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Jheri Curl June: The Time’s “Jerk Out”
Well, here we are: the last day of Jheri Curl June, and I don’t think there could be a better band to go out with than the greatest band in the world, the muthafuckin’ Time. Today’s selection, “Jerk Out,” comes from the earliest of the Time’s many reunion albums, 1990’s Pandemonium: their first release as a group since 1984’s Ice…
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Jheri Curl June: Full Force’s “Love is for Suckers (Like Me and You)”
As we discussed in a previous post, by the middle of the decade the popularity of jheri curl music was waning, thus making room for both hip-hop and New Jack Swing. Full Force, who released their first album in 1985, combine equal parts of all three genres, helping to bridge the gap between JCM and New…
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Jheri Curl June: Roger’s “I Want to Be Your Man”
Roger Troutman was a talented guitarist, bassist, keyboard player and harmonica player, yet he is undeniably best known for perfecting the use of the talkbox in R&B music. Between his band Zapp and his “solo career”–a term I employ loosely, as most of the personnel on his solo records were in fact members of Zapp–Roger had a…