Sometimes I forget I really love Big Country, like I forget I really used to love to play hide ‘n seek. But once I’m reminded of the fun times I used to have trying to find the very bestest hiding place (I was an awesome hider, but I hated the ‘seek’ part of the game), [...]
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I bought Yeah, It’s That Easy simply based on the name of the band and the cover of the CD. I was walking through Amsterdam Central Station in 1997 on my way to a party and ducked into a small branch of a CD chain store in the station. The cover artwork caught my eye. [...]
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For someone who’s actually not a one-hit-wonder, Sophie Ellis-Bextor is probably my very favorite one-hit-wonder ever. She may have had other songs in the charts, but this is the only one I remember seeing a lot of, and it was HUGE. In fact, the wikipedia tells us that “Murder On The Dancefloor” was Europe’s most [...]
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It’s quite a comeback. No matter what you think of her, her music or the never-ending drama that is her life. You gotta admit that it is impressive that only a year ago she was branded madder than a hatter, and now she’s back with what looks like another successful album and tour, aptly called [...]
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If you were born or a youngster in 1970s America and your parents were at all open-minded, former-hippies, progressive, or anything remotely related to anything smacking of equality between races or genders, then there is a good chance you had a copy of Free To Be … You And Me. I certainly did. And I [...]
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