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Singer/Songwriter
12/31/2005
Thrown together for a friend who prefers acoustic folk music. Harder than I thought to find rock songs totally devoid of drums & electricity, but this is what I came up with. (Thanks to Rob Conroy for …
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Single Artist
12/7/2005
Most likely relegated to the "best bands you've never heard" category, The Action were one of the coolest (but most overlooked) bands arising out of the 60's British Invasion. Their (brief) career basi …
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Theme - Narrative
11/22/2005
Here then, in a nutshell, the basic rock & roll success story. Hungry young band kicks around for awhile, dreaming big rock & roll dreams, maybe gets a bit of college radio airplay but nothing big time …
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Single Artist
11/13/2005
Having finally picked up all the Byrds remasters, I revamped and expanded my old single-cd mix. A bit of karma at work here, as, wholly by luck, the 2-cd set neatly divided between their early classic …
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Theme - Narrative
10/28/2005
Third in a series of imaginary soundtracks to nonexistent low-budget indie films with cliched road trips through the underbelly of America. As with the others, it's an effort to find music with a cinem …
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Pop
10/10/2005
At last, the long awaited sequel to Kick Out The Jangles, Motherf***** -- another 80 minutes of jangly-guitar pop, the kind that dominated the college radio airwaves in the mid-80s (or at least shared …
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Single Artist
10/2/2005
While I realize there are a few Galaxie 500 loyalists here, I think Dean Wareham's post-G500 "supergroup" was the far better act, as Wareham moved beyond G500's post-Velvet drones to a fuller, catchier …
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Theme
9/25/2005
K-Tel presents... 25 exciting classic stupendous yet surprisingly puzzling tracks thru the ages with paired male/female vocal duties. Frequently cute, but a little bit o' cute never hurt.
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Single Artist
9/24/2005
Hot on the heels of my wholly unnecessary and not exactly hotly anticipated Darling Buds mix, here come the Primitives, another late 80s girl-helmed UK pop band. Like the Buds, the Primitives started o …
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