Ep #13: Electric Light Orchestra’s “Out of the Blue”
The double album with a taste for far-out ideas. A name like Electric Light Orchestra is intimidating, and off-putting. This […]
Ep #12: Peter Gabriel’s “So”
Gabriel gets his mainstream success and then some. Peter Gabriel’s fans pre-So were a cultlike following. And what wasn’t to […]
Ep #9: Yazoo’s “Upstairs At Eric’s”
Synthesizers and soul? A mashup we can all support! To tell you that the synthesizers which had started to creep […]
Ep #6: ABBA’s “Gold”
Not the 24K variety, but better. When you think of huge international smash-hit pop/disco groups from the 70’s and early […]
Ep #5: Duran Duran’s “Rio”
Who’s this British boyband, and why do they matter? It’s 1982, and Duran Duran are the hottest thing since sliced […]
Ep #1: Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”
What makes the the best-selling album of all time so good? Michael Jackson has been hailed as “The King of […]