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FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #19: Stand By Your Manboobs

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONSÂ “You Little Fool” b/w “Big Sister” & “The Stamping Ground” (F-Beat Records UK #XX26, 1982)

“A pretty prime cut,” it says,Â etched in some unknown stranger’s messy handwriting on the inner groove of this imported 7-inch.Â I’d have to wholeheartedly agree, given the 3 great tracksÂ to which we’re being treatedÂ on this week’s edition of 45 RPM.Â International raconteur and talk-show host Declan MacManus needs no introduction, so let’s just dive right in, […]

By David Middleton|January 7th, 2009|News|10 Comments

FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #18: Born Sippy

STEALERS WHEEL “Star” b/w “What More Could You Want” (A&M Records #AM-1483-S, 1973)

Everybody knows Scottish folk/pop/rock duo Stealers Wheel’s Dylanesque 1973 Top-10 smash, “Stuck In The Middle With You,” a classic oldies-station staple even before that director included it in that movie. (Sense a theme here? Backtrack to 45 RPM #15. I assure ya, boys, it’s purely coincidental.) Fewer people, however, know about “Star,” the Wheel’s follow-up single, much less their brilliant 3-LP output. I’ll get […]

By David Middleton|December 29th, 2008|Mini-Reviews|15 Comments

Wax On!!!: The Poetics Go Digital

Some of you know David Middleton as the author of our Forty-Five Revolutions per Minute series. Each week, DavidÂ picks out a (usually reasonably obscure) 45RPM record from his collection and talks about it. What some of you might not know is that David is a musician himself, and spent a chunk of the late Eighties and early Nineties fronting the band Waxing Poetics. The Virginia based-group got some face time on MTV, toured the […]

By Money Mike|December 23rd, 2008|People|24 Comments

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