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Posts Tagged ‘80’s’
Survivor: Eye of the Tiger
982. The Eye of the Tiger. The (Chinese) Year of the Dog. Fast forward to 2010. The Eye of the (rather aged) Tiger. The year of The Tiger. This year, the Chinese New Year takes place on February 14th, so I am giving you all ample time to practice [...]
Queen: Flash Gordon
At the risk of my manhood, I am ready to admit I secretly like this movie. “Flash Gordon”, (did you know he is the savior of the Universe and King of the impossible) is a 1980 science fiction movie, based off of a comic strip, written in part by Lorenzo Semple, Jr. – the [...]
R.E.M.: Orange Crush
range Crush. That’s right, the Orange are going to crush Pitt today in their Big East College Hoops match-up, and I will be at the game to witness this. And with the Orangemen ranked 5th in the country and off to a perfect start to the season, would anybody dare disagree with [...]
U2: New Year’s Day
Could I have chosen a more obvious song for today than U2’s classic song, “New Year’s Day”? The song was the third track of their third album, War, and was released as a single in 1983. The song is written about the Polish Solidarity movement, and the anti-communist feeling that grew during [...]
Prince: 1999
The end of another decade – it seems like only yesterday we were partying like it was, actually, two thousand zero zero. Remember Y2K? That came and went as quickly as the millennium bug… a technological meltdown that created mass panic amongst the less technologically inclined of proportion of the population. Was [...]
Cliff Richard: Mistletoe and Wine
ere’s my attempt this Holiday season to give you a song that will annoyingly stay in your head for the remainder of the week. Sir Cliff Richard, born 1940, dominated the British music charts in the late 50’s and early 60’s, and then two things happened. The first was The Beatles. The [...]
The Pogues, Kirsty MacColl: Fairytale of New York
his is probably my most favorite Christmas song of popular culture. “Fairytale of New York” is an Irish folk ballad song by Anglo-Irish folk-rock group The Pogues, and features the British singer Kirsty MacColl. MacColl;s jovial vocals contrast sharply with the bleakness of Shane MacGowen’s – The Pogues lead singer and co-writer [...]
