When most people think of “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams”, they think of the smash hit from Green Day off the American Idiot album. Not me! When I think of this song title, I think of the rockin’ little ditty from a lesser-known 80’s hair band, Hanoi Rocks. Music fans usually know very little about this hard rock band from Finland except for the fact that their drummer Razzle was killed by Vince Neil of Motley […]
Bars and clubs all across the country promote their 80’s nights every weekend. As a fan of 80’s music, you would think I would want to hit the 80’s nights and enjoy the sounds. You thought wrong! Because the dim-witted DJ’s refuse to play anything out of the ordinary because the paying customers don’t want to think outside the box. We’ve all been reading Mike Heyliger’s outstanding Infatueightes countdown to know there are more than […]
(This is the first of my weekly blog posts spotlighting great tunes that are tough to find on compilation CDs, on itunes, etc. As a music aficionado with a weird taste in obscure music hits from the 70’s and 80’s as well as movies and TV themes, I’m always searching for these hidden gems that bring me back to my childhood. I got Mike Heyliger beat at the moment with 21,776 tunes (Editor’s note: showoff!!). I’d say there are about 800-1,000 of these nuggets in my collection which I plan to write about each week. Enjoy!)
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