Popdose (Free subscription) | yesterday
Imagine my surprise when I visited my then-girlfriend – anyone who read my Valentine’s Day piece knows her well – over Christmas break in 1992, and in her car was the soundtrack for Cool World. Her taste in music…well, let’s put it this way: she needed lots and lots of guidance. Before we met, her [...]
kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
As musically lost in the '80s as I am, even this Howard Jones wannabe can admit what's age well (The Pretenders' debut) versus what hasn't (KajaGooGoo's "White Feathers"). So when my friend Greg asked me if I wanted an extra copy of the reissue of "Into the Gap" by the Thompson Twins he'd wound up with, I wasn't entirely sure it was worth the shelf space in my humble Chelsea abode. In the end, he sent...
Lost Highway (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
“The Russian Chernobyl Dance Class gets their groove on.” When I was a pre-teen, one of my regular weekend hangouts was the local skating rink. Donning a pair of smelly, rented roller skates, I’d awkwardly traverse the infinite circle of wood floor paneling, while songs from the likes of Pat Benatar and the Thompson Twins blared in my ears. “Hit [...]
Ramdom Thoughts podcast (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
TRACK LISTING VISIBLE ON ALL IPODS & IPHONE. TAP ON ART WORK ON THE IPHONE WHILE PLAYING . If you would like to contribute towards the cost of the show (whatever you can afford), click this text and again on the Make a donation button via the right hand side to pay via Paypal. You can post [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Youssou N’Dour - 7 Seconds (Duet With Neneh Cherry) from 7 Seconds: The Best Of (2004) Yes - Love Shine from Open Your Eyes (1998) Willy Porter - Infinity from Falling Forward (1999) Eric Clapton - Sunshine Of Your Love (live acoustic) from Live in New York 1992 (1992) The Doobie Brothers - You’re Made That Way from Livin’ [...]
Pod 'n' Vod (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Hopped up on the excitement of his impending trip to Las Vegas , Matt unintelligibly rambles to Magsy about messed-up Chiclets, and finds time to play some music. Songs by the New York Dolls , Marshall Crenshaw , the National , Thompson Twins and MORE. Welcome to episode 74 of PURE POD FOR NOW PEOPLE !
Halos Heaven (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Hold me now / in your lovin' arms / stay with me / Let Justin Speier record a Hold. F'n Thompson Twins....
Line Out (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
This Tom Bailey... Who is Tom Bailey? Remember the Thompson Twins? Remember the leader singer? That's Tom Bailey. 15 years after his brief but exciting career in pop, Bailey established a dub project called International Observer. The project's first release, Seen , has this as its significant achievement: an ambient dub that takes echo effects/art very seriously. Most ambient artists use echo effects...
Dictionopolis in Digitopolis (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
A 2001 documentary showed ex-Thompson Twins knocking themselves and being down on their hits. Which is a shame. They only made one of the one of the three greatest albums of the '80s techno-pop era (ABC & Human League made the other two). But I'm not going to post videos from that great album ( Into The Gap ) because you already know and like them (or don't) anyway. I wanna go for a couple more underrated...
A Socialite's Life (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
If we could all be a king for a day.
Cobb (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
A moral question. Are we obliged to do for people what they won't do for themselves? Only in our self-interest. This is something of a dodge of an intersting question posed by a thoughtful reader: Stephanie Saul's NYT article, “Cigarette...
Electroqueer (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
It's Wednesday. It's a beautiful day outside as summer seems to have hit the UK a few days early it seems. I love it. It seems like overnight all the trees have bloomed and the air got crisper too. It's...
The Big Blowdown (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Darren told me to do this, so I will: 1. What was the last 1980s song you heard? Thompson Twins with (I think) Love In Your Heart. It was playing in the gym as I was getting dressed this afternoon. 2. What was the last thing you saw on You Tube? Arthur Scargill - and please let me explain. Someone at work was astonished at the musical content at You Tube. He then bizarrely asked if you can "get things...
squeetus (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Every month the readergirlz focus on a different book, and this month its book of a thousand days! They had me answer a few questions, come up with a playlist for the book (it was fun to come up with--I...
electro^plankton (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
M83 is back again with a different sound from his previous works. Saturdays = Youth is a little Thompson Twins and The Cure so if you like the sound of that mash up, you'll love M83's latest. If you've got 10 bucks laying around and are in need of some new music, give this Frenchie a try. It really takes me back to the days of "Pictures of You" and "Just Like Heaven".
