SHELF LIFE
Los Angeles is for all intents and purposes the center of the rock & roll universe. And for those who know anything about the history of the city's great love affair with those who like to rock, they know that Laurel Canyon has a gravitational pull.
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1. "Bo Diddley" by Bo Diddley:
How many songs are named after
the artist themselves, even if they use a pseudonym? This is one of the
great rhythmic accomplishments of the modern world, and developed a
whole new beat to keep listeners jumping.
Pet Clark said it and I believe it: It’s a sign of the times--the way the two discs of this DVD reflect their respective eras and adamantly refute each other. As Billy F Gibbons points out on the latter, “The sound stays pretty much the same; we’re pretty consistent.”
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After much reflection on the past year, it occurred to me that the only valid Top 10 list I could provide would be the most played songs on my laptop’s iTunes. Analyze the sonic-boomer trends and note the lack of current releases if you must, but don’t forget to enjoy the songs too.
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Taxonomy is a bitch. Especially if the subject you’re trying to slot into a classification is Ian Whitcomb, whose chief achievement in most folks’ minds is the relentlessly rockin’, sublimely over-the-top Brit Invasion hit “You Turn Me On” (1965).
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Just glancing at the title Elvis 75: Good Rockin' Tonight put me in mind of previous compilations that tried to recast their subjects as unreconstructed wild-man rebels...
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Specifically, I chose the "year" tab as the means of sequencing these 257 tracks, so that they descend in order from 2000 through 2009.
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I Slept with Joey Ramone is not just a memoir of one of rock's most influential lead singers; it's a psychological study about brothers and what modest sums of money and worldwide fame can do to a relationship.
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The critic Robert Palmer never would have been confused with the sex-symbol rock star of the ‘80s who shared his name. The writer was a slight, quiet Southerner with a myopic, somewhat mole-like aspect...
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I remember attending a songwriters' panel at the South X Southwest Music Conference in 1993. Four shaggy, baby-boomer guys sat in a semi-circle of chairs, acoustic guitars sitting in their laps.
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When it comes to biographies, sometimes the first cut is the deepest. After all, people are still diving into Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson more than 200 years later, and it's unlikely that Beth Peters' True Brit: The Story of Singing Sensation Britney Spears will ever be deposed as the definitive portrait of that subject.
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