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Saturday, March 8, 2025
Neil Young - thrasher, 1979
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"Thrasher" was written while filming Human Highway in New Mexico with Dennis Hopper. Young remembers in a 2022 post to his websi...
Beirut - when i die, 2019
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"The members of Beirut unite for a series of therapeutic group experiments in their intense “When I Die” video. Multimedia artist Bro...
Stars - hope avenue, 2017
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"Does no one fall in love under fluorescent light? Pretty sure that's not true, as many an office romance could attest. But as a ...
Saint Etienne - you're in a bad way, 1993
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"despite the song’s bright and spritely joy, the lyrics address a man who’s been beset by the humdrum of life and has let it get him ...
Simon And Garfunkel - homeward bound live, 1982
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"New York City's Central Park was in a state of deterioration in the mid-1970s. Though Central Park had been designated a Nationa...
New Order - true faith ninety-four, 1987
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"True Faith" is a song by New Order, co-written and co-produced by the band and Stephen Hague. It was the first New Order single...
Prefab Sprout - appetite acoustic, 2006
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"Although they sold millions of records during their heyday in the 1980s, deservedly so, UK "sophisti-pop" band Prefab Spro...
The Smashing Pumpkins - ava adore, 1998
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"Ava Adore" is a song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. It was the first single from their fourth album, ...
Soft Cell - what, 1982
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“What!” came a few months after “Tainted Love” and Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret‘s release, a non-LP single to mark time until Soft Cell’s next ...
Moby - help me to believe, 1992
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"Moby's melodic sense developed much quicker than other early techno producers; despite the criticisms leveled at his later direc...
The House Of Love - thirty-second floor, 1990
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"Between the Smiths/Echo and the Bunnymen and the Britpop resurgence, this London quartet briefly caught England’s late-’80s imaginat...
Belle And Sebastian - family tree, 2003
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"While Stuart is usually my favorite B&S vocalist, Isobel Campbell does a great job with this one."
Barclay James Harvest - the world goes on, 1976
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"The "red side" (which opens the presentation here on both CD and DVD) featured just three songs. Les Holroyd's poetic...
Friday, March 7, 2025
The Radio Dept - freddie and the trojan horse, 2008
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"Sweden’s new-wave shoegazer outfit presents the perfect summer song from their wonderful new EP. It’s sweet like a popsicle."
Renaissance - can you understand, 1973
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"With electric guitarist Andy Powell sitting in on the title track, Renaissance delivered its best, and first fully formed album, mix...
Mike Oldfield - ringscape, 2005
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"2005 Light and Shade: It could be retitled "Mike Oldfield: Bite Sized!" Little nuggets of Oldfield brilliance, like Angeli...
King Hüsky - wish I had a dog, 2025
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"Kvelertak guitarist Vidar Landa has been kicking out surprisingly poppy rock tracks under the name King Hüsky ahead of his self-titl...
Veronica Falls - teenage, 2013
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"The ideal encapsulation of Veronica Falls; perfectly balancing joyous melodic pop with undercurrents of sadness and adolescent yearn...
The Techniques - world without love, 1964
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"McCartney wrote the song when he was 16. When he moved into the London home of his then-girlfriend Jane Asher in 1963, sharing a roo...
Postiljonen - supreme, 2013
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"Swedish/Norwegian trio Postiljonen, a staple as of always, returns with their latest single ‘Supreme’. Following up on their last re...
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