I’ve stared at this album for about 15 minutes now trying to figure out what I’m going to start with, and I’m completely out of ideas. My research yielded no a single thing on the Doctor Demento-recommended "Totally Bananas," and the back of the album doesn’t help...
What does it mean that a band called Flash and the Pan sounds so fresh 37 years later? I have no idea, but I do know that Harry Vanda and George Young somehow released the best album of the '80s in 1979. Flash and the Pan was formed in 1975 by Vanda and Young, former...
In a way, "Keepin’ the Summer Alive"’s album cover may paint a better picture of the album then I ever could. The image of The Beach Boys in isolated stasis in a bubble surrounded by a rapidly changing world may be the single most potent image you could attach to this...
Preceding works of genius such as “David Hasselhoff Sings America,” "Night Rocker" is the debut album by American actor and lifeguard David Hasselhoff. Usually at this point I would start describing the album cover, but this record is a real exception to all the...
Mankind has struggled with many questions throughout our history. Why are we here? Why is there something instead of nothing at all? Why would a man in a sequin suit with long blonde hair try to look tough in a garden? Perhaps we will never truly understand the...
If you don’t know who Pat Boone is, imagine a group of marketing executives around a table in the mid 1950’s panicking. Elvis has just hit the scene, and they need to find a way to make money off this new image of the bad boy rock-and-roll star. The problem: Elvis is...
Welcome to the year 1979. Nickelodeon officially begins airing to the children of Buffalo, McDonalds introduces the Happy Meal, and three Toronto teenagers bond over their mutual love of "The Police." Mark Holmes, Joey Ciotti and Ray Bailey are playing gigs all over...
Where can we find the "Greatest American Hero?" This question has perplexed our society since the signing of the Constitution. Could it be someone you see on the news? Is he or she someone trying to make a change in their community? I have my own answer to this...
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