Archive for August, 2008
Farewell Mac & Ike
Damn. The very talented Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes gone in one weekend, both way too young as well.
Bernie Mac’s sitcom was criminally overlooked and mistreated by Fox, and for my money was a lot funnier than the likes of the mostly laugh-free The Cosby Show and Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and took similar [...]
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Tags: Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes, The Blue Nile
Ah, Chaka Khan. For a lot of people, she’s something of a punchline, given the repeated raptastic use of her name in her version of I Feel For You, but that would be selling her short. Way short, because for my money she might just be the greatest female vocalist of all time, back before [...]
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Tags: Chaka Khan, Mariah Carey, Rufus, Taka Boom, Whitney Houston
After a slack few weeks, and realising this is the 100th post (ta-da etc.) I’ve finally pulled my finger out and turned this blog into what it was supposed to be all along. A music blog. Not a kind of finger on the pulse crazy music blog with electroclash, the dopest bangers and all that [...]
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Tags: Ray Davies, Tahiti 80, The Kinks