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Spanking works just as well and is a lot more fun.
+7 | 5/21/21 2:15 PM
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I can't hear the last song without thinking of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwSaO2SnHQ
+5 | 5/21/21 10:08 AM
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Straight Outta Compton is of course a great album, but I think it had a terrible effect on Hip-Hop. It came to define rap and narrow the artistic and commercial possibilities for about a decade. I think the sampling lawsuits that hit right around this time also had a huge effect, and combined with NWA's success and notoriety to swamp the nascent Native Tongues movement and what would wind up as underground rap, and keep a lot of it from mainstream success.
+5 | 5/21/21 9:59 AM
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And a collaboration with Mike Nesmith called "Monkey (Monkee Mix)."
+19 | 5/21/21 9:50 AM
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I saw them together 3 or 4 years ago. The first concert I went to with my son. Definitely a memory I'll treasure.
+3 | 5/19/21 4:03 PM
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The The
+4 | 5/19/21 3:43 PM
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Some excellent top comments on that video: 1. Prince the type of dude that shows up to school in a cape but then actually flies. 2. If you watch this in Japan, Prince's fingers are pixellated 3. NASA has reported that Prince's guitar has passed the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft 4. It kinda means everything that George Harrison's kid is also smiling like crazy watching Prince play. This was maybe supposed to be a somber affair, but I love watching Tom Petty and Dahni Harrison all smiles watching Prince.
+12 | 5/19/21 2:06 PM
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You want an intro better than the show? You want groovy music and wacky visuals that the torpid scripts anc direction can't keep up with? You want Gerry Anderson and ITV without Supermarionation? I give you UFO! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qDy4OMAkgY
+2 | 5/14/21 10:59 PM
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Not to be confused with these Tomorrow People: In the very early days of Nickelodeon, they filled the hours with repeats of British kids' sci-fi, among other things. I was absolutely obsessed with The Tomorrow People, and it probably laid the ground for my Doctor Who fandom which was blossoming right around this time. It was kind of like the X-Men, except everyone had the same powers, and the budget made Doctor Who look like Game of Thrones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQTCry_ixTU
+9 | 5/14/21 10:05 AM
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Kelly Clarkson appears to be wearing Orcish pauldrons in that video.
+9 | 5/7/21 9:40 AM
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Down in the Groove marks the end of Dylan's '70s doldrums. Silvio is a particular favorite of mine though. And we're not far from "Oh Mercy." It was seriously depressing when I realized a couple of years ago that Oh Mercy is now part of the first half of Bob Dylan's career. It still seems like one of his recent albums to me.
+3 | 5/5/21 4:32 PM
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I hope I'm not the only one who had to force myself to read it as Emilio Estefan instead of Emilio Estevez throughout the entire article.
+6 | 5/3/21 3:47 PM
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First album I bought with my own money. I think "Going Bezerk" might have been the best song on the album.
+4 | 5/3/21 3:41 PM
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The video was decades ahead of it's time with the vertically oriented smartphone style.
+4 | 5/3/21 3:36 PM
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Sounds like music for folks who think John Cougar should never have added back the Mellencamp.
+11 | 4/28/21 10:45 AM
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IIRC "This Note's For You" got a lot of publicity because MTV originally refused to play it, but then later relented and gave it a bunch of awards.
+8 | 4/28/21 10:33 AM
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GG Allin always seemed to make a much better punchline than a musician. And I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything about how his stage persona was all an act, and he was a really sweet guy once he got to know you.
+6 | 4/26/21 3:05 PM
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That video should come with a free copy of Spy Magazine.
+7 | 4/26/21 2:43 PM
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Mandy gets one bonus point for the key change, and a second for this rendition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blu2DZclU1g
+9 | 4/26/21 2:36 PM
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Worst Band Name SEO: The The
+7 | 4/26/21 2:28 PM
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Sons of the P is such an underrated album.
+4 | 4/23/21 10:00 AM
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The Kinks. Oasis?
+8 | 4/21/21 10:04 AM
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A better, but still not great, song referencing Mr. Astley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXLuSHx1fR0
+15 | 4/21/21 9:59 AM
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A couple of weeks ago I heard the last minute or so of Outa-Space on SiriusXM 70s on 7. I'm pretty sure it's the first time I'd heard it. When I got home, I had to look up the entire song and play it through. It reminds me a lot of Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man, but condensed down to single-length.
+6 | 4/19/21 10:16 AM
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I've really been enjoying 70s on 7 lately, especially the Top 40 countdown on the weekends. The Bridge is also a recent not-guilty pleasure.
+11 | 4/19/21 9:51 AM
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Stevie Wonder has the potential to do his version of Johnny Cash's "American Recordings," working with an unexpected producer to create stripped-down, iconic versions of his and others' songs, creating a capstone to a singular career. The sound might not even be stripped-down, just unexpected and historic, but timeless. I don't know. I'm not a musical genius. He is, and he's got another great album in him, but he needs the right collaborator to bring it out.
+25 | 4/19/21 9:45 AM
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Straight 8s from me.
+1 | 4/14/21 2:41 PM
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In '87 there had also been a huge push of stories/nostalgia about Sgt. Peppers' 20th anniversary, and lots of Beatles discussion. I think this was also when the "Paisley Underground" was a thing. Plus, we're in the pre-SoundScan era, so we can't discount the record label spreading some influence and maybe cash around to push an old friend to the top of the charts.
+18 | 4/7/21 10:36 AM
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I really like "Sister Golden Hair" on it's own merits, but I think the emanations and penumbras of "Horse With No Name" bring down any other America song by about 2 points.
+1 | 4/6/21 11:22 AM
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So that's what it's good for?
+2 | 4/6/21 11:18 AM
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My favorite song on the album when I first heard it at 17 (Dear God) may now be my least favorite song on the album. For a long time Season Cycle was #1 for me, and I've never been sure if it's because of or despite having one of the best terrible rhymes of all time. (If you know the song, you know what it is.)
+2 | 4/2/21 10:48 AM
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I don't actually like listening to "Playground in my Mind," but as the first song I remember hearing on the radio, and the first song I remember as being my favorite song (at the age of 3 or 4,) I had to give it a 10.
+5 | 4/2/21 9:41 AM
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I can't believe we haven't had any in-depth discussion here of XTC's Skylarking. (Or if we did, I missed it.) One of my all-time favorite albums, and probably my favorite arguably-a-concept-album. (Which are almost all better than any actual, intentional, inarguably-a-concept-album.)
+13 | 4/2/21 9:35 AM
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You could sample any three seconds of "More Bounce to the Ounce" and build another song off of it. And for any three seconds, someone has.
+7 | 4/2/21 9:30 AM
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This album came out my first semester of college, and I remember a controversy where the local record store put stickers with "Tr" over the "F" on the album cover.
+5 | 3/24/21 11:48 AM
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I was expecting this to be a Bonus Beat.
+13 | 3/24/21 11:39 AM
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The Deep Impact to Despicable Me's Armageddon. Definitely deserves to be better remembered.
+4 | 3/22/21 11:18 AM
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It gets bonus points from me for a) being Carole King, and b) Lisa Simpson and Bleeding Gums Murphy's cover.
+7 | 3/22/21 11:15 AM
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But you have to admit, he is a no-talent ass-clown.
+11 | 3/22/21 11:11 AM
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Or white and nerdy.
+13 | 3/22/21 11:06 AM
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