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The EditoriaList: Top Ten Musical Crimes Perpetrated By Great Artists
posted: November 24, 2011
Top 5 musical crimes perpetrated by Stevie Wonder in the ’80s and ’90s. Go. Sub-question: Is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins… is it better to…
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The EditoriaList: Best And Worst MTV VMA Performances
posted: November 17, 2011
There have been so many live performances at the MTV Video Music Awards that I couldn’t possibly remember them all. But according to a quick sampling, most of them were mediocre, some offensively so. The…
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The EditoriaList: Sub Pop Records, Mach II – Top Ten Releases (aka When Grunge Expired)
posted: October 27, 2011
Sub Pop became famous as the breeding ground for the early-90s alt-rock revolution, home to the biggest bands of the grunge-era bands. Music changed fast, though, and Sub Pop struggled near the end of the…
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The EditoriaList: Ten Totally Righteous Covers
posted: October 20, 2011
A friend of mine suggested some good ground rules for this one: You have to strip out covers of old blues tunes (sorry Stones and Beatles). Also strip out cover bands (sorry Joe Cocker and Nouvelle…
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The EditoriaList: Ten Best Drummers-turned-Singer
posted: October 13, 2011
How do you know there’s a drummer at your door? The knocking keeps slowing down and speeding up. How do you get him to go away? Pay for the pizza. It’s cruel and inhumane jokes…
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The EditoriaList: Top Eight Music Video Fight Scenes
posted: October 6, 2011
Our wonderful Managing Editor Alison is dangerously obsessed with violence and, I hear, is actually in an underground fight club, though she doesn’t talk about that. One day she suggested to me that I do…
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