a blog for those who never gave up their turntables or records
’80s ROCK & BEYOND includes articles about the new music that people have been listening to for the past four decades. I am not one of those people, so there won’t be much here …
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WHO LIKES THIS SINGER? was the question on Quora that someone requested I answer. When I opened the page, there was no other information, but there was a link to another page somewhere on the Internet. So I clicked it and ended up on YouTube, where I watched the linked video and a few others.
What happened next is my answer to the question, “Who likes this singer? READ MORE
WAY BACK IN 1984, way back when people actually believed in “trickle-down economics,” I was living in Scottsdale, Arizona. I had succumbed to the ubiquitous peer pressure question of “Why do you live in the past when it comes to music?” and purchased a couple of albums by the Psychedelic Furs. While I thought the use of the word “psychedelic” in their name may have been ironic, I nonetheless liked their post-punk British rock-pop. READ MORE