Ditto "Enola Gay" by OMD and "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" by Pere Ubu.
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Early UB40 is great. Too bad this is overshadowed by how awful much of their subsequent recorded output has been.
Two more off the top of my head:
Now this character almost certainly has clones.
What Difference Does It Make? In any case, this particular pun thread seems to be going Nowhere Fast.
For me Blood Sugar Sex Magik is their best, but I much prefer One Hot Minute to the boring middle-of-the-road crap they've produced ever since.
Was with you right up until you declared "The Wake-Up Bomb" not a very good track. After threatening to do so for over a decade, R.E.M. finally rocked out! Hearing them play that song at the MTV Awards in 1995 was revelatory.
Given the themes of incest and mutilation that run throughout the album, I think having Black Francis' vocals low in the mix actually makes the songs more effective than they would have been with Gil Norton's cleaner production, making Surfer Rosa distinct from the other albums in the Pixies catalogue (don't get me…
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction at the same festival? Now maybe RHCP fans can finally get the One Hot Minute-era reunion set they have been demanding all these years - complete with giant lightbulb costumes!
A fig?
He may be a prick, but his records sound so damn good. Knowing that an album has been produced recorded by Albini is almost guaranteed to increase the likelihood that I'll enjoy it, just as hearing or reading anything that comes out of his mouth is almost guaranteed to irritate me on some level.
So glad that "The Freed Pig" made the list.
The line "the vagabond who's rapping at your door / is standing in the clothes that you once wore" is thought to be directed at least in part to Donovan, who in late 1964 sounded and dressed much the way Dylan did two years prior. Not exactly scathing, but a mild put down nonetheless. Then again, Dylan has rarely been…
Nice touch at the end with the soundtrack info.
CDs didn't even start outselling cassettes in the United States until 1992.
The major issue seems to be that the filmmakers neglected to mention that Rodriguez achieved a certain amount of fame in Australia and New Zealand and toured there during the late 70's and early 80's. Since it's unlikely many in apartheid South Africa during that time would have had any way of finding out about this,…
Finally saw Searching For Sugar Man last night. I was lucky enough to get turned on to Rodriguez some years ago thanks to one of my awesome neighbours so I knew most of the story already, but it was still moving to see him get on stage in South Africa for the first time. Not surprisingly, was listening to Cold Fact…
What's with the hair? How about it, cueball? I'm lookin' at you and thinkin' "fourteen in the side pocket."
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