If you’re fascinated by alternate versions of the same album, The Golden Age of Wireless is the record for you.
From The Stacks: Thomas Dolby, ‘The Golden Age of Wireless’
From The Stacks: Bert Sommer — ‘We’re All Playing In the Same Band’ (White Label Promo)
Now here’s a record with a story; well, two stories.
190. The Baptism
Theresa and I immediately became work buddies. We’d stock the cassette wall together or straighten the video shelves, and time melted away like clocks in a Dali painting. I pissed away the […]
178. Truth and Soul
Most afternoons found my buddies Pat, Ken, and me hiding in Music Plus’s stockroom, throwing thumbtacks at the cork bulletin board. The tricks to winging a tack are: A) make sure it’s […]
Deep Cuts: Eighties One Hit Wonders
Every decade has its one-hit wonders. I just happened to be the right age to be aware of those acts who hit the top forty during the eighties, never to climb those […]
43. A One-Way Ticket, Only One Way To Go
Foreigner is one of those tragic victims of the Keyboard Eighties. Why so many Sixties and Seventies survivors felt the need to change what worked for them escapes me. I blame some […]
Why It Matters 