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Marc Fagel

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Obsessive music fan, retired securities lawyer, and author of 𝐽𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑦 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐, a love letter to rock & roll ()

San Francisco, CA

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@Marc_Fagel

Marc Fagel

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Four years ago, I decided to hit "publish" on my musical love letter, a personal memoir of an ordinary yet obsessive rock & roll fan that I had no business writing. Many thanks to my fellow music nerds who checked it out and have shared so many kind words.

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Jittery White Guy Music: True Rock & Roll Confessions From a Guy Who Bought the Album

Every rock star seems to have a memoir these days. The first guitar; the drugs and debauchery; the rise, fall, and redemption. But what about the rest of us—the ordinary fans whose own lives were...

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4 years

@LizRNC The Grand Canyon is 86 times the size of Manhattan, yet not a single case reported there... Clearly Arizona is doing great!

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@Popehat Hello, former SEC official here. This is standard in every settlement (has been for decades). The SEC rarely polices it, but most counsel are ethical enough not to let their clients be as brazen about their violations as this.

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My Top 1000 Songs #279 : Keep Me Turning. Pete Townshend has written a lot of songs far more entrenched in the classic rock canon, but this understated bit of folk-rock with Ronnie Lane gently insinuates itself, sweet & humble & no less timeless.

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Massive & gelatinous.

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Best 3 albums released in a row by a band… (do I get bonus points if it’s their ONLY three?)

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Best 3 albums released in a row by a band. My 3:

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@ari_durnell @KevEFly Bought one early in this lock-down for me and my daughter, but didn’t anticipate there’d be such a run on them. Went back online after we finished the first one and everything was sold out or prices ratcheted way up. It was almost easier to come by masks and toilet paper.

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Finally got around to filling up the wall of shame in the home office a.k.a. the man-cave a.k.a. No, honey, you are not hanging those on the living room wall...

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@DaveHolmes Fun article, interesting observations. As the last of a dying breed, I have never stopped buying CDs or burning music to CDs; I'm not willing to trust the cloud or a hard drive or even that old iPod in the drawer. Even if all I do is rip the cd to my PC and file it away.

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My Top 1000 Songs #299 : Terms Of Psychic Warfare. Hüsker Dü concoct the blueprint of the perfect noise-pop song--drop-dead riff, rapid-fire solo, pointed break-up-themed lyrics--then run it through the sonic blender and crank it up to 11. Goodnight baby!

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the new game is to replace every new yorker cartoon caption with "Jeffrey Toobin took his dick out on a Zoom call."

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@FrankLuntz Weird. It’s almost like Fox’s decision to prop up a fascist president who fuels disdain for the media and journalism is having adverse consequences. Who could have seen that coming?

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@stefanvonimhof @CaseyNewton The universe desperately needs more Margin Call references. (Beyond the basic “so… you’re a rocket scientist.”)

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@toxicorange66 @PhizLair Actually, that's not why we do it. Here, let me explain the real reason...

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My Top 1000 Songs #178 : They Don't Know. The perfect pop song, with the late great Kirsty MacColl oozing girl-next-door charm. If you don't melt when she hits that high-note "baby," there's just no hope for you...

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1000 Great Songs #599 : Green Grow The Rushes. Back into the deep well of @remhq songs, peak jangle from Peter Buck, the chiming guitar & Stipe's wistful vocals making a pointed political song sound downright cheerful.

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@NellSco @djrothkopf I’m certain every single person in Slovenia speaks better English than the First Lady’s husband.

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@The_Law_Boy I was taught not to judge a book by its cover. Still, if you told me someone clerked for Edith Jones & Clarence Thomas, is in the FedSoc, works at Jones Day, and has a cellar full of fetuses, and then asked me to picture his face… it’d totally be the spitting image of that guy.

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5 years

Today's album pick of the day Monkees with your Head. @TheMonkees @TheMickyDolenz1

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My Top 1000 Songs #278 : Senses Working Overtime. The definitive XTC blueprint, a skewed, plaintive verse opening up into a glittering, irrepressibly joyful sing-along chorus. Tension & release, perfectly matched.

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2 years

Today's album pick: I dusted off Berlin, probably the most divisive record in Lou Reed's vast catalog. Yes, it's dark and bombastic, and I get why some fans reject it; me, I don't play it often, but I'm firmly in the love-it camp. How 'bout you? @LouReed

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3 years

The new coasters have arrived.

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1000 Great Songs #598 : The Frug. The modest debut of @jennylewis & Rilo Kiley packs an offbeat indie romcom into a quirky, endlessly endearing little pop gem. Sometimes you just want to add some disarming cuteness to your day.

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@GOPMajorityWhip Guy who sent a letter to the SEC demanding they stop investigating FTX pretty upset the SEC didn’t do enough about FTX.

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@Crystal_Resists @PoliticsInsider This is a non-event. A director suspected of violating the law doesn't evade liability by resigning before a subpoena arrives. (Speaking as a former SEC official.)

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@electricalWSOP For those thinking the Ramones could’ve been halfway decent if only they’d put a little more care into the guitar-playing.

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Saddened to learn of the passing of World Party's Karl Wallinger. There was a period in the early 90s when this made it onto pretty much every mixtape I made. (And if I still made mixtapes, I'd probably still be including it.)

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World Party - Way Down Now

World Party - Way Down NowFrom the album Goodbye JumboReleased: April 1990℗ 2009 Seaviewhttp://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/goodbye-jumbo/id337209635http://www....

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@KevinMKruse Good thing the current President has his entire archives stored on Twitter's servers.

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Today's album pick of the day... better duck, it's a drive-by trucker. @drivebytruckers @pattersonhood

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Today's album pick of the day was the perfect remedy for my sadness at the break-up of the Clash. Big Audio Dynamite's jubilant debut saw Mick Jones & Don Letts crafting a delightfully forward-looking blend of post-punk, pop, and hip-hop. @BigAudioDyn

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1 year

My Top 1000 Songs #236 : Unsatisifed. If the Stones' Satisfaction was the prior generation's definitive statement of youthful existential angst, this was mine. @TheReplacements shed their punk roots and still pull off something viscerally thrilling.

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3 years

There comes a moment in a man’s life when it’s time to shed the awesome 70s beer can collection. I appreciate your kindness in this difficult personal time.

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One of the great things about being an Obsessive Music Fan™ is that you never lose that tingly feeling of discovering a new album that blows you away and all you want to do is share it with the universe. Which I'm gonna do later today, but first I'm gonna play it one more time.

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My Top 1000 Songs #51 : Temptation. An almost alarming number of college weekends began with us cranking up this @neworder epic, shouting out the lyrics as we staggered between parties. Still a go-to rave-up 40 years later. @peterhook @JDNOPICS

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My Top 1000 Songs #285 : Strangers. My favorite @davedavieskinks contribution to @TheKinks canon, a lovely, wistful ballad that long felt like a deeply personal treasure (though of late it seems people are finally catching on). We are not two, we are one...

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Since Uncle Tupelo, I’ve been squarely Team Wilco. But when I do break out the Son Volt, I’m always reminded that Jay Farrar has one of the most singular voices in music.

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My Top 1000 Songs #334 : Fallen Down. The late Epic Soundtracks, drummer from a noisy art-punk band, opens his surprising solo debut with a lush, heart-on-his-sleeve, piano-driven ballad perfectly capturing 70s singer-songwriter sentimentality.

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2 years

@theoaklandpanda @michaelianblack @emilynussbaum @andizeisler Such a classic. McSweeneys offers up some of the finest in Piano Man content. See also:

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Billy Joel Plays “Piano Man” for the First Time At the Bar He Based the Song On

Billy Joel sits at the piano in a smoke-filled bar in 1973. It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday, and he’s just finished performing a new original song ent...

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@KeithOlbermann Oh, sure, laugh all you want, but here in SF it was a wicked-cold 60° and partly cloudy. Who can protest in that?

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My Top 1000 Songs #78 : I Will Dare. @TheReplacements have songs that better showcase Paul Westerberg's songwriting gifts; but this one, more in line with the jangly guitar music I fell in love with in college, first won me over and made me a lifelong fan.

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13 albums to know me by... off the top of my head...

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13 albums to know me by...

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@Steven_Hyden Thank god for the Butthole Surfers.

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4 years

@radtoria Wait, you’re allowed to take your socks off?! Damn, wish I’d seen this book when I was younger.

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2 years

As I get older, I try to be more musically open-minded and less judgmental. But then I’m sitting at the local deli and the Red Hot Chili Peppers come on, and I’m like, this is just the freakin’ worst.

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Each morning, when I log in to Twitter to argue with online friends about which is the best Pavement album, I think to myself how great it would be if the platform became more of a cesspool of racism & misogyny, MAGA/Q conspiracy theory wackjobbery, and deadly Covidiocy. Go Elon!

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My Top 1000 Songs #514 : Medicine Show. Magical elixirs, Clint Eastwood, electropop, and a deceptively simple but infectious guitar figure collide in this delightful @BigAudioDyn stew. We could hear the six-guns sound as they chased us out of town...

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2 years

My biggest takeaway so far is that 95% of the world’s problems would go away if we could just bring Billy Preston in the room.

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2 years

Finally getting out again for live music… and a welcome reminder of the joy of the awesome opener. @ryleywalker taking us into deep space before the Drive-By Truckers bring us back down to earth.

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@ThatEricAlper In The Court of the Crimson King is something I bought almost entirely based on the cover (as a teen back in the ealy 80s). And was pleasantly surprised to discover the music was fantastic.

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My Top 1000 Songs #371 : Looking For Lewis & Clark. @thelongryders deliver the perfect cowpunk single, a rousing shout-along anthem that's as much Clash as Gram Parsons, a twangy blast that instantly takes me back to peak mid-80s college radio.

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3 years

Today's album pick is an early favorite from the Fall, Mark E. Smith's blustery rants bolstered by driving, distinctive rhythms; it's challenging, art-damaged post-punk, but enough songs dig in their hooks to make it hard to look away. #fallfriday

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@ohJuliatweets Bad news: I’m in my 50s and STILL having that dream; you’re never gonna shake it. (Though as a lawyer, I also get the version where I’m late for court and don’t know anything about the case I’m supposed to be arguing. So, variety—yay!)

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Surely I can’t be the only one watching the incredibly cool #ShiningGirls on Apple+? Doesn’t seem to be getting the same buzz as Severance, but it should.

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My Top 1000 Songs #154 : A Million Miles Away. The Plimsouls craft an unforgettable rock & roll nugget that's impossible to pigeonhole--Power pop? New wave? Jangly Paisley Underground revivalism? With that hook, who cares?

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Stand back, everyone! He’s reaching for the Saturday-night-wife’s-out-of-town-had-a-few-beers-firing-up-the-grill prog!

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My Top 1000 Songs #323 : People Who Died. Jim Carroll's tragic yet darkly funny ode to the demise of myriad doomed friends always takes me back to my teen years, shocked & delighted to discover the music percolating outside my suburban musical bubble.

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My Top 1000 Songs #71 : Books About UFOs. The Hüsker Dü ditty is a bit off the beaten path, but it's given me endless joy over the years. Ridiculously catchy pop driven by a barrelhouse piano under a thicket of buzzsaw guitar. Crank it up for big smiles!

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4 years

@BettyBowers What a sad excuse for a fake beard. But Santa looks pretty good.

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5 years

@chrislhayes Contrarian view: I have 1000s of CDs ripped to digital files, which I play from iTunes streaming through an AppleTV. Has worked fine for years. Not sure what happens next, and not excited to make a change...

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My Top 1000 Songs #175 : Beatle Boots. This charming little jangle pop confection from @lovetractorusa was a mainstay on my college radio show, and that disarming falsetto title refrain has been stuck in my head for 35 years.

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My Top 1000 Songs #440 : 7 Chinese Brothers. Every song on those early @remhq records is pretty perfect; this one is just a little bit perfecter. Three seconds in and I may as well be 18 again, hanging in my freshman dorm room, my whole life ahead of me.

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Today's album pick lives up to the "supergroup" tag, as Golden Smog let loose a set of relentlessly enjoyable Americana-tinged pop that stands up respectably alongside anything from the members' full-time gigs in Wilco, the Jayhawks, et al. @golden_smog

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1 year

For the second time in a week, this top-notch website here has flagged a post of mine for referencing The K!nks. Encourage an insurrection at the Capitol, fine; post conspiracy theories about election fraud and vaccines, no problem. But don't namecheck that band!

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My Top 1000 Songs #500 : The Autumn Stone. The Small Faces wrap up their 60s run with a gorgeous folk-flavored ballad that's a lot more Nick Drake than mod; a shame the band split, but what a perfect way to go out (and to close out 2023). @roomforravers

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3 years

@HopOnPopMusic @TonesOfMusic We had Living Colour play a few college parties before their first album, and Vernon Reid was pretty insane. But seeing Ira Kaplan is always my favorite; not the best guitarist from a technical standpoint, but just for what he does with the instrument.

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Sure, any music nerd can rank their top 1000 songs and create matching Spotify playlists. But what kind of lunatic then comes up with alternative playlists comprised entirely of cover versions of the same songs? This lunatic!

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My Top 1000 Songs: The Covers Project (#1-100)

My Top 1000 Songs: The Covers Project (#1-100) · Playlist · 100 songs · 28 likes

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4 years

Today's album pick (a quick hit while I'm out & about) is a personal fave from the past decade, London's Yuck revisiting 90s indie rockers like Pavement and Yo La Tengo and delivering fizzy, skewed guitar rock with clever hooks. Check it out. @Yuckband

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@GMPaiella Don't wanna ruin it, but turns out the perp was thiiiiiis close to going straight, but got pulled in for one last big score.

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Shortlist of bands everyone tells me I'm an idiot for not loving, yet every time I play one of their records, convinced that it will finally click, I end up turning it off part-way through and reaching for a little Big Star or Pavement: 1) The Smiths 2) Steely Dan 3) Radiohead

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@mneelzy I will almost certainly have nightmares about this tonight. Am I the only one who's never been able to think about the Sound of Music the same way since that McSweeney's article?

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@Steven_Hyden All part of Scott McCaughey's nefarious plan to be a part of every band on the planet.

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4 years

Today's album pick is another one from that brief, shining moment when Elvis Costello could simply do no wrong. Always hard to pick favorites, but Get Happy!! offers ridiculously bountiful quantity without sacrificing quality.

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Today's album pick of the day pays tribute to New Order's most underappreciated (and IMHO best) album, the logical continuation of the Joy Division legacy. @JDNOPICS @neworder @peterhook

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1 year

Kicking off my weekend with some Luna. And you?

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@MaraWilson Bad movies are a blessing if, like me, you suffer from chronic insomnia. I’d much rather watch Red Dawn or Road House for the billionth time at 3 am than something requiring actual attention and engagement.

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Today's album pick is a wonderful new release from Australian band Quivers: jangly, melodic pop reminiscent of countrymen the Go-Betweens with plenty of early R.E.M. and some shades of New Zealand's Flying Nun bands. A new fave for 2021. @Quiversam

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@HunterFelt @merrilymaralie Altavista, obviously.

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All My Favorite Songs #29 : Sweet Jane. The Velvet Underground's most commercial song, sure, but oh that hook... Is there anyone alive who, upon hearing Lou sing "Me, I'm in a rock & roll band" didn't wish they were in a rock & roll band, too? @LouReed

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One of those albums so great, yet lacking the universal recognition it deserves, that sometimes when I play it I wonder if I’m just imagining the whole thing.

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2 years

My wife had to leave town for a bit. And as a red-blooded male with the usual needs and vices, left alone in the house, you know what that means… Sonic Youth at ridiculous volume.

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My Top 1000 Songs #184 : In The Street. Yeah, it's time for more @BigStarBand . Another blueprint for the entire power pop genre, this time with more cowbell. "Wish we had, a joint so bad." Tell me about it!

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3 years

Now that I’m 55, I feel comfortable no longer trying to like Radiohead.

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5 years

Today's album pick of the day is indeed Primitive yet Lovely, and if it doesn't make you smile there is something deeply wrong with you. @PRIMITIVESband

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My Top 1000 Songs #467 : San Diego Zoo. @TheMagFields ' Stephin Merritt (on his The 6ths side project) teams up with indie stalwart Barbara Manning for a gentle ditty full of yearning, warm and sweet and mesmerizing. How could I have ever left you?

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4 years

Today's album pick is a bright spot in the long-running career of the quirky Television Personalities, a blend of late 80s jangly British indie pop a la Smiths/Jazz Butcher and the absurdity of Robyn Hitchcock and Syd Barrett, with traces of melancholy.

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1 year

Beyond her astoundingly clever songwriting for @paranoiacs , Elizabeth Nelson offers some valuable insight into the dangerous abuse of copyright law to penalize musicians who build on the past. Scary stuff.

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Opinion | The Ed Sheeran lawsuit is a threat to Western civilization. Really.

Suing Ed Sheeran for using chords that were played by Marvin Gaye is like saying to a painter: You’ll have to pay to use red. Someone else used it first.

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My Top 1000 Songs #284 : Atlantic City. I prefer big booming @springsteen over his stripped-down folk, but I'll make an exception here. Haunting and operatic (plus a great country-rockin' cover by jangle-pop band The Reivers).

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2 years

@Popehat Ha! When I left the SEC for the private sector, I had plenty of clients on the receiving end of that flashlight.

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1 year

Sunday morning Tupelo.

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Marc Fagel

4 years

Listening to the new Flaming Lips, and reminded that sometimes the only way to appreciate an album is to wake up before dawn and play it from start to finish in a quiet house on some kick-ass speakers as the sun comes up. Wish I had more time to take in music that way.

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Marc Fagel

4 years

Wait, I wake up and we're all supposed to be 20 again today? Fine. Here's what you would've found me listening to if you'd dropped by my dorm room when I was 20.

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Marc Fagel

5 years

@alyssalimp Reading this at San Francisco Airport as I contemplate a heaping plate of 10:00 a.m. nachos.

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1 year

@_GuidedByVoices Found his physical therapy regimen.

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Marc Fagel

4 years

Today's album pick had the misfortune of falling between one of history's definitive punk albums and the greatest rock album of all time; but the Clash's 2nd LP still has a few of their finest moments, and remains a riveting pulse-quickener. @TheClash

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Marc Fagel

3 years

@drums_wires @johnpavlovitz @lisaboban I was that weird kid who had the OTHER Farrah poster.

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Marc Fagel

10 months

My Top 1000 Songs #325 : Bittersweet. If you're looking for just one track to capture the mid-80s college radio jangle pop sound, you can't do much better than this delightfully catchy tune from Australia's Hoodoo Gurus. "That used to be my favorite song!"

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Marc Fagel

2 years

@BadLegalTakes Many people don’t realize the 5th Amendment was originally drafted to save resources. If a witness took the 5th, the court could just skip the trial and go straight to sentencing. But now, when even non-guilty people can take 5, we’re stuck with all these time-consuming trials!

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Marc Fagel

4 months

My Top 1000 Songs #519 : That Summer Feeling. Jonathan Richman's wide-eyed wistfulness doesn't always land for me, but he gets the nostalgia just right in this one, a sweet sense of loss. It's gonna haunt you!

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Marc Fagel

1 year

My Top 1000 Songs #263 : Happiness To Go. Boston-based 80s bar band Scruffy The Cat with the ultimate college party tune, designed to be cranked up while bouncing feverishly around a cramped dance floor sticky with spilled Schaefer.

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Marc Fagel

2 years

My Top 1000 Songs #79 : Ceremony. @neworder reworks @joydivision 's final composition, giving Ian Curtis' haunting imagery a propulsive shimmer, @peterhook 's chiming bass reverberating against slashes of guitar wash. Goth meets pop; a wistful party ensues.

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2 months

@perpetua Neil Young's is probably the only one I still listen to. It lacks the novelty of Nirvana and others, since Neil has played unplugged throughout his career, but I love the setlist and it was a great reminder of his vitality after that baffling 80s run.

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