Brian the Blogger!

Hey Everyone! First and foremost, I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving!  I had a great time with Paula and my girls.  We were especially thankful this year, as my daughter Hannah had her tonsils out 8 days ago and, even though she is still on the mend, she felt well enough to join our family for dinner at a nice dinner at Yankee Trace. I need your help.  Now that I have completed the posts on Expose', I have decided to move forward with doing reviews on another '80s band:  Culture Club.  My question to you is this:  would you like for me to review all their 80's output, or just their most popular album Colour By Numbers ?  You can email directly at bmandude71@gmail.com and let me know your opinion. Have a great rest of your weekend and I look forward reading your email! All the best, Brian

           I try to smile so the hurt won't show.  Tell everybody I was glad to see you go. By the summer of 1990, Expose' was the undisputed queens of pop and dance music, and were on a world tour to promote their sophomoric release What You Don't Know .  Then, tragedy struck:  Gioia began experiencing throat problems.  The group cut their tour short so Gioia could seek medical treatment and heal.  Ultimately, Gioia lost her voice.  Doctors would diagnose her with a benign tumor on her vocal chords.  Throat specialists had recommended surgery to remove the tumor, but if they nicked her chords, she risked the chance of permanently losing her speaking voice, not to mention her singing voice.  The risks were too high for her to consider surgery and talking had to be kept to a minimum.  For the time being, Ann and Jeanette decided to take time off and wait for Gioia to recover.  Be the end of 1990, it was...

They say I should be acting cool, they tell me I'm a fool, they don't see the things I see in you... By the summer of 1988, Expose' was one of the hottest female bands of the late 1980's.  In fact, they were in the catbird seat:  their debut album, Exposure , was a double-platinum success yielding a record-setting four top ten hits singles.  Their last single, Season's Change , had peaked at Number One on the Hot 100.  That being said, there was a new challenge on the horizon in the form of their follow-up second album.  It seemed like a lot of dance acts could not maintain their chart success with a second album.  However, Expose' had three things going for them:  One, Ann, Jeanette,and Gioia had grown close touring to support the Exposure album and had become like sisters.  Second, they had their boss, Arista President, Clive Davis, behind them.  Lastly, their producer, Lewis Martinee, had some killer new songs up his sleev...