Friday, December 21, 2018

Pointless Radio Reviews: Cruisin'

I decided to review what’s playing on retro pop radio. Because somebody had to. 

“Cruisin’,” Smokey Robinson, 1979

The next time you are at Karaoke Night and a couple start in on the cover version (itself a karaoke song), turn tail and run away until your ears find this. If Smokey is unavailable, D’Angelo’s version will do. 


If all are unavailable, turn to the dictionary and look up “sublime.”





Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Pointless Radio Reviews: Abacab

I decided to review what’s playing on retro pop radio. Because somebody had to. 

 “Abacab,” Genesis. 1981.

My cousin and I flipped our wigs when we dug this album out of her dad’s stack by the (very, very nice, why did he let two 11 year olds play it?) stereo. Uncle had...a song on the radio?! What if we’d found a copy of Freeze-Frame next?