Get your big suit on and join me, Dr. Z and Michael Parr for the latest episode of the Blerd Radio podcast. In this installment, the three of us are talking about 1983’s Speaking In Tongues, the most commercially successful studio album by new wave legends Talking Heads. A million-seller, Tongues was an MTV favorite that spawned the quartet’s only top ten pop single, “Burning Down The House”. It also spawned a host of warmly remembered songs that have become […]
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Blerd Radio Presents The Jheri Curl Chronicles Podcast (Episode 10)
1982 was the year of Marvin and “Sexual Healing”, but as you’ll hear in the latest JCC podcast episode, his former label mates Diana and Stevie didn’t do so bad, either.
bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’70s: Part Seven
No list of the Seventies’ best albums is complete without Pink Floyd, right? Well, we got two of their albums here!
bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Best Albums Of The Eighties (20-11)
The Top 20 of our countdown is here! Classic ’80s albums from Run-DMC, Talking Heads and U2 appear in this portion of the list.
bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Best Albums of the Eighties (60-51)
We conclude the first half of our ’80s list with classic albums from Talking Heads, Living Colour, and our cover men, Run-DMC.
bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Best Albums of the Eighties (90-81)
How about some hardcore? Black Flag’s “Damaged” is in our next installment of the ’80s’ top 100 albums. Find out who else made the cut!
Tom Tom Club Brings Their “Genius” to Boston
It’s not very often that you get a front-row seat to rock and roll royalty, which is why I jumped at the chance to see Tom Tom Club when I heard that their tour was rolling through Boston. While the average person may only remember TTC from their 1982 classic “Genius of Love”, the truth is that even though commercial success has eluded the band since their debut, they’ve gone on to record four additional albums. Of course, we can’t […]
The Valentine's Day Mix
As much as I sometimes try to forget the existence of this day, I’ve already been hit with several reminders that it’s Valentine’s Day in the past hour alone (and it’s only 9:20 in the morning). So I figured that instead of being a scrooge, I’d share some of my favorite love songs with you. These are songs that perfectly explained things that I’ve felt at times that I was in love (as opposed to just wicked horny), and songs […]