Burl Veneer’s Music Blog Vox 2008-04-29T02:49:55Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4144aef1d3c7f/tags/whfs/ Songs I Like Lost 80s: Way of the West tag:vox.com,2008-04-27:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cf27b7c0003 2008-04-27T14:29:24Z 2008-04-29T02:49:55Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I've been saving up my Way of the West singles for eventual ripping; they were another English band who were a minor staple on the WHFS of the original new wave era, usually represented by their song "Don't Say That's Just For White Boys." I alwa...

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]]> Broken Land tag:vox.com,2008-04-23:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48d0fd3510001 2008-04-23T02:45:23Z 2008-04-23T02:45:23Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Adventures - Broken Land In Tua Nua - All I Wanted (1988)

I'm back from a non-blogging week in the sprawl of suburban Maryland with my head full of music I want to share, only a fraction of which I'll get around to. I spent one afternoon in the planned city of Columbia; you can't go to Columbia without ...

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]]> Radiohead reminds me of Simple Minds tag:vox.com,2008-01-04:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398ceb4550004 2008-01-04T12:15:20Z 2008-01-06T00:43:15Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

06 - Where I End And You Begin Simple Minds - Theme for Great Cities Simple Minds - Androgyny(1)

Back in 2003, Radiohead fan Mrs. Veneer got me a little on board the Radiohead bandwagon by steering me toward a handful of songs that were near-perfect matches for my personal music receptors (Airbag, Electioneering, Idioteque). So I picked up H...

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]]> Homegrown Gothic: Vigil tag:vox.com,2007-12-09:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398c60cb40001 2007-12-09T17:04:04Z 2007-12-10T04:26:26Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Vigil - I Love You Equinox Vigil / HereToday : Equinox Vigil / Here Today : Whistle in the Yard

One Baltimore-area band to almost hit it big in the 80s was Vigil; I think they were actually based in Glen Burnie. The quartet of Jo Connor, Andy Reynolds, "X Factor" and Gregg Maizel had gained a local following under the moniker "Here Today," ...

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]]> Lost and found tag:vox.com,2007-11-05:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398ba4c880003 2007-11-05T03:26:24Z 2008-01-15T04:32:34Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Childinme

It was a fantastic weekend for finding long-lost songs: I found two! The first is "The Child in Me" by Philadelphia band Stranger to Stranger (1983-1992). Released in 1985 as a 12-inch single, it became a staple on WHFS, even after its transform...

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]]> Sheffield continued: The Human League tag:vox.com,2007-11-03:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b9beba0003 2007-11-03T13:45:07Z 2007-11-04T04:57:43Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

01 - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of

The Human League was the first Sheffield band I ever heard: switching radio stations to WHFS in 1982 to check out the "new wave," "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" is one of the songs that made me a convert. That wacky synth playing under the ...

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Sponge - Wax Ecstatic

of Sponge's "Wax Ecstatic." In my lean music years of the mid-90s I didn't hear much outside of the barely-tolerable watered-down "modern rock" that WHFS was offering, and I never liked the two songs by Sponge that they always played, "Plowed" ("...

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