Category Archive: Weekly Rewind

Feb
01

Weekly Rewind – The Pretentious Doomsday Clock Edition

Remember the good old 1980s when the United States and the Soviet Union could have blown each other, and the world, to kingdom come?  How wouldja like to hear a song about it? In 1985, Sting was in the early …

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Jan
27

Weekly Rewind – The “Two Degrees of Al Green” Edition

Talking Heads’ excellence as a band didn’t translate into many hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.  Only “Burning Down The House” made it into the Top 10 in late 1983.  Perhaps it was the success of that song that …

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Jan
06

Weekly Rewind: The “Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Da-Doo-Doo” Edition

It was this week in 1991 that an unlikely hit record made its way to number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. Susanne Vega originally recorded “Tom’s Diner” on her 1987 Solitude Standing album as an a capella …

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Nov
25

Weekly Rewind: Plant goes old-school

In November of 1984, the charts we’re dominated by Wham!, Chaka Khan, Hall & Oates and Lionel Richie.  Among this somewhat varied crowd was a single that stood out…one that sounded like it belonged on a radio station of 25 …

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