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Five Songs, 4/14/2022

Well, this blog officially turns five today! There have been 1137 posts on this site, if my tagging is to be trusted, so a pace better than every other day. More than five thousand little capsules on songs and bands, and that's a...

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Five Songs, 10/21/2021

The Busters, "Candy" The Busters are from Germany, which was a little bit of a hotbed of two-tone-styled ska in the late 80s/early 90s before the third wave really got rolling. The Busters were never serious about anything, and sometimes the goofiness...

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Five Songs, 5/6/2021

Wire, "Practice Makes Perfect" The second Wire album, Chairs Missing, was a little less frenetic than the debut record. Many of the songs are given more room to develop, with a little bit more of a drone-y feeling to some of the songs....

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Five Songs, 4/9/2021

Monobody, "Country Doctor" Monobody is one of those bands that has a real mismatch of names. For whatever reason, I don't think this should be a math-rock/post-rock kind of band. "Monobody" seems like it should really be a...