One of my favorite things about summer holidays (besides no school, of course) was jukeboxes. All the beaches I visited with my family as a kid, always had a coffee place with video games, pinball machines, and a jukebox. And this also throughout the 90s, when those machines were actually growing out of fashion. Every morning at the beach I went through the same routine: ice cream, then one or two songs on the jukebox while playing video games or pinball (they had a gorgeous The Who pinball machine at some point. I’d give an arm to play it again). The Who’s pinball machine from the mid 90’s One morning, it was the summer...
MY MISGUIDING ANGEL
posted by Tony
Rewind back to 1993. I had read about 70s hard rock band Angel (you might remember them as those guys all dressed in white) and I got kinda obsessed. I really wanted to hear them, but their records were impossible to find in pre-internet days. I tried to order one at my local record store but...
IS THIS ALANIS OR RO...
posted by Tony
Well, this is not exactly your usual Alanis.You may or may not know that before selling a gazillion copies of ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Alanis Morissette had already released a couple of pop albums, reaching a certain degree of success in her native Canada. To brutally summarize, we...
WORST BOB DYLAN SONG...
posted by Tony
So, a legend, a girl singer, and a British actor walk into a movie set… If it sounds like I’m starting a joke, well, this is definitely a joke, but I promise I’m not the one who started it. The girl singer is Fiona, once married to hair metal producer Beau Hill. She has a...
NEW YEAR, OLD HABITS
posted by Tony
If you’re wondering how long it took me to buy the first record of the new year, well, it took less than three days. On January 3 I went downtown because, among other things, I wanted to check out an exhibit of soccer memorabilia. At the door, I found an outrageous number of people in...
DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR
posted by Tony
My favorite part of this record is the hype sticker on the cover: “Do yourself a favour, buy this record“, it says. And when I found it at a thrift shop I was more than happy to oblige. Rosie Vela’s only album (‘Zazu’) came and went without much fanfare in 1986,...