End Of The Century presents:
1985 “I believe they make me out to be something more sinister than I really am.” (L.J. Hosts)
- R.E.M., Tom Waits and Nick Cave were each in the middle of a brilliant string of albums;
- Sting went solo and adult-contemporary AF;
- Phil Collins “gifted the world” with “Sussudio”;
- Prince actually gifts the world with “Raspberry Beret”;
- Whitney Houston debuts with her self-titled hit factory;
- David Bowie is the first major artist to have his entire back catalog converted to CD;
- David Lee Roth leaves Van Halen;
- Roger Waters announces that Pink Floyd is “a spent force, creatively”
- Michael Jackson outbids Paul McCartney to purchase the publishing rights to The Beatles back catalog for $47MM;
- And lest we forget, self-important virtue-signaling is finally given a theme song with “We are the World”.
El Jay End Of The Century January 16th, 2021
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: 1985, einsturzende neubauten, jesus and mary chain, prefab sprout, talking heads, the cure, the fall
End Of The Century presents:
Crazy people walkin’ round with blood in their eyes, and all LJ wants to do is dance, dance, dance (to songs from 1984)
Crazy people walkin’ round with blood in their eyes
And all LJ wants to do is dance, dance, dance
Wild-eyed pistols wavers who ain’t afraid to die
And all LJ wants to do is
And all LJ wants to do is dance
And make romance
LJ can’t feel the heat
Comin’ off the street
LJ wants to party
LJ wants to get down
All LJ wants to do is
All LJ wants to do is dance
In the local disco lounge
And all LJ wants to do is dance, dance
To keep the boys from sellin’
All the weapons they could scrounge
And all LJ wants to do is dance
El Jay End Of The Century November 7th, 2020
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: 1984, don henley, talking heads, the cars, the replacements, wham!
End Of The Century presents:
L.J. bogs down into the mire that is 1983!
Today, from 3 to 5 p.m., L.J. hosts End of the Century!
When L.J. last hosted, he stopped at 1982, so this show is going to be all 1983!
1983 is a fascinating year for music as we see the pop landscape fragment into a lot of different directions and new genres develop their tropes. Some of the heavy hitters in 1983: #Eurythmics! #Madonna! #Metallica! #NewOrder! #ZZTop! #ThePolice!
El Jay End Of The Century September 12th, 2020
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: #Metallica, bad brains, duran duran, Eurythmics, GARY NUMAN, huey lewis & the news, jackson browne, Liliput, madonna, mark stewart & the maffia, naked eyes, new order, real life, talking heads, the leather nun, the motels, the police, tom waits, violent femmes, zz top