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• Song of the Day #1,582: ‘Stork & Owl’ – TV On the Radio

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  Here’s a song from TV On the Radio’s great album Dear Science that tends to get lost in the mix. ‘Stork & Owl’ doesn’t have an easy groove like many of its counterparts. While most of the album is avant garde poetry that passes for dance music, this is avant [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,581: ‘Dance Hall Days’ – Wang Chung

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  I know even less about Wang Chung than any of the other bands I’ve featured this week. ‘Everybody Have Fun Tonight’ is the only song of theirs I can name off the top of my head. I had no idea that ‘Dance Hall Days,’ a song I really like, was [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,580: ‘Call Me’ – Blondie

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  For just about every band I’m featuring this week, I can name a maximum of three songs off the top of my head but after that I’m at a loss. For Blondie, it’s ‘Call Me,’ ‘Heart of Glass’ and ‘The Tide is High.’ I’d probably recognize a couple of others [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,579: ‘Save a Prayer’ – Duran Duran

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  In what’s emerging as a theme this week, I present Duran Duran, another 80s band that mostly escaped my radar when I was younger (and to this day). I loved ‘Hungry Like the Wolf’ but by appreciation of the British New Wave band pretty much started and ended there. It’s [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,578: ‘Private Eyes’ – Hall & Oates

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  Hall & Oates is another band that has eluded me over the years. I’m certainly familiar with their biggest hits — ‘Sara Smile,’ ‘I Can’t Go For That,’ ‘Kiss On My List,’ ‘Private Eyes’ — but I’ve never owned an album of theirs nor could I tell you much about [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,577: ‘Just Like Heaven’ – The Cure

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  I’ve completely missed the boat on The Cure, for better or worse. I know almost nothing about them apart from front-man Robert Smith’s resemblance to Edward Scissorhands and a passing familiarity with a few of their most popular songs. I certainly had no idea that the band had released 15 [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,576: ‘Stomach Vs. Heart’ – Barenaked Ladies

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  ‘Stomach Vs. Heart’ is the bizarre first track of Barenaked Ladies’ bizarre third album, 1996′s Born On a Pirate Ship. This song is a perfect example of the offbeat musical and lyrical sensibility that makes BNL such a love-them-or-hate-them proposition. Personally, I can’t imagine anybody hating them. But I guess [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,575: ‘Tramp the Dirt Down (Demo)’ – Elvis Costello

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  Today’s Random Weekend selection is similar to the Lucinda Williams track posted last Sunday — a raw, acoustic demo of an album cut. In this case the performer is Elvis Costello and the song is ‘Tramp the Dirt Down’ from 1989′s Spike. This is a song — in both its [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,574: ‘If You Were Here’ – Thompson Twins

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  Plenty of 80s songs were used in 80s movies, kind of by definition. But there aren’t many 80s songs that I immediately associate with certain films. Two that leap to mind are ‘Jesse’s Girl’ and ‘Sister Christian,’ both used to tremendous effect in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights. But of [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,573: ‘West End Girls’ – Pet Shop Boys

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  Given all of the sampling of 80s music done by modern rap artists, it’s refreshing to listen to an 80s song that was actually inspired by a rap hit. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the writers and performers who made up Pet Shop Boys, have said that their 1985 hit [...]
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