N.P.| December 21, 2018| 0 Comments

Something’s Gone Wrong Again: The Buzzcocks, SINGLES GOING STEADY

  Look, I’m not gonna tell you Pete Shelley was sexually frustrated. I don’t and didn’t know the guy; how can I say for sure? He sure as hell knew how to capture the feeling in song, though.   The Buzzcocks’ stateside introduction, Singles Going Steady (really a compilation of singles that had been released in the […]

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N.P.| December 15, 2018| 0 Comments

This Ain’t No Disco: Talking Heads, FEAR OF MUSIC

  As a deep dive, Talking Heads are a bit of a late-in-life discovery for me. I’d been long familiar with the singles; as a child of the 80s, I was especially familiar with the big hits of the MTV era (“Once in a Lifetime” and “Burning Down the House” chief among them). It wasn’t […]

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