Tag: music

This one is all my sister’s fault. She was the one who got the Go-Go’s first album, Beauty and the Beat. I have come to learn that my favourite musical genre is power pop, and most of the songs I Read more…

I’ve already mentioned that one of the first albums I ever bought was Queen’s “Greatest Hits.” Part of that was because of Queen singles my sister had—”Somebody to Love” and “We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions”—but much more important Read more…

This isn’t the first Police single I remember, but it’s the first one I bought. I later ended up getting all the Police’s albums—and if I remember rightly, my sister had a few also. It was a year or two Read more…

Apparently, this song was only a middling hit in Canada—Wikipedia says its peak position was 56—but somehow I found it. And in 1980, that means I heard it on AM radio. This is a song that introduced me to a Read more…

Top 40 in Southwestern Ontario—basically, the area reached by Toronto AM radio—was really. . . eclectic. There was no other way I would have been exposed to Split Enz and “I Got You” any other way. The singles chart I Read more…

I had a paper route while I was in elementary school, so I had money. And while my mother ensured I saved, there was a lot that I spent. I spent on comic books, on going to the movies, and Read more…