Mikey counts down the hits…of 1980.
Posts tagged "The Police"
bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’70s: Part Three
P-Funk. Uncut funk. The bomb. We can’t have a best albums of the ’70s list without ’em.
bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Best Albums Of The Eighties (40-31)
Albums by The Pixies, The Police, Janet Jackson and Terence Trent D’Arby show up in the top 40 of our best albums of the ’80s countdown.
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: Happy Anniversary, MTV!:The Best Videos of the Eighties (20-11)
20. “Every Breath You Take” The Police (1983) Simplicity, ladies and gentlemen. Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers went straight for the heart with “Every Breath You Take”, their biggest hit single (and the #1 song of 1983, according to Billboard magazine). The greatness of this video is all in the incidentals-the shadows moving from one side of Sting’s face to the other, his standup bass, the way the video seemed to fit seamlessly with the quiet intensity of the […]
New Release Report 7/13/10: Too M>AI>NY Symbols
Whatever happened to letting the music do the talking? Yes, M.I.A., I’m referring to you. The set up for the Sri Lanka-born rapper’s third album (which is called “Maya” but is spelled out with some ridiculous set of symbols that I have no desire to replicate here) has been marred by a bizarre video and a flame war with a New York Times writer who decided to air out some…shall we say, inconsistencies in M.I.A.’s actual lifestyle vs. her artistic […]