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The New Seekers - Pinball Wizard
Artists mentioned:Yesterday I almost picked up a still-sealed copy of The New Seekers' 1973 album Pinball Wizards at my local Salvation Army. I passed on it because the Salvation Army was asking $2 per record. I just think $2 is more than you should have to pay for a record at...(read full post)
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Parents Get Homework Too
Artists mentioned:I was asked to write about what I could remember of Kindergarten for a project related to my son Will's kindergarten class. Here is what I wrote followed by a couple appropriate tunes:Memories are inherently unreliable. We change and distort our memories to suit our own needs and create compelling...(read full post)
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Fugi - Mary Don't Take Me On No Bad Trip
Artists mentioned:Fugi's 1969 single "Mary Don't Take Me On No Bad Trip" is what you might call a funky nugget. Funky, heavy, druggy and slightly paranoid, the song would have sounded right at home on Funkadelic's lysergic apex, Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow. Truth be told, it would...(read full post)
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Bo Diddley in Rock's Back Pages
Artists mentioned:Rock's Back Pages have made a number of articles on the late, great Bo Diddley available for free this week.Charles Shaar Murray's extremely insightful defense of Bo Diddley (NME, 1975):THE WHOLE THING about Bo Diddley was that he was by far the weirdest and craziest musician ever to come out...(read full post)
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Trotsky Icepick - Baby
Artists mentioned:Trotsky Icepick was a Los Angeles underground supergroup of sorts, formed by songwriters Vitus Mataré (formerly of The Last) and Kjehl Johansen (100 Flowers, Urinals). Originally, the band planned to change names with every album, but keep the same album title. This resulted in two albums entitled Poison Summer, the...(read full post)
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Tuscadero to Perform "The Pink Album" Live
Artists mentioned:Tuscadero will perform their 1994 classic The Pink Album live in its entirety in a series of special concerts this summer. Each performance by the newly reformed indie-rock legends will feature an early and a late show. In the early show the band will perform the lo-fi indie version of...(read full post)
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You Make Me Die (More Mud)
Artists mentioned:In my last post, I didn't include "You Make Me Die," the third song on Mudhoney's "You're Gone" single, because I mistakenly thought it was included on the March To The Fuzz compilation. It's not, so here it is. The backing track was provided by Mudhoney, while the vocals were...(read full post)
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Mudhoney - You're Gone
Artists mentioned:It's kind of amazing to me that it's taken me this long to get around to posting something on Mudhoney. That might be because, despite the fact that they are one of my all time favorite bands, I have very little interesting to say about Mudhoney.Mudhoney rocks. Hard.Probably I should...(read full post)
