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Posts by mogqafreak
This Song Has A Dirty Word In It
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And if that makes some people squirm, good. They should grow up. And stop trying to dictate what others should and shouldn't get to see and hear. There. I said it.
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The Frames -- Burn The Maps
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You know them from the Oscar won for the Swell Season (Glen Hansard fornts both bands). I'm realy digging the back catalog.Burn the Maps: A very dark, and bittersweet record. Lots of atmospherics reminiscent of For The Birds. Loud, loud, with amazingly dense quiets.The Frames seem to be name checking 90's American alternative rock: Dream Awake starts with a soaring guitar pulled almost directly f
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Wedding Music Does Not HAVE To Include The Macarena, The Electric Slide, Who Let The Dogs Out?, Something From The "Grease" Soundtrack, Or Any Other Such Cheese...
...seriously, people. Get a DJ who knows what you like and instruct him/her specifically to not play cheesy crud. You like good music. Good music is important to you. Play good music at your wedding!
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Starbucks Stole My 80s
So there's a new Starbuck's CD out called "The Second Wave" and it features some great alternative rock bands from the 80s. That's when the term "alternative rock" had some meaning, until Nirvana came along and spawned "mainstream alternative rock," a contradiction in terms if there ever was one. Not that it was Nirvana's fault, mind you, it was the greedy labels signing and promoting anyone and
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Have You Noticed?
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That since The Arcade Fire broke huge in late 2004, lots of bands have incorporated group shout-along vocals? Besides The Polyphonic Spree and Cloud Cult, who might you add to that list?
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The Breeders Long Lost Gem
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Arctic Monkey Does Shadow Puppets
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Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys has a new album out under the name The Last Shadow Puppets. The album is called The Age Of The Understatement, which has to be ironic.It sounds like Arctic Monkeys with strings and horns. If you like Arctic Monkeys and melodratic cinema scores circa 1968-1974, you will like The Last Shadow Puppets.
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