Posted Wednesday 04/01/2009 5:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
We’re not saying that a cool logo makes a rock band, but it sure doesn’t hurt … Well, unless you’re Mr. Mister.
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Posted Friday 04/25/2008 12:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
Sometimes, when music meets celluloid, we get
This Is Spinal Tap or
DiG!. Most of the time, we don’t.
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Posted Monday 12/17/2007 12:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
Holy crap — do you have any idea how many Christmas songs there are? Radio stations and in-store systems have been playing
“Fairytale of New York” and
“Father Christmas” since Labor Day, so it’s likely that you've had to restrain from killing yourself on more than one occasion. Hey, our ears are numb and bleeding, too. Here's 10 reasons why ...
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Posted Monday 12/03/2007 12:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
Sometimes, when music meets celluloid, we get
This Is Spinal Tap or
DiG!. Most of the time, we don’t.
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Posted Wednesday 11/28/2007 12:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
It takes two to make a thing go right? Uh, no.
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Posted Wednesday 10/10/2007 12:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
Rock critics react to new releases by Sting and Styx the way the lions of the Serengeti react to inattentive gazelles. And yet no profession has a wider blind spot when it comes to their evaluation of certain acts, often of the living-legend variety. So what are the artists and records that make critics trip over their
zeitgeists and their
melodic poets of the apocalypse and the rest of their fancy smart-head talk? Here are the 10 most alternately overpraised and critic-proof records in rock history.
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Posted Thursday 09/27/2007 1:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
Rock critics react to new releases by Sting and Styx the way the lions of the Serengeti react to inattentive gazelles. And yet no profession has a wider blind spot when it comes to their evaluation of certain acts, often of the living-legend variety. So what are the artists and records that make critics trip over their
zeitgeists and their
melodic poets of the apocalypse and the rest of their fancy smart-head talk? Here are the 10 most alternately overpraised and critic-proof records in rock history.
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Posted Thursday 09/06/2007 1:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
Most NFL stadium music coordinators stopped listening to new songs and bands in 1996, which has rendered the game-day experience almost entirely generic. We realize that they’ll never play the song most appropriate in this era of athlete DUIs and 11-Yuengling tailgates — The Handsome Family’s “Drunk by Noon” — but some variation is clearly in order. Now that the 2007 season has officially kicked off, we humbly propose abolishing the following stadium mainstays and replacing them with, uh, more eclectic fare.
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Posted Tuesday 07/17/2007 1:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
We've assembled our favorite Web versions of pop hits. Oh, Zanger Bob, you'd have been on this list — if we only knew what you were talking about.
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Posted Tuesday 07/10/2007 1:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
This just in: Most songs make no damn sense. Disagree? Allow us to convince you otherwise with our genre-by-genre look at some of music’s most specious lyrical assertions.
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Posted Tuesday 04/24/2007 12:00 AM in
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Larry Dobrow
Most covers of classic modern-era songs practically announce themselves — you know, like when Diddy erases Sting's "Every Breath You Take" vocal and grafts his own rap atop the existing track. Some artists, happily, are a bit more subtle about it. Hence our list of songs you didn't know were covers — hope we're not spoiling any secrets here.
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Posted Wednesday 03/28/2007 1:00 AM in
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If we had the skill and cojones to close major league baseball games, we’d likely choose something semitopical as our entrance song — say, Roy Orbison’s “It’s Over” or the Prodigy’s “Firestarter.” Alas, pitchers and fans alike respond less to lyrical frivolity than they do to
LOUD BOOM DRUM SMASH SMASH. Along those lines, then, here are the most memorable, if not the coolest or twangiest or most appropriate, closer entrance songs in recent MLB history.
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