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| The
Waitresses Best of the Waitresses 1990 Polydor Records |
No
Guilt I Know What Boys Like Wide Up Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? Heat Night Jimmy Tomorrow Christmas Wrapping |
Bread
and Butter Square Pegs The Smartest Person I Know A Girl's Gotta Do Make the Weather Thinking About Sex Again Bruiseology They're All Out of Liquor, ..... Let's FInd Another Party |
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| The 'other' Akron band that made it big in the late 70s / early 80s. | ||||||||
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| Wall
of Voodoo Call of the West 1982 IRS Records |
Tomorrow Lost Weekend Factory Look at Their Way Hands of Love |
Mexican
Radio Spy World They Don't Want Me On Interstate 15 Call of the West |
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| The
classic 'Mexican Radio' is the only memorable thing about this record, at
least as far as the general public is concerned. Shame, too, because Stan Ridgeway can sure offer up some great but weird tunes. |
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| Wanderlust Prize 1995 RCA Records |
Wanna
Feel New Prize I Walked Troubled Man Sundial |
Coffee
in the Kitchen Before We Fade Deepest Blue Brand New Plan Stage Name Flash and Shadow |
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| Wonderful
band that came out big in 1995
then petered out almost immediately. What a waste, too. This is one of my favourite albums, despite its (at times) overwhelming sense of melancholia and seriousness. Pop that makes ya think, I guess. |
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| Roger
Waters The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking 1984 Columbia Records |
4.30
am (Apparently They Were ......................... Travelling Abroad) 4.33 am (Running Shoes) 4.37 am (Arabs with Knives and West ............................. German Skies) 4.41 am (Sexual Revolution) 4.47 am (The Remains of Our Love) |
4.50
am (Go Fishing) 4.56 am (For the First Time Today, Part 1) 4.58 (Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin) 5.01 am (The Pros and Cons of ...................... Hitchhiking, Part 10) 5.06 am (Every Strangers Eyes) 5.11 am (The Moment of Clarity) |
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| The
Pink Floyd frontman's
debut solo album, and a very good one at that. Supposedly, the concept for
this one is a dream of the protagonist, searching for the meaning of . . . something. Probably life. Anyway, you do get that twilight, dreamlike feeling when listening to this album. Oh, and also reportedly recorded using a new technology called 'holophonics' or 3-D sound. Hmmm. |
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| Watershed Twister 1995 Epic Records |
You
Need Me Nightshade How Do You Feel If That's How You Want It Twister Youth is Confusion |
What
Would I Need You For I - 65 I Deserve You Get Over Me Everywhere I Turn Sad Drive |
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| Great
little power pop / hard rockin' trio. Some great stuff here and some predictable
stuff as well. Overall, though, a very good record. |
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| Fee
Waybill Read My Lips 1984 Capitol Records |
You're
Still Laughing Nobody's Perfect Who Loves You Baby I Don't Even Know Your Name ................... (Passion Play) Who Said Life Would Be Pretty |
Thrill
of the Kill Saved My Life Caribbean Sunsets Star of the Show I Could've Been Somebody |
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| The
one and only solo album form the lead singer of The
Tubes. How and why he got hooked up with David Foster and Steve Lukather (Toto) is beyond me. Maybe that answers the question as to why this was the only solo album Fee ever made. |
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| Wild
Horses Unbroken! 1981 Agora / Generic Records |
You
Won't Get to Know Me This Crazy Feeling I Deny Everything You Won't Be Sorry Funky Poodle |
Carbona
Mona Send Me Away Someday Sandy My Life is a Mess |
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| Another
sampling of early 80s Power Pop, North Coast-style, this time from Cleveland.
Novelty hit with 'Funky Poodle' that I hated with every fibre of my being at the time (1981). Now, I don't mind it all that much. |
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| The
Willies The Willies 1991 Mental Giant Records |
The
Keys to the Car She Doesn't Even Know I'm Alive Look Before You Leap Too Much On My Mind Jenny Says Shrinking Violet A Dream is a Good Place ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... to Start |
Don't
Wreck My Buzz I Am Slime Hand to Mouth Vibin' A Universal Thing New Way of Thinking |
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| Roger
Klug's brainchild, this Cincinnatti duo recorded some great pop-rock
tunes. With only a drummer in tow, Klug played all the other instruments here - the fascinating thing is when they played live, Klug sang while he and the drummer played along to a recording of the bass and keyboard tracks. In 2000, Akron's Skin Machine did the very same thing to great success. |
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| Brain
Wilson Smile 2004 Nonesuch Records |
Our
Prayer / Gee Heroes and Villains Roll Plymouth Rock Barnyard Old Master Painter / You . . . . . . . . . Are My Sunshine Cabin Essence |
Wonderful Song for Children Child is the Father of the Man Surf's Up ______________ |
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| I'm
in Great Shape / I Wanna ..... Be Around / Workshop Vega-Tables On a Holiday Wind CHimes Mrs. O'Leary's Cow In Blue Hawaii Good Vibrations |
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| THE
Holy Grail of rock 'n' roll finally released! Wilson had been touring
the last few years performing The
Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album with the help of a fantastic band called Wondermints. After the success of these tours, Wilson finally screwed up the nerve to re-record his landmark Smile album. Okay, so his vocals aren't as crisp as they were in 1967 - it was almost 40 years ago, for crying out loud! |
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| Wire
Train Ten Women 1986 Columbia Records |
While
You See a Chance Arc of a Diver Second-Hand Woman Slowdown Sundown |
Spanish
Dancer Night Train Dust |
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| After
leaving Traffic, and Blind
Faith crumbling into the dust, Steve Winwood put out a forgettable
album in the late 70s. So forgettable, I don't even think avid collectors want it. Then he released this masterpiece in 1980. One of my desert island discs, there isn't a bad tune in the bunch. Definitely a must have. |
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| Wreckless
Eric The Whole Wide World 1979 Stiff Records |
(I'd
Go the) Whole Wide World Take the Cash (K.A.S.H.) Let's Go to the Pictures Walking On the Surface ..... ..... ..... ..... of the Moon Hit & Miss Judy I Wish It Would Rain |
Reconnez
Cherie Veronica Brain Thieves Semaphore Signals I Need a Situation The Final Taxi |
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| One
of the first Stiff Records artists. Great late 70s pop tunes that
helped create New Wave and Power Pop. |
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