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11/27/2001
This is how it's gonna look for the next few comps, folks: a few top 40 hits, a few hip-hop cuts and lots of indie stuff. Of course, the best thing about this comp is the cut from the 'Repo Man' soundt …
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11/27/2001
It was with this mix CD that I simultaneously (a) set my rule of at least 15 songs and 60 minutes in each CD of this series and (b) realized it might be a bit tricky to reach that goal. As for this yea …
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11/26/2001
The musical landscape of 1982 was... er... uh... well, shit, LOOK AT IT. On one hand, you've got a big fistful of notable, memorable hardcore punk tracks, some angry, some powerful, some hilarious, som …
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11/25/2001
Further developments in the music world in '81: female-helmed NYC art-funk (ESG, Tom Tom Club), more ska-style goodness (The Specials, The Police), and perhaps most importantly, hardcore punk. Though t …
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11/25/2001
The influence of Jamaican music is all over this year's comp (rap did, after all, have its origins in dancehall 'toasting'). Both ska (The Selecter, the English Beat) and hip-hop (Kurtis Blow, the Trea …
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11/25/2001
As we hit the last year of a musically tumultuous decade we get to see an early preview of rock's upcoming '80s revolutions: a more arty side of punk with a "post-" tacked on the beginning (Wire, Gang …
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11/25/2001
We continue our journey through the better-than-they're-given-credit-for days of rock and/or roll and its many offshoots. Looks to be a hell of a year for both the Buzzcocks (including their castoff Ho …
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11/24/2001
In his book "Flowers in the Dustbin" rock critic James Miller posited (albeit more out of exclusion than anything) that rock, for all intents and purposes, died in 1977- the year of Elvis' death and th …
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