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Tag: quirk-enthusiasm

Quirk Your Enthusiasm (25)

By: Dan Fox

Thomas Dolby’s EUROPA & THE PIRATE TWINS. Unrequited love — or Brexit?

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (24)

By: Erik Davis

Tuxedomoon’s “Time to Lose”: a haunting layered confection of longing and regret.

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (23)

By: Drew Daniel

The Human League’s “Marianne”: the emotional stakes keep changing.

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (22)

By: Jessamyn West

Blondie’s “Hanging On the Telephone” — fuck this intermediated bullshit!

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (21)

By: David Smay

The B-52s’ “Dance This Mess Around” — a cargo cult for Bubblegum music.

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (20)

By: Tor Aarestad

Oingo Boingo’s “Little Girls”: Swiftian, or adolescent Hitler skit?

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (19)

By: Deb Chachra

Rough Trade’s HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL. It still sounds dangerous.

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (18)

By: Adam McGovern

Lene Lovich’s “Lucky Number” — squeaky, staccato, pioneering.

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (17)

By: Ingrid Schorr

Ian Dury’s “Clevor Trever” — “Got no right to make a clot — out of Trever.”

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (16)

By: Tim Carmody

Talking Heads’ “Life During Wartime” — a mantra for our paranoid days.

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (15)

By: Mimi Lipson

Dolly Mixture’s “How Come You’re Such A Hit With The Boys, Jane?” — a rebuke to phonies.

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (14)

By: Lucy Marie Sante

The Normal’s WARM LEATHERETTE — JG Ballard’s method, inscribed on the head of a pin.

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (13)

By: Anthony Miller

The Nails’ “88 Lines About 44 Women” — one of the great list songs.

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (12)

By: Molly Wright Steenson

Watching “Words” by Missing Persons — it felt like the future.

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (11)

By: Joshua Glenn

Tim Curry’s “I Do the Rock” — “I do the only thing that still/Makes sense to me.”.

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