Time for Another 80′s Party: More Songs That Did Not Get a Lot of Top 40 Love

My fellow Georgia fans:  Early indications are that 2011 is going to be a long and dismal season.  All the more reason for us to take a break from it all.  So come join me today and let’s have a big 80′s party!!!  (Those of you who hate Georgia or just don’t care, you are [...]

A Nostalgic Win: The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys is not a movie that I ever saw, and it is not one that I plan on seeing anytime in the near present future.  It is a horror-ish movie about teenage vampires in California who bite people and cause them to turn into Harold Camping.  There is enough craziness out in California [...]

Time for Another 80′s Party: Movie Stars Who Thought They Could Sing

It has been too long since we’ve done one of these.  So crank up your computer speakers and come on over to Joe’s blog and get crunk to the sounds of the best decade of music gone by:  the 80′s!!!!! Our theme today:  Movie/TV stars who thought they could sing. Can you imagine what it [...]

One and Done: Jono’s Guide to the Best 80′s Songs You’ve Probably Never Heard

Some of the best 80′s songs of all time are those that stayed in the lower decks of the Top 40.  Today our theme is “One and Done” as we take a look at some of the greatest one-and-done hits from the 80′s–songs that debuted into the Top 40 and only lasted for a week [...]

Music Review: Cori Moon, I Will Sing

If you have been around 7:22 or other similar church environments in the Atlanta area over the past decade, then you have more than likely been exposed to the vocals of Cori Moon somewhere along the line.  Here is one of the finest female vocalists in all of Atlanta–and now, after all these years, she [...]

A Nostalgic Win: The Psychedelic Furs, Forever Now

Forever Now by the Psychedelic Furs was one of my favorite albums back when I was in high school.  Okay, it was a few years old by the time I made it to high school–it came out in 1982 and I did not start high school until 1986–but I liked it just the same.  And [...]

Music Review: Coldplay, Viva La Vida

Viva La Vida is the long-awaited fourth album from Coldplay.  Released in 2008, this album comes three years on the heels of X&Y.  There have long been rumblings that this would be a different kind of Coldplay album, and when you listen you will see that this is true.  Though this album has its share [...]

Music Review: The B-52s, Funplex

So what do you call it when one of the premier party bands of the 80s returns after a 16-year hiatus sounding almost exactly the same as before, as if the passage of time had not altered them in any way?  Not a bad thing, actually.  There have been many changes in the world since 1992 when [...]

Music Review: Counting Crows, Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings

This is the Counting Crows’ first all-new studio album in six years, since Hard Candy back in 2002. This is a quasi-concept album.  It is divided into two halves, which are, as the title suggests, “Saturday Night” and “Sunday Morning”.  Lead singer Adam Duritz explains the basis for the concept as follows:  “Saturday night is [...]

Music Review: Neil Diamond, Home Before Dark

Believe it or not, Neil Diamond was the Justin Timberlake of his day.  He had the following of teenage girls who all considered him to be undeniably sexy; the only difference between him and Justin Timberlake was that he could actually sing. And then, a strange thing happened.  All those teenage girls and others who followed [...]