80s music
The 80s were chockful of New Wave power ballads, synthesizers, drum machines, and no shortage of Madonna and Michael Jackson.
Some Bob Marley Favourites
Introduction Today (23rd September 2026), I took delivery of a Zippo copy of Bob Marley's first Island album, "Catch A Fire". This is now very difficult to track down unless you are willing to part with a lot of money. Check Discogs here:
By Mike Singleton đź’ś Mikeydred 5 days ago in Beat
Chirino:Portrait of the champion of Salsa
Wilfredo Jose Chirino better known as Chirino then Willy Chirino born in Consulacion del Sur,Pinar del Rio Cuba, a proud Guajiro Cubano or in other words a proud Cuban country boy. Willy was the only boy and his siblings three girls. Originally, Willy did not come from a musical family and yet he became legend and icon in Latin Music and music in general. Willy's life and childhood and life in Cuba was happy and calm and perfect. He became an expert horse back rider and he was also artistic with which he won art awards. Unfortunately, that ended when the regime destroyed the island and Willy's parents fearing what the regime was going to do their children sent Willy to America ahead of the rest of his family to America through a Catholic program called "Operation:Pedro Pan" which airlifted 14,000 children out and Willy was one of them. He spent one year before reuniting with his family.
By Revista Miko:XCI 7 days ago in Beat
Prince reigns at the 2007 NFL Superbowl half time shown
To me Prince's 2007 performance at the Super Bowl was the best performance of all time and I say not only because I am a lifelong Prince fan but also because his performance was the best ever and they are still talking about it. His performance was nothing short of supernatural and phenomenal. I don't remember which football teams were playing against each other that year but this Prince was the thing to remember and the only reason why I watched at all just to see Prince kick ass as he had always done and should still be here, May Prince rest in Power and Peace.
By Revista Miko:XCI 7 days ago in Beat
The Hall Of The Mountain King
Introduction Sasha Desideri used Edvard Grieg's "The Hall Of The Mountain King" for her Day Eleven (With Gaps) of 50 Days of Senryu Inspired by Music, and I mentioned how much I loved it as a kid and that it had been covered by the Electric Light Orchestra. In our chat on her piece, which you can check out here:
By Mike Singleton đź’ś Mikeydred 7 days ago in Beat
The first album that I have ever had…
In the late 80’s a radio station where I lived called 101.5 WPDH a now classic rock radio station held a contest at shop rite supermarket and they drew my name from a hat or a roller and I won the Cinderella album in 1988. For some time for whatever reason I couldn’t play it so years later I did play it and it had all the or some of their hits like “Gypsy Road”, “Don’t Know What you got till it’s gone” which was the power ballad that every Hair Metal band needed to have on their album, though these were the stand out hits from the album at least in my point of view.
By Revista Miko:XCI 13 days ago in Beat
MC Hammer : Rap and Hip Hop Royalty
MC Hammer was my gateway and initial exposure to the music of rap and Hip Hop and to him I say thank you and that is why Hammer will always be one of my favorite rap artists of all time and space. MC Hammer was the first and only rapper to my knowledge was dancing and rapping and basically giving the audience the show that they paid for. The song that I first heard was the immortal classic “U Can’t Touch This” which was the song that initially broke MC Hammer and gave his universal and crossover appeal.
By Revista Miko:XCI 13 days ago in Beat
New Kids on the Block
The New Kids on the Block were among my first exposure to music at all, a neighbor turned bully and tormenter I had was a NKOTB fan and that is and was the only good thing about her. Just to sidetrack for a minute nowadays anytime I see Perez Hilton I see this perra but that’s neither here nor there. Back to NKOTB I did like them not because useless liked them but because I actually did like them. They did have and still do have good songs such as Please Don’t go girl, Hangin Tough, The Right Stuff, Step by Step these are just a few of their biggest hits that come to mind as well as after their hayday they did put out an album in the mid 90’s with a single called “Dirty Dawg” which is a jam in it’s self. To me New Kids on the Block along with other boy bands like New Edition, Menudo, Boyz II Men were pioneers of the Boy Bands and I guess that you can count The Beatles as the earliest Boy Bands but with them all of the members played their own instruments and sang too.
By Revista Miko:XCI 13 days ago in Beat
The Milli Vanilli movie
Do you know that there is actually a biographical motion picture about the lip sync group Milli Vanilli? I must tell you that the movie is really well made. I enjoyed the movie very much. It was cool. Believe it or not the true Milli Vanilli that being the studio singers who provided the vocals for the songs that the duo who were the face had lip synced to produced the movie. I found the movie by chance on my television and i had to see it and also i want to say that i am glad i did too. If sometime you get the chance it would be worth your while to check it out.
By Revista Miko:XCI 14 days ago in Beat
Love You Till the End
The English Celtic punk band the Pogues came together in King’s Cross, London, England, in 1982. The founders were Shane MacGowen, Spider Stacy, and Jem Finer. The band fused Irish traditional music and punk rock influences. Other members added were James Fearnley and Cait O’Riordan. The band built their popularity with live shows in London pubs and clubs.
By Rasma Raisters17 days ago in Beat
