7/31/2007
With only three albums produced during his lifetime, even casual fans are quickly acquainted with the majority of Nick's work. But because his elegant lyrics are so profoundly resonant with his most fe …
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7/26/2007
The term "countrypolitan" seemed to have been coined specifically for Ray Price, though no one song of his fits the term exactly. Half a century ago, he exemplified the honky-tonkin' style, and as the …
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7/10/2007
When it comes to Peter Frampton, there's the obvious pinnacle. The 1976 live breakthrough, Frampton Comes Alive, produced smashes and cool-jam specials like "Lines on My Face" and "I Wanna Go to …
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7/10/2007
Wherein we go beyond the behemoth best sellers to present newcomers and diehards alike with "From the Underworld," a fuzz-tone fantasia from Peter Frampton's early-days outfit, the Herd, alongside the …
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7/10/2007
Add the myriad bang-your-head/flex-your-brain works of Minor Threat and Fugazi to the stack of generation-jumping records your kids and your kids' kids will devour right after a couple hours with the C …
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7/10/2007
Fire up these 25 classic Minor Threat/Fugazi songs for just about any aging indie or punk rocker, and they'll start singing along within seconds, which pretty much kills that whole Deep Cuts concept, r …
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6/26/2007
The ballad of Mott the Hoople ended in 1976, nearly a year after front man Ian Hunter abandoned ship. But during their prime they toured the world and sang about it, documenting their thrilling journey …
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6/26/2007
The Hoople (1974) marked Ian Hunter's farewell, but he went out in style with album cuts like "Born Late '58," a deliciously raunchy laundry list of feminine attributes nailed to a dirty-old-man …
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6/12/2007
They say the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and during their career the Police blazed with the white-hot intensity of an oxy-acetylene torch. In the span of just over five years - …
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