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The Great Vinyl Meltdown: November 2008
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown. For 2009, I'm breaking down the (real) oldies, the world of women musicians, and the 1950s charts. New posts each Wednesday and Saturday. Saturday, November 29, 2008. Art for Art’s Sake Vs. Utilitarianism. This post is going to touch on a concept I learned in graduate school, but don’t let that scare you away. It’s about music, and I won’t test you on the material. I won’t even put you to sleep. Just as someone wearing a ratty AC-DC t-shirt walks by. T-Shirt Guy nods knowing...
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown: May 2009
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown. For 2009, I'm breaking down the (real) oldies, the world of women musicians, and the 1950s charts. New posts each Wednesday and Saturday. Sunday, May 31, 2009. People Don’t Eat People; Purple People Eat People. For the background on this blog series, see this post. I’m done teaching for the 2008-2009 school year! A quick note: Sometimes I think about how cool it is that people come here from very far away. So, hello to my reader in Skopje! May 28, 1955:. Tunes new to the Best Se...
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown: February 2009
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown. For 2009, I'm breaking down the (real) oldies, the world of women musicians, and the 1950s charts. New posts each Wednesday and Saturday. Saturday, February 28, 2009. 1950s Chart Meltdown, Week 9: Two Women Singing. For the background on this blog series, see this post. This will be another slightly abbreviated post, as I am getting in the car at 7am and hightailing it out of Minnesota for a visit to my family in Indiana. I won’t skip any posts this week. February 26, 1955.
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown: July 2008
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown. For 2009, I'm breaking down the (real) oldies, the world of women musicians, and the 1950s charts. New posts each Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Holy Vinyl, Batman! When I set up the song sequence for this blogging year last October, I had no idea there was another Batman movie in the works. Well, there’s. Hit the small screen. Before that time, I had received hand-me-down comic books, probably from my cousin Bob, and so I was well-versed in what Archie and Ri...
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown: The Great Chart Meltdown: Guidelines
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown. For 2009, I'm breaking down the (real) oldies, the world of women musicians, and the 1950s charts. New posts each Wednesday and Saturday. Friday, January 2, 2009. The Great Chart Meltdown: Guidelines. Apart from such discrepancies as songs that never hit the radio chart but sell very well (a phenomenon I can’t discuss in great detail until I receive permission to quote the actual charts), there is one type of compilation decision I will want to address each week. If you own a bo...
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown: You’ve All Heard His Name
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown. For 2009, I'm breaking down the (real) oldies, the world of women musicians, and the 1950s charts. New posts each Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday, June 3, 2009. You’ve All Heard His Name. Fats was a powerful artist with as light and agile a touch as any pianist’s, when he needed it. It should not be surprising that his compositions display inventiveness and nuance so understated that his listeners may not even have known why they found him so impressive. Okeh Records first rec...
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown: April 2009
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown. For 2009, I'm breaking down the (real) oldies, the world of women musicians, and the 1950s charts. New posts each Wednesday and Saturday. Tuesday, April 28, 2009. At this very moment, I am probably being more productive overall than at any time in my life. That would be great, if I were a high-powered CEO, equipped with an exit strategy and a cottage in the West. And I don’t mean the Pacific Coast. Then, which made downtown seem appealing. But the reality was different: As i...
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown: October 2008
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown. For 2009, I'm breaking down the (real) oldies, the world of women musicians, and the 1950s charts. New posts each Wednesday and Saturday. Friday, October 31, 2008. Four-year-old pops in new CD]:. Okay, lil mama had a swag like mine. Even wear her hair down her back like mine. I make her feel right when its wrong like lyin'. Man, she ain never had a love like mine n'. Man I ain’t never seen a ass like hers. And that pussy in my mouth had me at a loss fo words. 1958), which won hi...
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown: You Can't Do This in Most Homes Now, but It's Safe to Do If You Own Vinyl
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The Great Vinyl Meltdown. For 2009, I'm breaking down the (real) oldies, the world of women musicians, and the 1950s charts. New posts each Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday, August 12, 2009. You Can't Do This in Most Homes Now, but It's Safe to Do If You Own Vinyl. That’s what I was supposed to do. And I was supposed to do a lot of it in the summer, when I am also expected to be gearing up for another year of teaching. I’m talking about playing a song at the wrong speed. Moving in the opposite direction...
