What could be better in the knownuniverse than alumni from the greatFrank Zappa band forming a new wavegroup? I can barely think of a single thing.Dale Bozzio was sexy and weird and provedshe could really sing, albeit eccentrically, her then husband Terry was about the greatest drummer in all of rock music, and Patrick O’HearnContinue reading “#803: M is for Missing Persons”
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#714: G is for Gang of Four
Maybe their only hit songcomes from the Songs of the Freealbum and has the rousing chorussung by the new bass player, Sara Lee, and a few other female voices, “I Love a Man in a Uniform,” while lead singer Jon King laments in the versesabout how girls aren’t paying him proper attention and so decides to jointhe armed forces. It’sContinue reading “#714: G is for Gang of Four”
#614: B is for Belew, Adrian
I’m a lone rhinoceros. There ain’t one hell of a lots of usleft in this world –Adrian Belew I hadn’t listened to this album in years, but as soon as I knew it was coming up, this lyric about the lone rhinoceros cameinto my head, unforgettable, pithy, clever. I just looked up “momur” on wiki-whatever.Continue reading “#614: B is for Belew, Adrian”
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