the one after the big one
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The One After the Big One: Van Halen, VAN HALEN II
What do you do when you make one of the great hard rock albums of all time — a record that at the time was representative of a new kind of playing, yet still juvenile and fun, and decades later...
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The One After the Big One: Pet Shop Boys, ACTUALLY
Why aren’t the Pet Shop Boys discussed when conversation turns to the great bands of the ‘80s and early ‘90s? Or even when talk turns to the bands of that era still making vibrant, exciting music today? U2 is still...
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The One after the Big One: Replacements, ALL SHOOK DOWN
Ah, the Replacements. It’s difficult to think of a band that ended sounding so much more different than they sounded when they began. From their snotty, shambolic 1981 debut, SORRY MA, FORGOT TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH, the band cut...
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The One after the Big One: Pretenders, GET CLOSE
After 1984’s cathartic and uniformly excellent LEARNING TO CRAWL, the Pretenders were rightly considered among the finest rock ‘n’ roll bands in the world, and Chrissie Hynde likewise deserved the praise she received as a songwriter and performer. Everything began...
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The One after the Big One: Crosby, Stills & Nash, DAYLIGHT AGAIN
Crosby, Stills & Nash scored their biggest record as a trio with 1977’s CSN, selling four million copies of the album, which bode well for the group, considering the changing landscape of popular music at that time, with disco on...
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The One after the Big One: Whitesnake, SLIP OF THE TONGUE
In the ‘80s, David Coverdale seemed to have two overarching concerns — sex and the blues (and maybe Aquanet, which would make three). Whitesnake’s music had always had something of a blues base, though fed through large amplifiers and played...
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The One after the Big One: Alice Cooper, MUSCLE OF LOVE
By February 1973, Alice Cooper (the band) and Alice Cooper (the musician) were at the top of their popularity, a climb that had started almost exactly two years earlier, when “I’m Eighteen” hit the radio and the singles charts. By...
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The One after the Big One: Michael McDonald, NO LOOKIN’ BACK
It was no surprise when Michael McDonald’s 1982 solo debut IF THAT’S WHAT IT TAKES landed in the Top Ten, yielded a Top Ten single (“I Keep Forgettin’”), and effortlessly went gold. His last records with the Doobie Brothers (MINUTE...
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The One after the Big One: Randy Travis, ALWAYS AND FOREVER
Randy Travis’ first album, STORMS OF LIFE, was one of THOSE debuts — an instant classic, released in a year (1986) that also saw the likes of Dwight Yoakam, Lyle Lovett and Steve Earle also make an immediate impact on...
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