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Five Songs, 6/29/2022

Public Enemy, "LSD" Flavor Flav belting out "cancer!" in the first verse always kills me. Also, I always appreciate it when rappers Remember A Guy, with Nick Van Exel getting name checked here. The Grifters, "Spaced Out" I'm pretty sure that I've lamented this before,...

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Five Songs, 12/5/2021

PJ Harvey, "My Beautiful Leah" Is This Desire? is the album that really completed PJ Harvey's transition from kickass rock artist to just plain ol' kickass artist. Yeah, broadly, this is still a rock record, but she started doing so much more. The arrangements incorporate...

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Five Songs, 8/16/2021

The Streets, "Who Got The Funk?" Is...is it the Streets? The Grifters, "Covered With Flies" I periodically see "forgotten bands of the grunge era" and similar articles, because I'm old and I read old person things. Those articles invariably dig up one or two...

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Five Songs, 11/26/2020

The Grifters, "Spaced Out" By the time the Grifters arrived at this record, album number five, they were recording for a mid-major (Sub Pop), in a real studio, and they were sounding like a real full-on band instead of the ramshackle act they used to...