but man, oh man, is there ever a lack of Seventies one-hit...