Have you ever heard the song “Let’s Have A War” by Fear? (I wish it didn’t fit as part of a soundtrack of our time’s news cycle, but it does.)
Well then, you probably aren’t a giant fan of the cult classic movie “Repo Man” in the mid 1980s.
I lived in Sacramento in the late 1980s and I don’t ever remember hearing of Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers back then. In 1991 we moved to Pennsylvania and all of a sudden they were on the radio. I know they were from Pennsylvania but they deserved better exposure than that.
You *might* know Garland’s version of Wild in the Streets, or 96 Tears, but Mystery Kids was always my favorite.
I will admit I was never the biggest fan of The Clash. I liked them fine, and saw them as one of the acts on a Day on the Green in the Bay Area, but I own one album by them.
If you don’t know where or how Power to Believe fits into Thanksgiving, you go look it up and share it with family in a week.
If anyone asks me my favorite Pretenders song, “Waste Not Want Not” is probably going to be it.
One of my favorite instrumentals from my vinyl collection days. Astradyne, from the album Vienna by Ultravox, is pretty much dominated by synthesizers and a fantastic opening to the album.
Suzanne Vega made beautiful songs in the 1980s, none any more beautiful than Small Blue Thing.
George Winston passed away earlier this year. I will always be indebted to him for a couple of the great piano albums of all time.
My Mom passed away in 2001. Some music performers both make me miss her and make me feel closer to her. Nanci Griffith is DEFINITELY one of those performers