Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1987. I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from Okkervil River, Beachwood Sparks and Midlake.
Show notes:
Recorded via Skype
Brian: Birth of the cassingle
Inexpensive way to buy singles, B-sides
Brian: Collecting 45s for a jukebox
Jay: 1987 was big for female pop artists
Madonna, Bangles, Belinda Carlisle, Lisa Lisa, Heart
Older songs like "Stand By Me" were re-released
Young Brian bought his first album in '87: The Monkees' Greatest Hits
New Monkees TV show came and went
Jay: Made two top 5 album lists, Then and Now
Jay: Then list (#5 to #1): Def Leppard's Hysteria, INXS's Kick, Cult's Electric, Whitesnake's s/t and U2's Joshua Tree
Whitesnake was the hard rock version of Ringo Starr's All Starr Band
Brian's #5: George Harrison's Cloud Nine, despite Jeff Lynne's heavy handed production
Jay's #5: Husker Du's Warehouse, not their best but still pretty great
Incredible run of albums over a short period
Brian's #4: Prince's Sign o' the Times, maybe his last great album
Jay's #4: Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me; Westerberg's focuses on songwriting and less on aggression
Brian's #4: Tom Waits' Franks Wild Years; did Izzy Stradlin play on this album?
To be continued
Bonehead of the Week
Music:
Okkervil River - Stay Young
Beachwood Sparks - Make It Together
Midlake - Antiphon
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The Okkervil River song is on the album The Silver Gymnasium on ATO Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) on Goodbye Summer: ATO Records 2013 Fall Sampler at ATORecords.com.
The Beachwood Sparks song is on the album Desert Skies on Alive Naturalsounds Records. Download the song for free at Soundcloud.
The Midlake song is on the album Antiphon on ATO Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) on Goodbye Summer: ATO Records 2013 Fall Sampler at ATORecords.com.
The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.