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Five Songs, 7/23/2022

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Joshua Buergel on July 23rd, 2022

The Afghan Whigs, "Neglekted" I always wonder a bit about song titles like this one. What does the spelling here represent? It's not a common alternate spelling or anything, so what was it that they were choosing to capture here? A mystery that might be...

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Five Songs, 9/21/2021

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Joshua Buergel on September 21st, 2021

Swans, "Half Life" It's stuff like this, from the early Swans career, that really drives home how appropriate the "no wave" label was for this. It just oozes nihilism. Mos Def, "Mr. Nigga" From Mos Def's great first solo record, part of one of rap's...