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Friday Throwback:Don’t Take My Mind on a Trip
I figured this would be an ideal posting, given it’s timeliness. Did you ever know that Boy George was down with the new jack swing? The Culture Club frontman scored a Top 5 R&B hit in the spring of 1989 with Don’t Take My Mind on a Trip, which was produced by producer-guru Teddy Riley (of Guy and BLACKstreet fame). This uptempo banger finds George lamenting a potentially unfaithful lover, but more interesting than the […]
Classics Revisited: Young Americans
By the time Young Americans arrived in the mid Seventies, David Bowie had already made a career out of being a chameleon. Switching personas the way some of us switch our underwear, he’d already created theatrical characters such as Ziggy Stardust and had gained a reputation as one of the more interesting rock stars of the time. So, with Young Americans, Bowie decided to do the next logical thing a rock star could have done […]
Infatueighties #57: Hands to Heaven
“Hands to Heaven” is light as a feather, from the slow motion synth arrangement to David Glasper’s gauzy vocals. The song’s haunting quality becomes even more apparent when you listen to the lyrics: “so raise your hands to heaven and pray/that we’ll be back together someday”. It’s hypnotic and beautiful.
In 1988, the year of George Michael, Breathe were one of the most successful British imports. Hands reached #2 on the singles chart, while two more […]