1987 Alternative Rock Top 40

1987 was a turning point for Eighties rock: Boomercentric classic rock was starting to fade again after getting a big corporate push in the mid-Eighties, GenX metal and alternative rock were on the ascendancy, and the Top 40 was rapidly losing the luster it had just three years prior.

Talking Synchronicity (and the Year That Broke Reality)

Secret Sun Radio Mystery Hour: You Will Know Synchronicity by Christopher Knowles

How 1983's blockbuster album helped break reality.

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Opening Presence (Led Zeppelin's Presence, That Is)

Presence is an album a lot of Led Zeppelin fans don’t own, and even a lot of those that do don’t listen to it very often. 

The Siren In the Stars: Jeff Buckley's Birth Chart...and more.

Siren Week was so active this time around that it's bleeding over into this week. So much so that our man Karl is on the case with the birth charts of the Shepherd Boy and other major players.

Hell Hath No Fury (Like a Madonna Scorned)

 

Seeing as she has been such a primary vector and conduit for metaphysical evil and cultural degeneracy for the past forty years, it's no surprise that Madonna would play a role in the mythopoetic magical mystery play of the Siren. 

Eatin' to the Eighties: Your Summer Party Megamix has Arrived

From the cities to the suburbs to the countryside, I hear the people shout it out everywhere I go: "The Twenty-First Century sucks - how can we go back to the Eighties?"