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Weekly Rewind – The Pretentious Doomsday Clock Edition

Don_C — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:00:00 +0000

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 …

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

Don_C — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:11:03 +0000

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 …

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

Don_C — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:47:00 +0000

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 …

Weekly Rewind: Plant goes old-school

Don_C — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:50:11 +0000

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 …