flashback

This music review is a dedication to my youth, the music I grew up listening to and loving. For some reason, I always add 80's music to my summer repertoire. The music from the 80's was able to get away with so many things that I'm not sure would cut it today. The top two that come to mind are, of course, all the synthesizers and all the ridiculous band names. I'm pretty sure there was a competition in the industry to see which band could produce the weirdest, most abstract name. Some of my personal favorite names include: Men Without Hats, Oingo Boing, Franky Goes To Hollywood,Kajagoogoo, Wang Chung, Echo and The Bunnymen, Fine Young Cannibals, and Bananarama. Sit back and enjoy this tasty gathering of 80's music.

summer sounds

Well it's officially summer today and that means it's the season for all those great summer sounding tunes. Next on the review, as per request from one of my biggest fans Staci, is Bob Marley. His music takes me away to a wonderfully relaxing place where I'm always in a hammock. Reggae in general incapsulates summer, but the music of Marley takes the cake. Marley died nearly thirty years ago, but remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread Jamaican music to the worldwide audience. His compilation album, Legend, released in 1984, three years after his death, is the best-selling reggae album ever (10 times platinum), with sales of more than 12 million copies.