Hey Hey Hey! Five funky fresh tracks for you to enjoy, hypem verified to be Bass Riot scoops. And dig the groovy new on-blog player! Tags: Chris Carter , Fine Cut Bodies , Happy Murder , Madox , Dopamine , Simian Mobile Disco , Simon Baker , The Body Snatchers , Blende
In wake of the cultural and social upheavals of the 1960's, it became a common enough practice for popcult entertainments to acknowledge, if only grudgingly, the heightened awareness of egalitarian principles that permeated the era. Not surprisingly, this trend resulted in a number of stories where ostensibly laudable sentiments were presented (intentionally or not) in the most gratingly patronizing or condescending manner imaginable. Which brings us to "The Powderpuff Run" from Hot Wheels #4 (September-October 1970). As the title suggests, the series was a licensed tie-in to Mattel's popular line of die-cast toy cars, which also [...]
Speaking from experience, longing for the simple domestic charms of married life does not tritely equal "wanting to be a housewife" for a passionate warrior woman. There are many similarities between the Mister Miracle/Big Barda relationship and the Andrew/Maura one. (I didn't have a megalomanical New God for a foster father, but my real dad combines the creativity of Colonel Kurtz with the people skills of Machiavelli . Maura wasn't raised in a brutal orphanage on a hell world , but she did attend Medford public schools...which is a harsher fate in [...]
Soundtrack From The Movie Dance Craze I've never been a big ska fan and I think the genre peaked in the early 80s. So this soundtrack find was cool for me. Dance Craze is like the Urgh! of Ska movies, and has a lot of great live cuts that aren't available anywhere else. The CD version has some more songs than this vinyl one, but it also doesn't have any tracks by Madness, and I'd rather have the latter than the former. The tracks are listed in their original track order, which is why the bands are a [...]
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