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Back on the stationary bike listening to my Shuffle, the Junior Vasquez and Dolly Parton version of "Peace Train" came on, and it occurred to me that that song, more than Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" or any other, is the song of the recently concluded election. It's a hopeful, progressive, even utopian song written by a folk singer who subsequently converted to Islam and sung by a coun...
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Last weekend, I watched a DVD of Phish's It festival. In it, the keyboardist, a dead ringer for Spinal Tap's drummer (the one actually with the band for the tour mockumented by the movie), says that their jams often need to go on for five, ten, and even fifteen minutes to get to music that would never be discovered otherwise. And though I have nothing against experimentation, I don't think t...
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Because my iPod Shuffle told you I was. In the course of a half hour workout, it gave me two Pet Shop Boys songs and one by Madonna, though these were interspersed with songs from Phish, Kevin Drew, Tom Waits, and Drive-By Truckers. Still, there's something more than metrosexual about riding a stationary bike in the fitness center of a large media company in Midtown Manhattan with Neil Tennant o
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