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Forum Post: Favorite (and excellent) album titles
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Forum Post: Left, Right, Center
In response to mrmojo1120's comment: In response to gerbs' comment: Centerfield - John Fogerty My Baby Left Me - Arthur Crudup The Night Time is the Right Time - Nappy Brown ... there is a common li more »
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Forum Post: Left, Right, Center
Centerfield - John Fogerty
My Baby Left Me - Arthur Crudup
The Night Time is the Right Time - Nappy Brown
... there is a common link among these for any of the usual detectives
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Forum Post: Harmony (past, present, and future)
In response to RogerTaylor's comment: In response to yogafriend's comment: RE: Hfx Beatles - If I Fell CSN - Carry On 10CC - I'm Not In Love Crowded House - Weather With You (here's the video) http: more »
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Forum Post: Having all kinds of problems logging in and staying logged in here since last Monday.
I've been having problems of sorts for months. The main issue is that anytime I go from BDC to bostonglobe.com or vice versa, my saved profile disappears and even though I appear to still be "logged more »
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Forum Post: Thank you -- Thanks -- Thankful ...
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Forum Post: New? No thanks.
Disdain for the new and different is a time-honored tradition. Maybe we've just gotten to be too polite about it :) http://classical-scene.com/2013/03/27/scandal/ And for my part, 100% agree with Gr more »
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Forum Post: Best Foreign Groups Not From England
It's a particularly good week to recognize social activism, so I'll nominate:
Australia - Midnight Oil
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Forum Post: New? No thanks.
Oh yeah... the LW is not alone. I can accept people's antipathy toward new compositions but it really does seem like there's often a total lack of interest in even considering anything written after more »
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Forum Post: 2120 South Michigan Avenue: Addressing musical nods
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Forum Post: 2120 South Michigan Avenue: Addressing musical nods
Even though the address in this case is not in the title, I can't fail to mention The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes, based on its walk down Hollywood Boulevard.
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Forum Post: Van Cliburn, American pianist - RIP
Thanks for the heads-up, yoga. Truly one of the few larger-than-life classical music celebrities from the US. There's a pretty comprehensive write-up in the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/ more »
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Forum Post: Muse (yes, no, or meh-be?)
In response to yogafriend's comment: Last year Muse released, The 2nd Law, their 6th album, to critical acclaim. A single from that album, "Madness" was deemed one of the best songs of 2012 -- IMHO more »
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Forum Post: List In Order Your Favorite Geographically Named Bands
Arctic Monkeys
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Forum Post: Common Ground List (?)
Slim's got it ... I'd have just said the first charting single by each artist. The Doors gave me reason for doubt as I would surely have thought their first was Light My Fire.
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Forum Post: Sweets for St. Valentine
Chocolate Cake - Crowded House
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Forum Post: Sweets for St. Valentine
Candy - Iggy Pop
Me in Honey - REM
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Sweet Surrender - Sarah McLachlan
Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - Four Tops
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Forum Post: Good music, bad music
In response to SonicsMonksLyresVicars' comment: Yes, we've only been discussing rock music. Re classical music, why is it that modern composers are not considered - at least by laymen - to be able to more »
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Forum Post: Cold, Colder, Coldest
Out in the Cold - Tom Petty
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
Winter - Tori Amos
Frozen - Madonna
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Forum Post: Lisztian interpretation of Pink Floyd -- an unlikely sensation
Christopher O'Riley, host of NPR's "From the Top", used to feature his own piano solo transcriptions of Radiohead during breaks in the show. "Lisztified" would have been an apt description for those more »
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Forum Post: Crimson Tide vs. Fighting Irish -- any musical advice?
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Forum Post: Boxing Day/Kwanzaa music quiz.
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Forum Post: Boxing Day/Kwanzaa music quiz.
In response to cavaliersfan's comment: In response to cavaliersfan's comment: [QUOTE] For Boxing Day I like the song Bob Dylan did about Hurricane Carter. Was that song covered by the Scorpions and r more »
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Forum Post: Kennedy Center Honors on tonight at 9:00
In response to yogafriend's comment: Anyone watch? Record? Sorry LZ was the last honoree, but that's purely a case of saving the best for last. Well, almost, as Buddy Guy's production was the mo more »
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Forum Post: In celebration of Doomsday, before we go ...a final band ID
I hadn't realized there is another Clash link - apart from the drummer that "jammed with the mighty Joe Strummer", Mick Jones played on a couple of tracks on the new album. And it might be just me, b more »
In response to GreginMeffa's comment: Brain Salad Surgery - ELP +1 for sure - when it came out, I wondered if the title was an attempt to one-up the Stones' Goats Head Soup. Apprarently I wasn't more »