
The Melvillain Blog Oh, I see. You're witnessing by pretending you're murderers and misanthropes. Then, when kids listen to the lyrics the joke's on them. They've heard the good word of the Lord. Genius.

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The Melvillain Blog Crusty old composer complains about the end of music and the great unwashed masses. *yawn*
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There's plenty of music already. Why bother doing anything new?

The Melvillain Blog An early precursor to the Manic Street Preachers. A bit derivitive, but not bad.
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Another Bolshoi blast from the past. This video was very cheap to make, but I absolutely love it...especially the reactions from the people walking by.. Bolshoi - Sunday Morning by V. Watch it on MySpace Videos.

The Melvillain Blog Led Zeppelin from Wonderland
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Jane's Addiction - Three Days {Live In Milan} 10-11-90

The Melvillain Blog Some of the best music writing of the year is happening at Monitor Mix.
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A new mix album of mine was released this week. I'm told it is in stores, Google reveals sites in Romania and the Netherlands who've pirated it already, and you can purchase it online, legally, in a variety of digital formats. ...

The Melvillain Blog In which I take the Strokes to task for co-opting the Buzzcocks look and sound.
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"Everybody's Happy Nowadays"Singles Going Steady (1979)BuzzcocksSince the Strokes' Is This It? is appearing on so many Best of the 00's lists, I feel it is my duty to point out the flaws in their music.Exhibit ...

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If you read my Lady Gaga post (below), I think you'll find this interesting also. Kim Gordon: "'The idea of women empowering themselves by becoming sexual objects is
backward. It seemed brilliant at one point, but it had really bad
ramifications. Things lose their context so quickly.'"
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Like countless others, I watched Britney Spears' meltdown in early 2007 with an obsessive eye. What did it mean that her decline had been allowed to get to this point? Princess Diana-style paparazzi filmed her cracking up, and we watched it on YouTube. ...

The Melvillain Blog In which I tear the Strokes a new one by comparing them to the Feelies.
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"Away"Only Life (1988)The FeeliesSince the Strokes' Is This It? is appearing on so many Best of the 00's lists, I feel it is my duty to point out the flaws in their music.Exhibit 1: The Feelies "Away".The Feelies are obviously channeling Lou Reed with a dash of Modern Lovers on this song. ...

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Rare achival footage showing the GENERALISIMO and his cadre's saving us from the brink in another episode of twisted mechanisms and untold duplicity

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' 'Is This It' has topped the 100 Greatest Albums Of The Decade list in the new issue of NME magazine out tomorrow (November 18).The 2001 debut album by the New York band was voted top of the pile by a ...

The Melvillain Blog What a surprise, piracy starts a cultural revolution.
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Two major news outlets, NPR and CNN, are covering in varying yet similar fashion the handful of Chinese bands coming to the US, both wondering if the whole Communist stigma will affect the Western-influenced bands’ reception in the US. As long as the music sounds good, right?

The Melvillain Blog Until I saw this video, I wasn't all that interested in Lady Gaga as an artist, but I find myself intrigued by this video. I'm looking forward to seeing what else she comes up with. More thoughts are here: http://bit.ly/2N20lU Jason Louv at Dangerous Minds take: http://bit.ly/TzXnk
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