Back to more obscure stuff for the American-born audience, here is a guy who enjoyed a cult status when I was growing up. Aside from…
Following up on a comment by my good friend Artyom, here is an offshoot of one of my favorite Euro-pop bands, Modern Talking. Dieter Bohlen,…
Another one of my stand-alone favorites. I’m lukewarm about the movie, I’d be hard pressed to name another song by Bryan Adams that I know…
As a professed fan of The Beatles, I am actually quite lukewarm towards anything that the Fab Four produced in their solo careers after their…
Another one of my long-standing favorites. Curiously, I never bothered with any other songs by Stevie Wonder. The only other of his works that I…
Back to our regular light programming, here is one of my all-time favorites. For some reason, the strongest recollections of this song put me inside…
And now, returning to our regular programming, here is another of the discotheque favorites in my high-school DJ’ing time. Can’t think of any specific memories…
Come Together does not break into my 30 Favorite Beatles’ songs, but it has the distinction of being the very first song by the group…
Maybe not as popular as Modern Talking, German-based multinational pop trio Bad Boys Blue was a staple of our DJ playlists in mid-80’s. The two…
I’ve already offered a glimpse of Modern Talking in the retrospection of my musical affinities (and also posted this clip in other people’s blogs). But…
My first recollection of ABBA is linked with the song Happy New Year, likely because of that song having had a key part in some…
I’ve been a bit preoccupied at work this week – moving on to a different role, frantically extricating myself from the responsibilities of the old…
I’m not sure why I remember this song or what’s so great about it, but it was a famous European hit that got some playtime…
When I answered the “favorite song” question in the Photobucket meme (see #9), I actually chose my number two song. I think it is called…
Warning: Despite English narration, majority of the clips used in this post are in Russian. Three other European languages, besides English, are also present. I…
This song was my introduction to Billy Joel, whose groundbreaking USSR tour in 1987 paved the road for many other Western acts. By the whim…
Here is one of the less obscure favorites from my youth, which even reached #8 on the US charts in 1986. Having never been a…
I had to go through a periodic upgrade of some of the out-of-the-box components on my website, and it all went suspiciously smoothly today. I…
This song was hugely popular in Russia when it came out, for obvious propagandist reasons of exposing the truth about the mortal enemy. Ironically, the…
I remember when this video came out, how amazed we were with what then seemed a pinnacle of CGI wizardry. Compare it with what you…