Posts From Cary Baker

The Bangles: With ‘All Over the Place,’ the Heroines Take the Plunge

With hits like “Hero Takes a Fall” and “Going Down to Liverpool,” the band displayed its own distinct sound and persona on its debut LP.

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Cheap Trick ‘In Color’: The LP That Put Them on the Map

Cheap Trick broke musical and lyrical boundaries, even defying the look of a rock band with a couple of rock stars and a couple of nerds.

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R.E.M.’s ‘Document’: Not the End of the World, But the End of an Era

The Georgia band’s fifth studio album was the mark of a group spreading its wings, but also leaving something behind.

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