Cosmic American Blog

And now we come ... to Yuppie Rock. In a way, this series might be a bit redundant. One could argue that most '80s music  is  Yuppie...

Well, if you thought the Jam's journey from "Down In The Tube Station At Midnight" to "Beat Surrender" was strange...

As is the case with many bands, one could argue that the Jam's best songs weren't necessarily their biggest hits (although some of...

Hey, so remember Belinda's birth father? You know, the one who abandoned her family when she was about seven years old - just about th...

Raise your hand if you know what a "mod" is. Put your hand down Jimmy, you're just trying to pull my leg. Right, that's...

Where Hitler failed, German '80s musicians succeeded. While Kraftwerk may have brought the more modern side of German music to the B...

You may recall that back in 2009 I wrote a fairly long review of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Recently I played through th...

The United Kingdom, as I mentioned earlier, is much smaller than the United States, at least in terms of geographical size - if not in sp...

And so the Go-Go's basically slapped together a bunch of Beauty and the Beat leftovers and called it an album. Well yeah. But an albu...

You know, the original ABBA were great and everything, but there was just something ... missing. For years, I couldn't quite put my fi...