It’s Christmas Eve, and if you’re spending even part of your day at work, then I think you deserve at least a few minutes to enjoy a classic video. Happy holidays, everybody!

Chilliwack are a rock band from Vancouver, which is just down the road from the city with which they share a name. They were at their peak during the seventies and eighties, and this catchy number from 1981 was their biggest hit. Not bad, right? Although to be honest, half the reason I posted that […]

It’s been a pretty long week, you guys. Monday feels like it happened a month ago. What do you say we all get a little mellow with a video that was considered technically revolutionary when it was released in the eighties?

This is a blast from the past, although depending on where you’re from and how old you are, it might be completely new to you. It’s definitely not the sort of track that you would have expected to become a hit, but it did; there was a period back in the early nineties when it […]

I’m not usually a fan of Duran Duran, and lord knows these posts aren’t usually very topical. But if it’ll give us a lame excuse to talk about some of the more disappointing things that went down in the local media this week, then I’ll gladly make an exception on both counts. The latest on […]

A classic track from Drums and Wires, the third XTC album. It was released in 1979, just a few weeks before I was worn. “Making Plans for Nigel” is notable for being written by bassist Colin Moulding, as opposed to his more prolific bandmate Andy Partridge. Although he wrote fewer songs, he wrote more of […]

When you take a song by the Buzzcocks and hand it off to a band better known for hits like “She Drives Me Crazy,” you’re bound to wind up with something very different from the source material. Sure enough, the Fine Young Cannibals version of “Ever Fallen in Love,” which closes out their 1989 album […]

If you can’t get a kick out of this video, then I don’t know what to tell you. Not only that, but BTK were local boys; they may not have scored any major hits in the States or anything, but if you’re from Toronto and you’ve been around a while, you’ll remember a time when […]

Get ready, because you’re about to have this song in your head for the rest of your day. You’re welcome!

This song came up in conversation at the Garrison the other night, and Kate said that she’d never heard of it – which seemed odd for a person our age who grew up in the UK. Convinced as I am that I’d just done a really poor job of describing it, I thought I’d post […]