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Guadalcanal Diary "Flip-Flop"

  It's been awhile since I've posted but for no specific reason, apart from being busy as usual.  From looking at my files, it looks like I had the intent to do a post back in January and somehow forgot?  Hmm.  Part of old age, I guess.  Well, maybe another day I'll get back to that one. For now, though, is a classic album from the late 80's that possibly few people today would ever stumble upon.  Guadalcanal Diary was an Athens, GA, band (I believe) that came onto the scene in the mid 80's amongst the influx of what I'd call "R.E.M.-ish Bands" amid the "College Radio" days, basically a period of time when new more independent radio stations burst onto the scene playing music that apparently appealed greatly to college kids, or at least that's how I think this all came about.  They were grand ol' days in music, in my opinion, but I was still hovering around 8th - 9th grade myself so it wasn't actually tailored to my age group and ...