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Thanksgiving is upon us once again, and you know what that means: Dinner, and awkward interaction with little-seen family members. And then dessert. Because let’s face it — without food we might as well just call each other and have awkward silences over the phone.
And the cinema is no ...
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Lily Allen
Catherine
Peter Gabriel
Gamblor suffered through another mildly disappointing week, dropping $29 on a weighted win percentage of 46.2%. For the second week in a row, the hedge bets served their purpose admirably, helping to mitigate the occasional havoc caused by wayward flip bets, but the computer’s big bet on ...
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First and foremost, I would like to extend a hearty thank you to frequent Popdose reader and commenter King of Grief, who volunteered to take my individual mp3 files for these mixes and stitch them back together so y’all don’t have to download the songs one by one. Take a bow, ...
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Fatboy Slim
Kylie Minogue
Moby
Robbie Williams
Pet Shop Boys
U2
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hipster cred, The Drift is an album that will...
be claimed by many who have never heard it. One-time superstar Scott Walker remains as perturbing, disturbing, impenetrable, and brilliant as ever. ...
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Glad you stopped by for the third week of artists whose names begin with the letter S, as we continue looking at the bottom three-fifths of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s.
S-Express
“Theme from S-Express” — 1988, #91 (download)
S-Express totally baffles ...
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The Feeders
Paul Simon
Cat Stevens
It’s dark in here. Really dark. That’s probably for the best, because it makes it hard to see the creepy and crawly things. The slick and the slimy things. And that’s just the characters at the bar. The place smells like a unique blend of stale cigarettes, cheap perfume, and ...
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Tom Waits
Doom
At the beginning of this decade, sax player Neal Sugarman and bassist Gabriel Roth founded Daptone Records in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. They put together a studio in a small house there, and since then they have turned out a variety of soul, r&b, gospel, and funk recordings. ...
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Amy Winehouse
Budos Band
Norah Jones
Peter Gabriel
Americans have a unique phobia about taxes. Years ago, politicians told us that we could have more stuff by paying less money, and we liked that. And so, we believe it despite all evidence to the contrary. And now, our country faces massive deficits and a budget that cannot be cut.
The choice ...
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Annie
As we enter the home stretch of the Parlour to Parlour journey, the artists preceding some of these final episodes became important to me not just for musical enjoyment, but also for their suggestions and recommendations, whether intended or not. In the case of the Cobra Lilies, it was ...
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Monolators
The first sound you hear on Angie Stone’s fifth album, Unexpected (Stax/Concord), is a sample of Sly & the Family Stone’s “Family Affair,” the hit single from that band’s fifth album, There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1971). The R&B veteran promises ...
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Tahiti 80
Angie Stone
Joss Stone
Stephanie Mills
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The thing I love about Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) is that it’s a holiday devoid of the trappings of Christmas. You don’t have to buy gifts for people, no worries about “the pressure” felt this time of year, and no elaborate decorations ...
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Vince Guaraldi
Sting
Ray Davies
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As Jason Hare joked in his most recent
Chart Attack! , radio’s influence has taken a remarkable...
tumble in the last several years. For a number of reasons, many of them problems created by the radio and music industries, people don’t turn ...
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Hello. And goodbye, unfortunately.
This will serve, for the time being anyway, as my final Cover Me. Cold, hard reality is beckoning, so I must put my toys aside and be a grown-up for a change. But don’t worry, Cover Me will continue. You will be in the very capable hands of Michael ...
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FIREHOUSE
TITLE: “Don’t Treat Me Bad”
ALBUM: Firehouse
RELEASE DATE: Aug. 21, 1990
Why You Remember Them: For one of two reasons: Either for their two-ply, baby-soft semi-rocker “Don’t Treat Me Bad,” in which our protagonist testifies, at some length, ...
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Mr. Bungle
Big Boi
We’re gathered together today at the Popdose dinner table to fill ourselves with the bounty of goodness from local farms and our communal garden out back (and, later, we shall light up and pass around the bounty from our favorite part of the communal garden). The bird is lovely, juicy, ...
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Whitesnake
David Coverdale
Rob Zombie
Jimmy Smith
The first album I ever bought with my own money (earned, I think, by babysitting for one of the neighborhood kids) was a two-cassette version of Chuck Mangione’s 1978 concert recording An Evening Of Magic: Live At The Hollywood Bowl . This album, if you’ll forgive my salty language, kicks ...
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Larrikin Love
Last year’s Thanksgiving-timed Popdose 100 proved so popular that this season we’ve compiled three critical-consensus lists for your reading (and arguing) pleasure — documenting our choices for the best films, albums and songs of the 21st century’s first decade. In fact, ...
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Scott Walker
Bob Dylan
Someone at Columbia Pictures has it in for us. Besides the demolition derby of 2012 the studio also recently released the end-of-the-Earth horror comedy Zombieland and Angels & Demons , whose plotters have an admittedly more modest goal—the destruction of the Vatican and a deathblow to the ...
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The Angels
Dan Deacon
Bob Dylan
The Criterion Collection has an agreement with IFC Films to put some of its more noteworthy acquisitions on DVD, and so we have Matteo Garrone’s outstanding Gomorrah . I reviewed the film back in March . Earlier this year I didn’t feel ready to commit to a proper Top 10 list for films released ...
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Bob Dylan
BOTTOM LINE: Traditional musical theatre at its best.
It wasn’t really time for a revival of Ragtime . The new musical first opened on Broadway in 1998 and ran for two years. It was mostly well received, winning Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical as well as Best Score ( Lion King ...
