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I Love that Album! #3: Klaatu’s Sir Army Suit (1978)
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio “We all rose to the challenge,” Terry Draper says about “Calling Occupants (Of Interplanetary Craft),” Klaatu’s momentous signature song that opened the band’s debut album, 3:47 E.S.T., but he might as well have been referring to Sir Army Suit, the Canadian trio’s triumphant third album, released in August Continue reading
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I Love that Album! #2: The Roches (s/t) (1979)
by Alan Haber It seemed to fall from out of the sky, so different was it from everything else, its descent to earth slow and determined and harmony bound, as if protected by angels who knew that it was a gift from heaven. So it was, and on into the marketplace it went. The Roches, Continue reading
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I Love that Album! #1: Fountains of Wayne’s Utopia Parkway (1999)
Fountains of Wayne | Utopia Parkway (Atlantic, 1999) by Alan Haber If Frank Capra had made a movie based on the songs populating Fountains of Wayne’s Utopia Parkway album, he might have called it It’s a Mundane Life. For 14 songs, Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood explore the normal, everyday concerns of a population of Continue reading
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