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First Listen: Rob Thomas “Her Diamonds”
I, like everyone else, got sick of Matchbox 20 real fast. Hearing “Push†and “3 AM†at all hours of the day and night wore me to pieces. It got even worse when Rob paired up with Carlos Santana for “Smoothâ€, which won a bajillion Grammy Awards and was #1 for, like, a year. Then something happened.
Rob improved by leaps and bounds as a singer and a songwriter. Matchbox’s second and third albums were […]
Infatueighties: “Never Say Goodbye”
The year was 1987. I was in the 6th grade. A pimply geeky kid who was desperate to impress his friends but had no mack game.
Her name was Heather. She was sorta pimply and geeky too. And a little on the chunky side.
We were at the 6th grade dance. One slow jam had already passed (“You Got it All” by The Jets if I remember correctly), and I’d played the wall. I was determined to […]
First Listen: Teena Marie “Can’t Last a Day”
Underrated? Teena Marie is underrated as all hell. Pop fans that do remember will know her for 1985’s “Lovergirl”, but the California-bred singer has been a near-constant fixture on the R&B charts for thirty years now.
A protege of Rick James, Marie scored her first wave of hits on the Motown subsidiary Gordy in the late Seventies and early Eighties. Her buttery, emotional vocals created a couple of disco classics (“I Need Your Lovin'”, “Behind the […]