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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Sister Sledge: We Are Family

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Cowboy Junkies: ‘Cause Cheap Is How I Feel

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Earth, Wind & Fire: All ‘n All

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Henry “Buzz” Glass: Square Dance Variations Volume I

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    Concert Review: Tool

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    Concert Review: The Mountain Goats

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    Concert Review: Tove Lo/Broods/Alma

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    Discography: MF Doom: Special Herbs

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    Discography: MF DOOM: Operation: Doomsday

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    Discography: MF DOOM: Bl_ck B_st_rds

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    Discography: MF Doom: KMD: Mr. Hood

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    Holy Hell! Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Fixed:: Context Turns 20

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    Interview: Peter Garrett from Midnight Oil

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    Interview: Joseph D’Agostino of Empty Country

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    Interview: Anna Burch

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    Black Sabbath: Vol. 4 (Super Deluxe Edition)

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    Melvins: Working with God

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    Portrayal of Guilt: We Are Always Alone

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    Julien Baker: Little Oblivions

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    Black Sabbath: Vol. 4 (Super Deluxe Edition)

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    Melvins: Working with God

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    Julien Baker: Little Oblivions

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    The Fall: Live at St Helen’s Technical College, ‘81

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    Resequence: Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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    Resequence: Prince: 1999

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    Revisit: Titus Andronicus: The Airing of Grievances

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    Revisit: Amy Grant: Heart in Motion

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    Criminally Underrated: Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest

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    Criminally Underrated: Message in a Bottle

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    Criminally Underrated: The Counselor

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    Cherry

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    The Swordsman

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    Body Brokers

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    The Swordsman

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    Nomadland

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    The Violent Heart

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    Minari

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    Holy Hell! A.I. Artificial Intelligence turns 20

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: A History of Violence

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Home Tag Archives: the smiths

Tag Archives: the smiths

Singers Who Should Have Stayed With Their Bands

By Spectrum Culture Staff
July 7, 2016
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists

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The Greatest Alternative Love Songs of the ’80s

By Spectrum Culture Staff
February 12, 2015
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists

top 20 alternative love songs of the 1980s

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Concert Review: Johnny Marr/Meredith Sheldon

By Pat Padua
November 16, 2014
in :  Concert Reviews, Music, Music Features

Singer-songwriter Meredith Sheldon, currently touring with Johnny Marr, set the tone for the night with her opening set. Performing solo with just an electric guitar, her original songs didn’t register with the audience, but one performance did: a cover of the Replacements’ 1984 classic “Answering Machine.” If anyone had any doubts, that song made it clear that this early show …

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Songs that Saved Your Life: by Simon Goddard

By David Harris
November 26, 2013
in :  Books, Recommended, Recommended Books, Reviews

[xrr rating=4.0/5]I don’t think there is a greater Smiths fan out there than Simon Goddard. In the exhaustive redux of his 2002 tome on the music of Morrissey and Marr, Goddard deeply chronicles the intricacies of the band’s five-year history, reviewing the band’s contentious history in a song-by-song format, abutted with comprehensive appendices that investigate the band’s songs on record, …

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List Inconsequential: The Greatest Greatest Hits Collections (Pt. 3)

By Spectrum Culture Staff
September 5, 2013
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists

20. Talking Heads – Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites “This ain’t no Mudd Club/ Or CBGB,” though Sand in the Vaseline is virtually as authentic as any performance Talking Heads ever put on at their old Manhattan haunts. In fact, that lyric is even delivered in a live cut of “Life During Wartime,” one of two live tracks that …

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The Smiths: The Smiths Complete

By Stacey Pavlick
October 20, 2011
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended Music
The Smiths

[xrr rating=5/5] “Reissue! Repackage! Repackage!/ Reevaluate the songs!/ Double-pack with a photograph/ Extra track and a tacky badge.” Ah, but let’s not be too hard on Morrissey. No doubt when he penned these lyrics all the way back in 1987 as part of Strangeways, Here We Come, he did not envision that one day the vulgar picture being painted would …

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