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  Eminem
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  The Slim Shady LP
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  Role Model

...,,,,,Ever since the beginning of the mass media...... the periodic discussion of entertainer as role model has reared it's ugly head. Fire-brand hysteritics foresee crumbling empires in every swear word & cuss. And yet.........an artist creates to elicit a response, a personal reaction within each person that encounters their art. Self expression is only half of communication. So how much...

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........Sometimes it feels like a dream to contend with....an infinte field of dominoes falling, and a brittle sense of nothing on nothing. The Poet said that April is the cruelest month and another Poet said In Creation One's Nature Neither Honors Nor Forgives. Formless questions whirl about ..... ......And we "stumble blindly through the often tangled maze of starless nights & sunless days".....

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• Artist:
  Talking Heads
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  Stop Making Sense
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  Girlfriend Is Better

Dance. Dance. Dance.And not to any old beatEver notice how idea-free and lyrically simplistic most super-hot, fail-safe get-'em-moving dance tracks are? I mean, you can hardly help yourself from rump-shaking to C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," but seriously, it's just a series of short, obvious exhortations to a killer beat sequence.That's one of the reasons I r...

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• Artist:
  Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
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  Etiquette
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  Love Connection

The last thing one wants after the fact is too much information. So goes a song that illustrates by example the lesson it preaches in the end (way down below).Chapped lips. Tongue, kissed.[Insert expletive] fluids of a summer night.With slight duress, forced imperativesfind me quoting Pennington.A delicate blend of sweat and menstrual bloodseeping into trampled grass.On one hand, the original b...

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  Stephen Bruton

Stephen Bruton, a Texas musician long admired and much in demand as much for his astute guitar work as for his insights as a songwriter, died Saturday May 10, 2009 in Los Angeles of complications of cancer. He was 60. That he has never made a MOG post blew my mind. I feel a pang of guilt for this unfortunate circumstance. Because I failed to post and because I failed to acknowledge his passing ...

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• Artist:
  Pat McLaughlin
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  Next 5 Miles

Though Pat McLaughlin may not be on the tip of the average music consumer's tongue, he, for a couple of decades, has been many a musicians' favorite musician. He's even been called the greatest rhythm guitar player on the planet. He plays rhythm — he calls it "chunking" — with some venerated bluegrassers, including Tim O'Brien and Ronnie McCoury. And McLaughlin even got a gig as a rhythm play

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• Artist:
  David Jacobs-Strain
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  Liar's Day

In his mid-20s when this was released in 2008, he sounds like a grizzled veteran and plays with the passion, subtlety, and assurance of musicians twice his age. Produced by Kenny Passarelli who worked on Jacobs-Strain's previous two discs and also contributes bass, the sound is warm and inviting. Joe Vitale, another old Joe Walsh associate, adds drums and keyboards, fleshing out the sound for ...

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