Click here for #100-91 , #90-81 , and #80-71 ! #70. Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Get Happy!! Released: 2/15/80 | RIAA certification: none It’s more than “British white dude totally gets Motown”, and yet, it’s not. Approximating stomping pop-soul chestnuts isn’t necessarily a revolutionary idea, and it’d be easy for a seasoned, versatile rock ensemble like The Attractions to Xerox the sound without necessarily tapping into why we all love those records in the first place. And it’d be pleasant, and […]
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All You Need to Know About the Music of…Madonna
Doing a series on Popdose dedicated to the music of Michael Jackson got me to thinking. How many other artists (or bands) are out there whose entire discography I’m familiar with? Of course, there are always means by which you can familiarize yourself with an artist’s entire oeuvre, but there’s a handful of acts that I can pretty much go in on without having to do a shit-ton of research (or listening to bad albums), which is why the Popdose guides to […]