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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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The EditoriaList: Top Seven Musical Rock Star Progeny
posted: September 29, 2011
It’s always nice to see quality music being made by the offspring of our beloved stars and cultural icons. Most often, we wish the celebrity kids would just go away, taking their vanity projects with…
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The EditoriaList: Best And Worst #1 Singles 2000-2010
posted: September 22, 2011
This was a brutal exercise, listening to at least large chunks of every Number 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 for the years between 2000 and 2010 (I should have stopped at 2009, but I’m…
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