http://popdoctor.com Just another WorldBlogosphere.com blog Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:05:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://popdoctor.com/269/music/how-bizarre-how-bizarre/ http://popdoctor.com/269/music/how-bizarre-how-bizarre/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:05:34 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=269 When it comes to the bizarre – the 70s seemed to have a stranglehold on performing artists crying out for some kind – in fact any kind of help. Take Englebert Humperdink. Granted he had enduring talent which to this day has earned him milliions – but at what point did his manager decide that [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/269/music/how-bizarre-how-bizarre/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/266/pop-culture/elo-and-jeff-lynne-personifying-pop-music/ http://popdoctor.com/266/pop-culture/elo-and-jeff-lynne-personifying-pop-music/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:57:37 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=266 What do you get when you combine cellos, violins, woodwinds, horns and classical overtones to a stirring rock agenda? Modern Opera? Well kinda. ELO – or for the puritans – The Electric Light Orchestra. Hugely contemporary with unabashed lashings of everything from baroque to renaissance – Jeff Lynne and his wandering band of mistrals defied [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/266/pop-culture/elo-and-jeff-lynne-personifying-pop-music/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/261/pop-culture/kiss-more-than-just-lip-service-to-rock/ http://popdoctor.com/261/pop-culture/kiss-more-than-just-lip-service-to-rock/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 10:07:00 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=261 Regarded as one of the most influential rock and roll bands of all-time KISS holds honors as one of America’s top gold record champions, recording 36 albums over 32 years selling over 75 million albums worldwide. Performing at everything from the Super Bowl to the 2002 Winter Olympics , the KISS legacy continues to grow, [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/261/pop-culture/kiss-more-than-just-lip-service-to-rock/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/223/music/favourite-music-video-clips/ http://popdoctor.com/223/music/favourite-music-video-clips/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:23:53 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=223 With the proliferation of music video clips – my mind can’t help but hark back to the very first screening of MTV when I was a teen and of course the now iconic “Video Killed The Radio Star” soundtrack by the Buggles. Since then of course – up and coming performers have come and gone [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/223/music/favourite-music-video-clips/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/218/music/design-your-ultimate-rock-band/ http://popdoctor.com/218/music/design-your-ultimate-rock-band/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:46:53 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=218 When conversation turns to music – there’s no holding back – we all have our favourites. But given the chance – who would you include in your ultimate rock band?  I’m not talking a cast akin to the Mormon Tabernacle or Earth, Wind and Fire for that matter – but a five-piece gods of rock [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/218/music/design-your-ultimate-rock-band/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/198/pop-culture/meatloaf-and-one-hell-of-an-album/ http://popdoctor.com/198/pop-culture/meatloaf-and-one-hell-of-an-album/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:38:53 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=198 ‘The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling Way down in the valley tonight . . . ‘ Could it be that the unmistakable melodic prose of Jim Steinman mixed with the bombastic style of one Marvin Lee Aday – better known to us all as ‘Meatloaf’ – afforded the world one of the [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/198/pop-culture/meatloaf-and-one-hell-of-an-album/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/191/movies/american-graffiti/ http://popdoctor.com/191/movies/american-graffiti/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:16:40 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=191 “Rock ‘n roll’s been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died.” Hardly the definitive piece of historic movie dialogue but  . . .  salient in it’s context none-the-less. . . . Happy Days, Grease, Sha-na-na, Laverne and Shirley, Back to The Future Part 1 . . .  there’s little doubt that for the latter part [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/191/movies/american-graffiti/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/184/music/dont-play-it-again-sam-please/ http://popdoctor.com/184/music/dont-play-it-again-sam-please/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:23:48 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=184 Ya know – there are annoying songs, truly awful songs and then there are just plain – ‘you’re messin’ with my mind’ songs – that we just can’t stomach. Trouble is of course – that collectively we would never hear these through mainstream sources such as radio – if they didn’t at least have a [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/184/music/dont-play-it-again-sam-please/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/176/pop-culture/songs-that-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head/ http://popdoctor.com/176/pop-culture/songs-that-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:37:12 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=176 They say that music matters most when you’re a teenager. Apparently (as reported in an article appearing the in the SMH back in 2004) it is a ‘social lubricant and signifier in your 20s and represents the person you remember you were (and wish you were still) when you’re in your 30s and 40s’. “Along [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/176/pop-culture/songs-that-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head/feed/ 2 http://popdoctor.com/157/pop-culture/which-decade-was-cooler-60s-vs-the-70s/ http://popdoctor.com/157/pop-culture/which-decade-was-cooler-60s-vs-the-70s/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:51:12 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=157 Damn – that’s a tough one! Conversation turned to this at a party held in the confines of the Doctor’s palatial residence recently – and the jury was still out 2 hours after the topic was raised. Jimmy Hendrix vs Elton John, The Beatles v the Bee Gees, the Moon Landing vs Star Wars – the lists [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/157/pop-culture/which-decade-was-cooler-60s-vs-the-70s/feed/ 2 http://popdoctor.com/151/pop-culture/air-guitar-fans-unite/ http://popdoctor.com/151/pop-culture/air-guitar-fans-unite/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:34:24 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=151 What is it about 70’s music that evokes seemingly mature men to spontaneously adopt a Fender air guitar stance amidst normally civil (yet like-minded) individuals – and women to shun their inhabitations and regail in either the Nut-Bush or encouraging their girlfriends to join them on the dance floor – simply because “I love this [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/151/pop-culture/air-guitar-fans-unite/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/132/pop-culture/the-monkees/ http://popdoctor.com/132/pop-culture/the-monkees/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 00:01:22 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=132 The Monkees were the quinessential ‘manufacturerd’ pop quartet, assembled in LA during the mid 60’s – purportedly to combat the scourge of the British invasion by bands such as The Beatles. Marketed to the pre-teen and teen audience – the group is probably best known for its hit TV series – known (strangley enough) as [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/132/pop-culture/the-monkees/feed/ 2 http://popdoctor.com/128/lists/girls-night-out-songs/ http://popdoctor.com/128/lists/girls-night-out-songs/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 02:35:40 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=128 We all know that no matter what time of the year it is – Girls Just Wanna Hun! So when the Pop Doctor’s better half was asked along to a ‘Girls Night Out’ last week – thought it presented an opportunity to list a few Girl Songs – to help get the party started. I’ve [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/128/lists/girls-night-out-songs/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/111/pop-culture/whats-your-embarrassing-musical-secret/ http://popdoctor.com/111/pop-culture/whats-your-embarrassing-musical-secret/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 01:40:28 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=111 We all have em’ Tunes we secretly love – but are too embarrassed to admit to in mixed company. Hidden amongst the shelves of our album or CD collections they remain musical recluses to anyone other than you – finding freedom only occassionally – and then no doubt through the sanctity of the ipod. Sandwiched [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/111/pop-culture/whats-your-embarrassing-musical-secret/feed/ 7 http://popdoctor.com/81/lists/your-top-5-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame/ http://popdoctor.com/81/lists/your-top-5-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:08:22 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=81 You’ve been given a mandate by Rolling Stone Magazine to induct five (yes only five) rock n’ roll legends into a hall of fame. You do the homework, you agonise over the plethora of artists and finally you’ve narrowed it down to eight or nine – the question is who do you leave out? Would [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/81/lists/your-top-5-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/55/music/pop/worlds-greatest-guitar-riffs/ http://popdoctor.com/55/music/pop/worlds-greatest-guitar-riffs/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:29:41 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=55   OK – so with such a tightly packed field vying for the title of Greatest Guitar Riff of All Time – it comes down to being subjective and (in many cases) the era you hold closest as far as creative palance is concerned. The contenders are a virtual who’s who of the musical world [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/55/music/pop/worlds-greatest-guitar-riffs/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/44/music/pop/break-up-songs/ http://popdoctor.com/44/music/pop/break-up-songs/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:58:36 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=44 Ever had one of those sorryful moments in your life when the radio and your own self absorbed mind found solice in a particular tune? Perhaps Kelly Clarkson and Since U Been Gone struck a chord or Gloria Gaynor’s – I Will Survive – maybe even The Eagles – Heartache Tonight is a contender for [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/44/music/pop/break-up-songs/feed/ 3 http://popdoctor.com/21/pop-culture/70s-album-art-just-for-the-record/ http://popdoctor.com/21/pop-culture/70s-album-art-just-for-the-record/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:15:55 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=21 Before vinyl became fodder for the retro revolution- album covers were justifyable coming into their own as ‘art’. The 70′s in particular were a dynamic era in rock art where the marketing needs of the record industry and the aesthetics of rock & roll came together in an often spectacular visual marriage. OK – so [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/21/pop-culture/70s-album-art-just-for-the-record/feed/ 8 http://popdoctor.com/3/music/music-to-my-ears/ http://popdoctor.com/3/music/music-to-my-ears/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:20:06 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=3 At what point in your musical journey do you earn the right to be simply acknowledged by your first name? Is it all to do with marketing or is it fame? Perhaps it’s more to do with your birth name. Madonna, Prince, Bono are all recognisable by their singular and exclusive moniker – but given some [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/3/music/music-to-my-ears/feed/ 12