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Five Songs, 4/22/2021

Eddie Floyd, "Don't Tell Your Mama (Where You've Been)" We Love Song Titles (With Parentheticals)! The Books, "Smells Like Content" Can I engage in some old-fart bloviating? Of course I can, nobody else has the password to this site so nobody can stop me! The...

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Five Songs, 4/1/2021

Leatherface, "Mush" Well, we're back at Leatherface, and I once again confront my opinion that this basically sounds just like late 80s/early 90s southern California punk, except for the vocals. And I'm not wild about the vocals. We need to get Dave Smalley involved...

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Five Songs, 3/27/2021

fIREHOSE, "Sophisticated Bitch" We've had this Public Enemy cover before, so bonus song today! The Hidden Cameras, "Music Is My Boyfriend" You know, I have this band squirreled away in my brain as "extremely twee, not my favorite", and so I haven't listened to this...

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Five Songs, 3/22/2021

The Emotions, "My Honey And Me" This comes to us from early in the third phase of Stax Records' life, after they reached an arrangement with CBS Records. This period still contains plenty of fantastic songs, but Stax was also on a slow decline. Luckily...

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Five Songs, 3/15/2021

Frederick Knight, "Trouble" Hell yeah, that's the stuff. Front 242, "Gripped By Fear" This is from a remix EP called Mixed By Fear, containing remixes of songs from Tyranny For You. It's every bit as forgettable as that sounds, and is incredibly inessential. El Michaels...