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List Inconsequential: Bad Songs From Good Albums
Nas – “Nas Is Coming” from It Was Written Most listeners with even a passing interest in hip-hop are aware that rapper Nas has an absolutely flawless album in his 1994 debut Illmatic. What
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List Inconsequential: Good Songs from Bad Albums
Nirvana – “About a Girl” from Bleach Absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder, and in the years since Kurt Cobain’s suicide Bleach has enjoyed an improved reputation. But don’t let this fool
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List Inconsequential: Echoes: The Best Songs Over 10 Minutes
“Divine Moments of Truth” by Shpongle (10:20) Shpongle (led by Simon Posford) helped introduce America to psyche-trance, and continually creates one of the most multi-sensory live experiences worldwide with a set that almost certainly
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Bob Dylan: Tempest
Robert Zimmerman has been placed on so high of a pedestal by critics and fans alike during his long, strange, unparalleled career that every bit of hyperbolic praise, no matter how over-the-top, seems rather
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Various Artists: Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International
There’s a saying that “nobody sings Dylan like Dylan,” a durable phrase that’s been borrowed for a strange double-album of two previous covers album releases (Good as I Been to You and World Gone
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Bob Dylan in America: by Sean Wilentz
The very first page of Bob Dylan In America is filled, front and back, with praise for Sean Wilentz from Dylan associates and otherwise recognizable names such as Philip Roth, Al Kooper and Martin
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List Inconsequential: Worst Musicians Turned Actors
Bob Dylan in Masked and Anonymous The easy part was picking Bob Dylan for this list. The difficult part was picking his worst acting job; though the performance the stumbling and fumbling, Empire Burlesque-unleashing
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Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964
Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series, Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 Rating: 4.7/5.0 Label: Columbia It’s practically a tradition that each new Bob Dylan Bootleg Series release will be accompanied by complaints from Dylan
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Revisit: I’m Not There
Revisit: I’m Not There Dir: Todd Haynes 2007 Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. There’s something ill-conceived about the life-spanning biopic, especially when we’re talking
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Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart
Bob Dylan Christmas in the Heart Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Columbia Bob Dylan has made a career out of head-scratching moves, whether it be his retreat to upstate New York to record country music, his
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