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Jheri Curl Special: Ranking Every #1 R&B Hit Of The ’80s From Worst To First (140-131)

by MJ on Sep 16, 2014 • 3 Comments

Spooky Electric wuz here.

Jheri Curl Special: Ranking Every #1 R&B Hit Of The ’80s From Worst To First (160-151)

by MJ on Sep 3, 2014 • No Comments

bLISTerd / Lists!

Get ready for Freddie…and Jermaine…and Stephanie.

Jheri Curl Special: Ranking Every #1 R&B Hit Of The ’80s From Worst To First (190-181)

by MJ on Aug 22, 2014 • 5 Comments

bLISTerd / Lists! / music / soul music

But Paul, I think I told you! I’m a lover, not a fighter!

Jheri Curl Special: Ranking Every #1 R&B Hit Of The ’80s From Worst To First (210-201)

by MJ on Aug 18, 2014 • 4 Comments

bLISTerd / Lists! / music / soul music

The bust has returned…scraping the bottom of our latest list.

Spin Cycle: Stephanie Mills’ “Feel The Fire: The 20th Century Collection”

by MJ on Oct 5, 2011 • No Comments

music / New Releases / reissues / soul music / Spin Cycle

Generally, I leave the reissue-oriented stuff to my brother Mike Duquette and his site The Second Disc , but occasionally, there is a compilation or reissue that catches my eye enough to want to write something about it. I’ve got to say, Hip-O Select has been killing it with the reissues of late. Pulling from the archives of Universal Music, the company that distributes (or has distributed) MCA, Geffen, Def Jam, A&M and Motown (among other influential labels), they certainly have plenty of source material […]

New Release Report: R.E.D.-Like Buttah

by MJ on Aug 23, 2011 • 2 Comments

hip-hop / music / New Release Report / New Releases / Pop Music / reissues

This week at your local record store (if you even have a local record store), there will be an epic battle. A rumble for the ages. On one side, multi-tattooed rapper Game with his long-delayed R.E.D. Album (a title that certainly has nothing to do with his Blood affiliation). On the other side, legendary pop diva Barbra Streisand with an album called What Matters Most: The Songs of Marilyn & Alan Bergman. OK, so maybe this isn’t really an epic […]

Stephanie Mills Returns with "Yesterday" Cover, New Album

by MJ on May 17, 2010 • 2 Comments

Blerd Appreciation / Michael Jackson / music / New Releases / news / soul music

You always remember your first crush… Mine was Stephanie Mills. I was 3 when “What’cha Gonna Do with My Lovin’” came out back in ’79. “Sweet Sensation” came out the year after, and I was smitten. There was something about the voice and the attitude that caught my interest. Granted, you can’t have much of a crush when you’re a toddler, but I wanted the little lady with the big voice to be my pretend girlfriend. We could sit around […]

The Disco 100: Uh Oh, The Record Skipped (#70-61)

by MJ on Mar 13, 2010 • 3 Comments

Lists! / music

Um-something weird happened. I’m doing something really nerdy with my iTunes library. Thanks to a tip I found in a comment section on Popdose (by the way, Jeff and Jason, I had a dream the other day in which we all moved in together-WEIRD), I have decided to update every song in my library that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 with it’s chart position. I did not realize that futzing around with my library was going to affect my playlist, […]