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Top Ten Countdown – Greatest Cover Songs – (# 10 – Eight Miles High by Husker Du)
Authored by Dale NIckey: Number 10 Husker Du – Eight Miles High Approach this version of The Byrds’ classic with the ears of a punk and the sensibility of a forensic investigator. Imagine viewing the muse of Roger McGuinn burnt beyond recognition. On this monumental track, leader/vocalist/guitarist Bob Mould replaces the Coltrane inspired electric 12 string…
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Balls to The Hall (Why The R&R Hall of Fame sucks and why it still matters)
Authored by Dale Nickey: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame continues its reign as the irrelevant pantheon that commemorates all that is famous in the world of …ahem…Rock and Roll. Never mind that many inductees’ connection to the genre is tenuous at best and non-existent at worst. Somehow Bobby Darin, Brenda Lee and The…
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Chris Squire – Founder of Yes – Dies at 67
Word has just come in to The Muse Patrol that Chris Squire, founding bassist of the Progressive Rock band Yes died Saturday after a battle with Leukemia. Squire began his recording career with Yes in 1968; along with Paul McCartney and John Entwhistle, Squire was a key figure in dragging the electric bass out of…
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Book Review – “Clothes Clothes Clothes, Music Music Music, Boys Boys Boys” (Viv Albertine)
Reviewed by Dale Nickey: Postcards from the hedge… At a time when any sane fifty-something housewife and mother would be asking herself, “Is that all there is?”, Viv Albertine shouted, “I want more!”. In case you didn’t know, Viv Albertine was the guitarist and songwriter for the seminal British punk band The Slits. In the late 1970’s, The…
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The Sclerotic Six – Bands that should have called it a day…
Authored by Dale Nickey: Nothing wrong with hangin’ on to yesterday. Rock Music in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s was the big kid on the block and still in the process of inventing itself. Many of the bands on this list took body blows from the Punk and New Wave movements in the late 70’s…
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Morning Music Funnies # 6 – (Kate Bush and Mr. Bean)
After The Beatles disbanded in 1970, a long estrangement began between the British and American music industries. No longer was it automatic that British superstars would be unconditionally loved by the American record buying public. In the late 70’s, Kate Bush achieved a level of fame and ubiquity that totally bypassed the American market. After her debut…
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Morning Music Funnies – # 5 (Steve Coogan and Bjork) – “Short Term Affair”
On this 1997 Comic Relief number, famed British comic Coogan and Icelandic Pop Icon Bjork team up for “A Short Term Affair”. Bjork reveals her affinity for Broadway as she and Coogan have a hoot and a half for charity. A different side to Bjork we seldom see.
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Lost and Found – Lene Lovich (The Mata Hari of Rock)
Authored by Dale Nickey: Britain in the late 70’s was the place to be if you were a strong, creative and unusual woman artist. 1977 gifted the world with Kate Bush, 1978 brought us Chrissie Hynde. Finally in 1979, a braided, shrieking, East-Euro dervish of a woman kicked the door off its hinges and twirled into our consciousness like…
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BJORK – “VULNICURA” (ALBUM REVIEW)
Authored by Dale Nickey: ,,,,this time it’s personal….. The album “Vulnicura” represents a return to Bjork’s musical core elements. Those being, voice, strings and beats. The most obvious antecedent to this new work would be Bjork’s fifth album “Vespertine”. However, where “Vespertine” chronicled a contented solitude and retreat to the interior world of home; this new record examines – by torchlight –…
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Morning Music Funnies # 4 – Nina Hagen vs. Don Rickles (The Merv Griffin Show)
Nina Hagen can stake credible claim to the sobriquet “Godmother of Punk”. Her back-story reads like an espionage novel. Hagen was born and raised in East Berlin during the cold war. Her paternal grandfather died in a Jewish concentration camp. Her mother was a professional singer who would remarry when Nina was 11 years old.…
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