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Desert Island Discs with Patrick Joseph
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t a fair question, but
Read More »Here’s Something Else!: More Beatles Songs We’re Not Sick Of Yet
The very ubiquitousness of the Beatles can make for difficult wading when you’re trying to remember what made them great in the first place. Well, the movement you need is tucked away inside the
Read More »Greatest Un-Hits: Yoko Ono’s “Walking on Thin Ice” (1981)
This column usually presents semi-obscure or forgotten songs that should have been hits. “Walking on Thin Ice” is different, because if you’re the kind of person with an obsessive enough interest in music to
Read More »Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 Albums, Part 13
Part 13: Private Salt’s Accompanied Spades Unexclusive Solo (2001) What does the title mean? If it isn’t already obvious, my idea for this album name came from the impression that I think Flaming Pie
Read More »Here’s Something Else!: Beatles Songs We’re Not Sick of Yet
The very ubiquitousness of the Beatles sometimes makes for difficult wading when you're trying to remember what made them great in the first place. Here are a handful of deeper cuts that we're not
Read More »Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 Albums, Part 12
Part 12: Flaming Pie (1997) This is where we officially get into the Beatles’ modern era. By this point, the Fabs are a band which fully admits to being less cutting edge than they
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… J-Pop-a-Rama!
Popdose presents four examples of Japanese power pop, courtesy of super-blog Power Pop Overdose
Read More »Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 albums, Part 7
Part 7: Rockestra (1980) As the ‘70s drew to a close, our alternate-reality Beatles found themselves still mostly on top of the world, albeit with more company than they had in the ‘60s. They
Read More »I’ve Got Reissues: The “It’s Halloween, I’ve got my Bob Dylan mask on!” Late Edition
Joseph Jon Lanthier rounds up reissues and remasters for the month of October 2010. Among the rambunctious little doggies lassoed are the Apple Records Box Set and Brute Force's Confections of Love
Read More »Fixing a Hole: The Beatles’ Imaginary Post-1970 Albums, Part 6
What if the Beatles stayed together -- and the best of their solo work ended up on Fab Four albums
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