WWF Full Metal was one of the cassettes I wore out as a wrestling-obsessed kid, and 30 years later, it still holds up. From Thorn in Your Eye and Psycho Dance to Razor Ramon, Bret Hart, Undertaker and Shawn Michaels, this album captured everything great about mid-90s WWF entrance music.
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This week on Melody Monday, we look back at Spice Girls' debut album Spice, the first CD I ever bought, and why the album is top heavy outside its three big singles.
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Launching Melody Monday with a look back at Barenaked Ladies' Stunt, a front to back great 1998 album that shaped my early teen years.
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Sometimes you don't need your phone. The AGPTEK A02 is a $20 MP3 player that stores thousands of songs, runs 40 hours on a charge, and stays out of your way. Here's the full review.
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In the grand scheme of music history Richie Valens, or Valenzuela (Lou Diamond Phillips) was a minor figure in music history, and his biggest claim to fame is that he died in the same plane crash that took the life of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, but his story is such a great little slice of the American dream that it makes for great cinema. This movie opens, and is frequently interrupted by apocalyptic visions of death via a falling plane that puts a cloud of gloom over the entire…
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When it comes to music I am a bit all over the place. There have been times when I really dug me some old school Frank Sinatra, although for the most part growing up so many generations removed a lot of his music is a little hard to resonate with, listening with modern ears. That said, good stuff the “Wee Small Hours of the Morning” stuff for instance is as timeless now as it was when it was first recorded. As a documentary I wish there was a little more about the music as well as the man, but…
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HBO for the past few years has had a very cool way of doing musician biographies, using old footage and interviews, and other direct sources from the people in the spotlight to tell their own stories. I have seen both the Rolling Stones, and Sinatra’s documentaries, but of all of those, Kurt Cobain’s “Montage of Heck” is by far the best, and has the most interesting material to work with (in terms of the life story, not a musical judgment mind you). Brett Morgen has produced a near masterpiece…
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Jules reviews the HBO/BBC documentary "Crossfire Hurricane" chronicling the fifty year history of The Rolling Stones. Is it a documentary worth watching? Read the review to find out.
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