Tag: music

Yeah, so it’s not a song, but I feel that 102.1 in Toronto—CFNY—needs to be included. There were a ton of songs I never bought (I mean, even when I had a job, I had limited funds!) that I loved, Read more…

My memories of high school concerts—which I feel is unreliable—includes Teenage Head, and I think—but am not certain—that I had the single “Let’s Shake.” I am on much firmer ground with “Some Kinda Fun.” I have to give props to Read more…

Adam Ant, formerly of the Ants  . . . And the Ants. Whatever. By the time I had clued in, he had left the Ants behind Let’s get this out of the way—appropriation. Yup, no doubt about it. He shouldn’t Read more…

Before Duran Duran became stadium-filling, teen idol, superstars, they were perhaps the first new romantic band that really made an impact on me. It was funny, back in 1982, when I was just coming into the FM radio orbit, leaving Read more…

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…