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List Inconsequential: Top Breakup Songs
Denial Side “Woke Up New” by the Mountain Goats No other song encapsulates the bitter end to a years-long cohabitation quite like “Woke Up New.” As Mountain Goats creator and frontman John Darnielle gently
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List Inconsequential: Football and the Movies
Varsity Blues (1999) James Van Der Beek as Jonathan Moxon wasn’t the least convincing actor to play a quarterback, but unarguably he’s still guilty of a terrible Southern accent (and a Texan one, at
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List Inconsequential: The Best Pizza in the USA
(Photo: Roger Jones) Gino’s East of Chicago- Chicago, IL On a road trip in 2004 to see Vic Chesnutt at the Old Town School of Folk Music – a performance in which Chesnutt managed
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List Inconsequential: If There is a Hell, This is the Soundtrack
“Gangsta’s Paradise” by Coolio (1995) When I learned of this week’s list topic, my mind immediately went to three songs off of soundtracks: “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion, “I Will Always
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List Inconsequential: Best Musicians Turned Actors
James Taylor in Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Okay, let’s be real: the performance from Monte Hellman’s ’70s anti-road movie that everyone remembers is not James Taylor as the affectless, unnamed driver, but Warren Oates as
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List Inconsequential: Beautiful Songs About Cities
“New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” by LCD Soundsystem (2007) James Murphy, the brilliant sweatpants-clad schlub behind LCD Soundsystem, seemed an improbable frontman. But for 10 years, this producer and
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List Inconsequential: Our Defining Cultural Moments of 2011
Arcade Fire Wins Best Album Grammy Even as a confessed awards show geek, I know better than to put any stock into the value of the Grammys. The preeminent trophy of the recording industry
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List Inconsequential: I’m Not Ashamed: Albums We Still Love (But You Don’t Cos You’re So Cool) Pt. 2
Phish – Live At Madison Square Garden 1995 (2005) I’ve long ago stopped apologizing for loving Phish. If you want, you can focus on the silly lyrics, extraneous issues that surround their scene or
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List Inconsequential: I’m Not Ashamed: Albums We Still Love (But You Don’t Cos You’re So Cool) Pt. 1
Dog’s Eye View- Happy Nowhere – (1995) I haven’t listened to Happy Nowhere all the way through in many years, but whenever a song from that album comes up on my iPod, I never
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List Inconsequential: Lamest Film Villains
The Aliens in Signs Good news for the tinfoil-hatted among us. Those malevolent aliens? Turns out that despite their proclivity for puzzling agricultural art, space invaders are fucking stupid — at least in the
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