I hadn’t expected listening to the hit parade to feed me an album review.
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Category: Country
Ten wheels for Jesus.
Mixtape: Songs for 2022
Some of these are old. Some of them are new(ish). They are all songs I listened to, with varying levels of obsessiveness, at various times during 2022.
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Father John Misty: Chloe and the Next 20th Century (2022).
Some of you may remember his aggressively caustic approach to, well, everything, but I think maybe the man has … mellowed? Perhaps?
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Links: Dee Dee Ramone, how to work Spotify, talking rubber, American Recordings.
GIRLS LEAD PUNK ARMY ON RAMPAGE
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Links: Burroughs on the presidency, American Pie, Blood on the Tracks.
A beautiful and apposite William S. Burroughs reading, and some classic rock faff.
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“Jolene” by Dolly Parton at 33rpm works transcendentally well.
Click the little “play” button at the top of this. That’s “Jolene” by Dolly Parton, slowed down to what the 45rpm single would have sounded like being played at 33rpm. That’s it. That’s all.
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“Duncan” by Slim Dusty is now in Wikipedia.
I was amazed to discover that Slim Dusty’s second-biggest hit wasn’t covered in Wikipedia. Well, now it is ‘cos I put it there.
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Why every mainstream record sounds the same, step by step.
Tom Whitwell has just reposted his 2008 Word article on the recording process for mainstream radio-targeted music: how to record music literally targeted at
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The discreet charm of the Grateful Dead.
What is a Deadhead? How do they get that way? Why, dear God, WHY? Daniel Chamberlain attempts to answer this question. He does note
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