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Rob Smith
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Rob Smith meditates on memory, music, and the Beatles in “The Vinyl Diaries.”
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J.A. Bartlett
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“I’ll finish you all now! You’ll pay!” So said Paul McCartney to Ringo Starr when Ringo tried to convince Paul to hold his solo album release so it wouldn’t conflict…
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Rob Smith
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Rob Smith’s “Vinyl Diaries”: Billy Joel, “The Nylon Curtain”
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Chris Holmes
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It seems just about every musical style gets recycled whether it deserves it or not. Here are five genres that definitely do.
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J.A. Bartlett
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It must be great to be Paul McCartney. All that fame, all that money. And it must be terrible, too, because you have to compete with Paul McCartney, and a…
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J.A. Bartlett
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Certain albums in this series present a particular challenge, as we’ve noted before: What can one say that’s fresh about some of the most famous albums ever recorded? For that,…
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Ken Shane
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“We made it up as we went along,” McCartney said. Sadly, it often shows.
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Matthew Bolin
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A day late and more than a dollar short, here are my choices for the Top 10 Paul McCartney solo deep cuts.
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Dan Wiencek
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Want the whole story? Here it is, come and … oh never mind.
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J.A. Bartlett
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When I’m playing Abbey Road, I almost always pass them by.
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Brian Boone
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The Beatles are kind of always in the not-distant background, as they are the goddamn Beatles. But every five years or so, there’s a major resurgence in Beatles interest, popularity,…
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Brian Boone
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For the past five years or so, Brooklyn-based rich kids hipsters and indie rockers are two sides of the same coin, or at least that’s the public perception or cultural…
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Popdose Staff
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Another Wednesday, another batch of AM Gold for your listening pleasure. This week rolls on with the third installment from 1964.
Allison Johnelle Boron
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Famed bass players the likes of Brian Wilson and Will Lee have all flipped their instruments of choice in tribute to Phil ”Fang” Volk, best known as the grinning bassist…
David Allen Jones
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Fewer people are asking that question these days thanks to the 2006 documentary which, against all odds, John Scheinfeld spent several years assembling and which seemed to take even longer…
Popdose Staff
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We wrap up our look at Time-Life’s AM Gold: 1962 compilation this week, and learn just how popular death songs were back then.
Mark Feldman
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Popdose concludes the ever-popular series that imagines a Beatles world without a breakup.
Bob Cashill
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Manufactured-on-demand discs bring the rockin’ 60s artifacts Hold On! and How I Won the War to light.
Something Else! Reviews
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The Beatles, just as their creativity went supernova, quit the road in 1966 — frustrated over the inability of that period’s sound systems to amplify the increasingly complex work spinning…
Something Else! Reviews
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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…
Jason Hare
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After a three-month hiatus, Jeff, Jason, and Dave are back to rip apart a Billboard Top 10 from 1985. It’s the Popdose Podcast, Episode 16: CHART ATTACK! Edition!
Brian Boone
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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…
Something Else! Reviews
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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 sick of yet.