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A recovered archive, still unfolding. These are historical entries from 2015–2020, preserved for Nick’s review.

55 storiesNEWEST MEMORIES FIRST

54 to 54Nov 21, 2019DAY 30

Whistle Down The Wind / If You Were Here

There are movies that always stay with you. We all have them. I can name at least 5 off the top of my head. None, however, can ever top Sixteen Candles. I can’t count how many times I have seen this teen…

54 to 54Nov 20, 2019DAY 31

Heroes

I was never really a fan of Bowie in the seventies during his androgynous days, and that’s primarily because of my own insecurities. I had the same issues with George Michael and Boy George at the…

54 to 54Nov 19, 2019DAY 32

Sweet Love

One of the last of the great eighties balladeers, Anita Baker gave us this beautiful pop ballad, a gift to the VH1 airwaves. Anita sways and moves, almost in a convulsive way, as she belts Sweet Love and…

54 to 54Nov 17, 2019DAY 33

Groove Is In The Heart

How do you talk about a song that has nothing much to it other than making you feel happy? That’s’ what I’m giving you today: the explosive debut dance cart single by Deee-Lite from 1990. Talk about a way…

54 to 54Nov 16, 2019DAY 34

Right Hand Man

The scratchy, earthy voice of Joan Osborne captured the populace with a song that provoked the Christians like poking a stick into a hornet’s nest, but from the same album, her debut, came a less popular,…

54 to 54Nov 15, 2019DAY 35

Sincerely Yours

Representing Freestyle is Sweet Sensation with Sincerely Yours. The late eighties presented us with this new form of dance music, and most of it sounded the same with a different voice here and a quirky…

54 to 54Nov 14, 2019DAY 36

Can't We Try

Once upon a time, I shared a house rental with three friends and every now and then there would be some unexpected, unknown company in the common living room when I’d come home. One time in particular there…

54 to 54Nov 13, 2019DAY 37

Don't Go / Situation

Welcome to the new wave eighties, ripe with gritty synthesized dance club songs brought to us (mostly) from Great Britain. Many bands ushered in this sound, but none as magnetic and kinetic as Yazoo, later…

54 to 54Nov 12, 2019DAY 38

Wild Wild West

Sometimes there’s a song that, while it’s current in the zeitgeist you hate it and want it dead, years later you hear it and realize you actually love it and can’t live without it. Presenting that song,…

54 to 54Nov 11, 2019DAY 39

Breathe

One of my top songs of this new millennium, Breathe by Anna Nalick is a romantic journal entry of patience and friendship. I think that’s why I identify with the song; it reminds me of all those late nights…

54 to 54Nov 10, 2019DAY 40

Keep On Movin'

Keep On Movin’ is sort of an anthem, ushering in the hopeful but scary nineties from the bouncy pop and aloofness of the eighties. Even within the video, the dancers in color seem to represent what is while…

54 to 54Nov 9, 2019DAY 41

Runaway

Irish sibling band the Corrs brought a unique sound to the nineties and even had a pretty big hit with Breathless, but the song of theirs that I love is Runaway. To me it sounds like romance, with the…

54 to 54Nov 8, 2019DAY 42

Dress You Up

Remember when Madonna wasn’t quite yet the biggest star in the world? It was the summer of 1985 and the uptights were up in arms over her Penthouse photo shoot and the writhing and wriggling wedding gown…

54 to 54Nov 7, 2019DAY 43

Before And After You / One Second And A Million Miles

Love, forbidden but unbridled. Imagine the beautiful misfortune of meeting the perfect human being, the one who completes you, at the absolute worst time in your life, the most untimely, the most…

54 to 54Nov 6, 2019DAY 44

Then Came You

This is one of those mid-seventies pop ballads that always makes me happy, and who doesn’t love a good, old-fashioned duet? Even if said duet is by one woman and five men? Before she was an infomercial…

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