Earth, Wind & Fire – Sunday Morning (1993) In a classic bit of Cassingle Vault good news/bad news, I give you, ladies and gentlemen, an Earth, Wind & Fire single!…
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Jeff Giles
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Bela Fleck – Katmandu from The Bluegrass Sessions: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Volume 2 (1999) Elton John – Razor Face from Madman Across the Water (1971) Ned Massey –…
David Medsker
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Two weeks ago, Dead Milkmen tried to insult us by saying, “You’ll dance to anything by Book of Love.” Today, we officially respond: Goddamn right we will. It’s hard to…
Scraps
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Á‚ Hey everybody. Welcome to the sixth game of Name That Tune at Popdose. Let’s start with the rules: The Rules (subject to modification in future games): Maximum three guesses…
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/QCtwGC5k2g4″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Eric Clapton, “Pretending” (1989) Will: I’ve always felt like this song was the point where Clapton finally began to escape from the…
Zack Dennis
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The last time I went to Tangier, almost two years ago, it was a bit of a disaster. A few weeks before at my first Beverly Hills party, filled primarily…
Jon Cummings
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Silly Republicans: Don’t you know heartland rock is for Democrats? We seem to go through this every election cycle: Another GOP contender tries to trade his corporate-shill reality for some…
John C. Hughes
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The double A-side single had a nice little streak in the late ’70s; Queen alone had two. But one of my favorites didn’t chart nearly as high, and one of…
Mojo Flucke
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The blues, sometimes, is about how big my schlong is. Or, other times, how long me and my monstrous schlong can go in the sack before we blow our top….
Scott Malchus
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As many of you may know, my wife Julie and I fell in love very fast. I knew after our first date that I’d met the woman I would marry…
Jeff Giles
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All right, you’ve listened to us share the sordid details of some of our lowest “romantic” moments — now it’s your turn. But unlike us, you actually stand to win…
Jeff Vrabel
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Ladies, here’s a little-known fact about many guys: If you break up with them, but then don’t leave, they will very possibly assume that you weren’t the SLIGHTEST BIT SERIOUS…
Jeff Vrabel
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There are few things more entertaining on planet Earth than watching a guy who’s recently gone through some sort of emotional distress. I once stopped by a buddy’s place after…
John C. Hughes
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London’s Placebo, recently reduced to a duo due to the departure of drummer Steve Hewitt late last year, have spent the past 14 years garnering equal helpings of praise and…
Taylor Long
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There’s so much to like about the self-titled debut from Tacoma, Washington’s Mono in VCF, it’s hard to know where to start. As a debut, it’s almost too good. Mono…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Looking through my soon-to-be-a-dead-format CD collection, I noticed a few discs that could be labeled arty-farty — or artsy-fartsy, if you like the letter S….
Jason Hare
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Rumors of the death of Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold have been greatly exaggerated. You know the old saying, friends: once a wuss, always a wuss. But you…
Jeff Vrabel
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If there’s anything worse than having your heart broken in high school, when your fragile emotional identity is still developing, probably badly, it’s having your heart broken in elementary school,…
Zack Dennis
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Sometimes, when you’re choosing the soundtrack for an adapted screenplay, the source material hands your songs right to you (such as in the novels High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, and…
John C. Hughes
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Stop. Freeze. Don’t you dare close this window. I know the primal urge to flee and survive is a strong one, encoded in your very DNA, but you must resist….
Ben Wiser
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[He doesn’t write them anymore — in fact, they aren’t even online anymore — but truth be known, it was my good friend Ben Wiser who inspired the original Idiot’s…
Will Harris
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Remember the glory days of Sire Records? There have been precious few major labels with such an exemplary track record — the kind that made you feel like you could…
Taylor Long
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The Anniversary’s “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” is exactly the kind of song that I began “Lost MP3 of the Week” for. However, it’s a music journalist’s nightmare. The…
Dw. Dunphy
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I’m not exaggerating when I say that I’m a big fan of the band Marillion, although I came to be one in a roundabout way: finding a cassette tape of…
Jon Cummings
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Welcome to the first installment of an occasional series that dares you to wallow in the very worst of the very best — or best-selling, at least — singles from…
Jeff Giles
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Siouxsie & the Banshees – Peek-A-Boo (1988) Yes, “Peek-A-Boo” (download) turns 20 this year. You are old, old, so very old. I am too, but I have the slight advantage…
Jeff Vrabel
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Some love stories are full of hideous terror, but some can teach us things, such as that for a not-insignificant portion of the populace, there is apparently something called a…
Jeff Vrabel
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There are a few cold, hard truths in this world: you can’t run for president on the GOP ticket if you’re a thrice-married cross-dresser, the Cubs aren’t going to win…
Dw. Dunphy
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“Everything’s going well,” he said. That was it. No elaborate descriptions of the wonderful future possibilities, the usual spate of self promotion with which he was ordinarily so generous. Just…
Jeff Giles
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Django Reinhardt – Djangology from Verve Jazz Masters 38 (1994) Slade – Run Runaway from Get Yer Boots On: The Best Of Slade (1983) Mike Errico – Someday from Pictures…