Introducing Harpers Bizarre (Sunshine Pop #2)
Exploring the archives of ’60s music continues to make me discover so many bands that I have never heard of before and whose music gives me so much delight. That the songs remain refreshing
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Gems beneath the Sunshine Mountain
In my late elementary and especially highschool days, the genre that became my number-one favorite was New Wave, and it remains to be so. Thinking about it–what really drew me to this kind of
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There Shines the Sun Again
(On ’60s Sunshine Pop) Like any other decade that followed it, the 1960s was an exciting time for catchy, melodic, often-orchestrated, and generally positively worded Pop songs that are also steeped with rich and
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Bigmouth Strikes Yet Again!
(Morrissey Set to Release New Album) Wow, Morrissey is really on a roll! He has just unleashed his last, 13th album last year–I Am Not a Dog on a Chain–and yet he is already
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New Record from the English Wild Boys
To this day, many think that Duran Duran was only of the 1980s and that it disbanded long ago. But the fact is, vocalist Simon LeBon and founder/keyboardist Nick Rhodes never left the band
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Got to Ultraspin Those Electrorecords Again!
(On The Dawn’s and Eraserheads’ Respective Debut Records) Two of the Philippine bands that I consider the most monumental, influential, and essential are The Dawn and Eraserheads. We were lucky to have been able
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Closer (Again) You and I
In 1987 Gino Padilla’s “Let the Love Begin” was released, immediately becoming a radio hit. I was in 4th-year high school. I was proud of it and was feeling secretly privileged. This is the
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How Much Time Do You Have?
(On Lengthy Progressive Rock Songs) Barring Classical, the genre Progressive Rock features many lengthy songs/instrumentals, which an ordinary music fan might find difficult to listen to. After all, typical Pop songs often clock in
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Great Records through the Decades pt. 3
(Pop) Last issue, we came up with a list of Progressive Rock-classifiable albums released in the previous decades. This time, I will introduce you to yet another list of albums that may, on the
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