Jul
30

1983: Music For Twelve-Year-Olds?

Posted in Music, Retrovirus, Waxing Nostalgic |

By Less Lee Moore

Remember when you were old enough to like “cool” music but still young enough to shamelessly appreciate crappy music? For me, that time was 1983.
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Jul
30

1988: Perk Up Your Ears

Posted in Music, Retrovirus, Waxing Nostalgic |

By Latanya

I was only seven in 1983, so I wasn’t as musically aware as I was in 1988. Granted, by 1988 I was 12 and in the seventh grade, and I was much more expressive by this point. Thankfully, my ears were perked up higher so the following albums stuck out
from that year.
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May
30

Popshifter‘s Secret Garden of Crushes

Posted in Films, Music, Retrovirus, Television |

By Less Lee Moore

pizzazz
Pizzazz of The Misfits

WFMU’s Beware of the Blog is a fabulous resource for discovering music, movies, and art that I would likely never know about if left to my own devices. Sometimes, however, my favorite blog entries are the first-hand accounts of the often-perverting effects of pop culture.
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