Joshua R.

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Dokken - "When Heaven Comes Down" from the album Tooth And Nail and Nirvana - "Negative Creep" from the album Bleach

Joshua R. posted an article on - Dec 4, 2009, 8:54 pm
 Even as I continue to creep inexorably towards the Big Five-Oh, I keep finding myself doing little things here and there for no substantive reason other than the assuredly futile pursuit of that...
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"Mystery Train" - Elvis Presley (Sun 223) And Three Other Versions

Joshua R. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 6:20 am
... so deep as an archetype; if you're employing the image of a train as a metaphor for some larger concept, you've likely conjured ... , escape in the face of oppression, for the loss of so...
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The Dwarves - "Fuck You Up and Get High" - From the EP Blood Guts and Pussy

Joshua R. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 6:23 am
The "Machine Messiah" thing got in the way--it was pretty insistent about getting written--but even as I was writing the Lasorda post, I knew that I was gonna end up writing its inevitable musical tie...
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Yes - "Machine Messiah" - From the Album Drama

Joshua R. posted an article on - Nov 15, 2009, 12:43 am
Now here's a song that has no right to be as good as it is . . . . Don't take that the wrong way, however. I grew up with prog, fell in love with it almost as soon as I had my early teen Elt...
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Spoken Word Interlude:Tommy Lasorda on Dick Williams and Kurt Bevacqua

Joshua R. posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 1:48 pm
You know, I tell people that I have a music blog. A couple people even acknowledge it. But it's not true. What I have is a blog about my iPod. The two things are similar, admittedly . . . . ...
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Three Versions of the Jagger/Richards Tune "Rocks Off"

Joshua R. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 9:05 pm
... strangest record all the way through is pretty cool. But that's after I get over my first reaction, which is that Pussy Galore did it first, and probably did it better, plus they did it, like...
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Electric Wizard - "Funeralopolis" from the CD Dopethrone

Joshua R. posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 12:22 am
As our flightless friend next door so insistently reminds us, it can be a difficult thing to try and control the connections that our brains make as we digest the various media that come our way. Our...
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Hüsker Dü - " Data Control" From the Album Land Speed Record

Joshua R. posted an article on - Sep 26, 2009, 11:56 am
Truly a song for the mp3 era 25 years before it arrived, "Data Control" is the kind of track pointed to with satisfaction by those who haven't really minded the Death of the Album: a fantastic son...
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Procol Harum - "The Devil Came From Kansas" from the Album A Salty Dog

Joshua R. posted an article on - Sep 5, 2009, 12:05 am
Three more women were hanged as witches at Union Square last night. Both the county government and the legislature at Sacramento have issued proclamations that declare such acts of vigilantism "cou...
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Queens of the Stone Age - "I'm Designer" from the CD Era Vulgaris

Joshua R. posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 6:24 pm
Like that redneck-chic T-shirt from the '70's said, the Queens of the Stone Age may not be perfect, but parts of their work are excellent. Each of their albums rock solidly, yet each undenia...
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Helms - Robots Are Great, But Are We Ready For Them to Dance on Their Own? - From the CD McCarthy

Joshua R. posted an article on - Aug 26, 2009, 7:06 pm
For a long time now I've been wondering--we've ALL been wondering --what the fuck is postrock, and you know what? I'm still no closer to knowing than I was when I heard Spiderland for the...
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Brian Eno - "Dead Finks Don't Talk" From the Album Here Come The Warm Jets

Joshua R. posted an article on - Aug 19, 2009, 10:04 am
They call Boing Boing "a directory of wonderful things," and when the mods haven't recursively disappeared up their own rectums while on some arcane and cranky civlib/Open Source diatribe, the sit...
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Heavy Metal" - from the CD Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Joshua R. posted an article on - Aug 16, 2009, 1:46 am
Funny, how sometimes a song isn't about what you thought it would be about at all. Take the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah song, "Heavy Metal." All this time I thought it was about, you know, heavy me...
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