Mapping Influences Over Time
I can’t quite remember how I stumbled across the Mash-Up phenomenon. I am fairly certain it was accidental. I am also reasonably certain that the song that started it was Rapture Riders. If you are not familiar with what a Mash-Up is, I’ll try to describe it for you. A Mash-Up is when somebody takes …
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My Blondie 45’s weren’t needed long. I snapped The Best Of Blondie out of the Columbia House catalog. I had Heart Of Glass and The Tide Is High and a whole bunch more that would become beloved Blondie favorites. Here again is a mystery. I really liked Blondie, why did I not have the urge to collect their …
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So here we are in the aptly named Academy Days era. The era names still maintaining that epic stylized quality. As before with the BFMS era, I’m going apologize for any chronological inconsistencies. The Academy Days officially covered the Autumn of 1979 through Spring of 1983. As we saw in the last post, Heart Of …
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It happened so fast. Like a flip of a switch, it seemed that Disco was gone. One moment I was in 8th grade Boogie-oogie-oogie-ing the next, I was in high school. I just realized that I left out a peculiar detail about myself. I had not grown even half an inch since third grade. I …
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