The SFB

Random musings from a Gen X life lived on the edge… of nothing except Lake Erie. 70s and 80s pop culture and music.

vinyl records, radio in the 70s and 80s,

  • The PERFECT Song X2- Blinded By The Light

    The PERFECT SONG cover! A song that whenever I hear it, either version, it just makes me so, so intoxicated!  Way before I ever heard of Bruce Springsteen I remember hearing Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band when I was a kid.  I didn’t discover Bruce until I was probably in 8th… Read more

  • More musical perfection from 1986

    Robert Palmer and Addicted to Love May, 1986. Robert Palmer and five red lipped beauties. That beat. Those lyrics. Yeah, I’m talking about a hot, hot, hot PERFECT song that peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 3, 1986 and spent a week there. Addicted to Love. What. A. Fucking. Great. Song.… Read more

  • Remember the thrill of buying records and listening to your favorite song on the radio?

    An adjacent topic that’s not about Benjamin Orr! All of the internet reading and researching I’ve been doing tracing the history of The Cars lately has got me thinking about the music landscape, concerts, and how much things have changed in the last- almost fifty- years since I really became cognizant of the power of… Read more