RIFFS: Susanna Hoffs re-teams with Bangles

Wash Times ^ | 5/22/09 | Andy Leahey

[pissant]

Since the Bangles' heyday in the 1980s, singer Susanna Hoffs has added several bullets to her resume.

The California native became a wife, mother and solo artist during the 1990s, and the new millennium found her reconvening with the Bangles for a critically heralded reunion album. Although she continued touring with the group, Miss Hoffs also launched a partnership with fellow songwriter Matthew Sweet, whose fanaticism for '60s pop music rivaled her own.

Using Mr. Sweet's home recording studio, the duo began recording new versions of classic '60s songs. The material encouraged Miss Hoffs to buffer her melodies with dense vocal harmonies — a talent she previously had honed to precision with the Bangles — and the resulting work was released in 2006 as "Under The Covers, Vol. 1." Three years later, Miss Hoffs recently completed a second installment of "Under the Covers" — this one delving into the 1970s — while concurrently working on a new album with the Bangles.

[pissant]

She wanted you! LOL

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Damn! What about the RULES!? They are rules around here!

[Claud]

I somehow managed to get over the hurdle that it was written by Prince. :)

And I am also one of those freaks who likes bubblegum rock.

[pissant]

Excuse me, was post 1 chopped liver??

[pissant]

$$$

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Excuse me, was post 1 chopped liver??

Actually, I couldn't tell you. I'm at work and Photobucket is blocked to the extent that unless I highlight the white space and right click to view the selection source, I can't tell if there was a pic posted or not.

I had no idea that you'd posted a pic until you mentioned it just now. Sorry.

[nufsed]

more like $

[Electric Graffiti]

Susanna Hoffs is as hot as a chicken pot pie.

Smoking....Nena had the same effect on me.

[pissant]

that one never worked for me.

[Electric Graffiti]

Let me guess...must have been when she raised her arms?

(...but her hips were mesmerizing)

[ken5050]

Are they the ones who did “Walk Like an Egyptian?”

[pissant]

Nah, I don’t mind a furry gal. I’m not sure what it is about Nena, but she doesn’t have it.

[pissant]

Yes. Bad song, bad video

[ken5050]

My youngest daughtest was 10 when that was released..she played it incessantly....I really hated it...

[Holicheese]

I am sure Obama brockered a deal to get them all back together. Now only if he could get Jamal to reunite with Kajagoogoo.

[MozarkDawg]

They did a great cover of S&G's "Hazy Shade of Winter" for that stupid Robert Downey Jr./Andrew McCarthy movie. Less Than Zero, I think??

[newfreep]

Yes, their cover of HSOW was theme song for Less Than Zero - MUCH better song than movie although it did have Jami Gertz, another hot one like Suzanna Hoffs.

[Holicheese]

Annabelle from Bow Wow Wow!

[RichInOC]

“Brothers, can I get a ‘WOOT!’?”

[Joe 6-pack]

"Nena had the same effect on me."

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