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Showing posts with label The Pretenders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Pretenders. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 07, 2020
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
A Firing Offense by George P. Pelecanos (Serpent's Tail 1992)
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I first met Karen in a bar in Southeast, a new wave club near the Eastern Market run by an Arab named Haddad whom everyone called HaDaddy-O.
This was late in '79 or early in 1980, the watershed years that saw the debut release of the Pretenders, Graham Parker's Squeezing Out Sparks, and Elvis Costello's Get Happy, three of the finest albums ever produced. That I get nostalgic now when I hear "You Can't Be Too Strong" or "New Amsterdam" or when I smell cigarette smoke in a bar or feel sweat drip down my back in a hot club, may seem incredible today - especially to those who get misty-eyed over Sinatra, or even at the first few chords of "Satisfaction" - but I'm talking about my generation.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Friday's Playlist #11
For that cheeky bastard, Reidski. A resumption of an ongoing series:
The Jam, 'Absolute Beginners' (Snap) Human League, 'Seconds' (Dare) Billy Idol, 'Dancing With Myself' The Pretenders, 'Message of Love' (Pretenders II) The Associates, 'Message Oblique Speech' (Fourth Drawer Down) The Passions, '(I'm in love with a) German Film Star' Dexys Midnight Runners, 'Plan B' (Too-Rye-Ay) Siouxsie and the Banshees, 'Love in a Void' (Once Upon A Time) Japan, 'Visions of China' (Tin Drum) Soft Cell, 'Entertain Me' (Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret)
Why 1981? Why not.
Update 11/11/ 22
I wish I'd picked a better Associates song. And what's the deal with picking that song by Billy Idol? Did I lose a bet?
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