Pop Culture Fiend

Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason --  unlike many of the band's greater efforts ( The Final Cut, Dark Side of the Moon, The...

The cover for Supertramp's 1979 smash Breakfast in America is nothing short of a masterpiece of composition. It features the view from ...

This one is a gut punch.  I'll start with this: Olivia Newton-John was... IS... one of the best of all time. The sweet-voiced Australian...

Of all the genre-defining, hugely influential funk bands emerging out of the midwest during the 1970s (including Slave, Parliament-Funkadeli...

Go elsewhere to read in memoriam bios of Michael Lee Aday; I'm here to talk about Meat Loaf  dammit! He passed away yesterday and even t...

For their breakthrough 1996 album, The Score , The Fugees lifted the font and styling used for the cover of Mario Puzo's novel The Godf...

I have no idea what inspired this but I was showering one day last month and it just came to me that Cher's jangly ballad from 1971, ...

Heard James Brown's "The Payback" earlier today. I can remember that song from when I was a very little kid (my older sister ...

So in honor of the return of Pop Culture Fiend, here's the theme song from Welcome Back Kotter ... Now one interesting thing about ...

Everyone from my generation remembers where they were when certain life-ending events occurred. JFK and MLK were assassinated before we were...

Hello PopCultureFiend  readers! Oh wait, I almost forgot, NO ONE READS THIS BLOG.  But on the off chance that there is someone out there who...

Was listening to "Don't Stop Me Now" and other Queen tunes recently and reflecting on what a great band they were. Americans ...

We’ve been deluged with rain here for the last three days and I’m getting a little sick of shining my damn shoes. (And don’t even get me sta...

Caught VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs . (The channel has compiled similar lists for 80s songs, One Hit Wonders, and other...