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Five Songs, 7/15/2022

Cobalt, "Gin" Gin, that's a very good idea. Television, "Friction" Forever the song before "Marquee Moon". The Beatles, "I Me Mine" We're skewing old today, which is fine, because I am old. So old. Fine, I'll say something more: Let It Be has some memorable...

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Five Songs, 4/25/2022

Television, "See No Evil" There have been bands as cool as Television was when they released Marquee Moon, but I'm not sure there have been any cooler. SWANS, "In My Garden" On Children of God, Jarboe's contributions to the band were placed much more at...

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Five Songs, 1/19/2021

Television, "Venus" Television's Marquee Moon is a landmark album for good reason. It's a key album in establishing post-punk, with its sophisticated winding guitars and complex songs. But anybody who describes Television always makes it sound so much more clinical and cerebral than it really...

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Five Songs, 5/15/2018

Great stuff! They Might Be Giants, "What Is A Shooting Star?" You know, now that I'm doing this on a platform with a functional tagging system, I could have just tagged each of these entries with each band, and then I wouldn't need the index....