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nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:04:16 -0700

What do you do if you just have to hear a specific song right now? If you subscribe to Rhapsody, you listen to it there, but if you don't you go to Seeqpod. Seeqpod will often find the song you're looking for sitting on a website somewhere and s...

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Cruisin' with The Sound Stylistics

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:01:22 -0700

Still cruisin'--here's one that I would like to be my cruising-the-nightlife song, but it has become my de facto crawling-through-traffic song. Which is perfect, because it's so upbeat it gives me the illusion of moving even when I'm not. The So...

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Cruisin' with Bob Musso and Bootsy

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:06:26 -0700

Robert Musso's "All Funked Up" isn't fast enough to be a cruising-down-the-freeway song, so it is my official "cruising-down-the-boulevard-with-the-top-down" song (with the same qualifications as the previous entry, plus there is no boulevard in I...

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Cruisin' with the Greyboy Allstars

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:25:59 -0700

Car-chase music isn't the only good vehicular music genre; simple car driving music can be plenty fulfilling. "Fried Grease" by the Greyboy Allstars with Fred Wesley (1995) has become my official cruising-down-the-freeway-with-the-top-down song. ...

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My First Album

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:54:50 -0700

The first album I ever bought with my own money (which excludes earlier gift albums such as John Denver's Back Home Again) was The Who's Who Are You in October 1978. I listened to it over and over until I believed all the songs were good, but wha...

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Don't Stop Me Now

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:14:42 -0700

I just flew in from England--and boy, are my arms tired! Ba-dum! We made several attempts to listen to the radio over there, which was frustrating. The makeup of British radio is about 70% DJ yammering, 5% listenable music, and 25% crap. But a...

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Joe Crow, and a brief hiatus

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:22:32 -0700

Is there anyone who bought the 1982 Cherry Red sampler LP Pillows & Prayers and didn't fall in love with Joe Crow's "Compulsion"? If you didn't, you must have been some kind of curmudgeon, but that's cool. Ridiculously simple (Joe uses the synth...

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Polyrock

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:33:52 -0700

Polyrock's main claim to fame was their association with Philip Glass, who co-produced and played some of the keyboards on their first album (1980). I was immediately taken by their near-instrumental "Your Dragging Feet" the first time I heard it...

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Experimental Products flexi-disc

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:20:09 -0700

This may be the rarest item in my collection, a 1985 flexi-disc from Terminal! magazine containing "Work the Beat" by Philadelphia-area electronic band Experimental Products. A simple but catchy layering of analog synths and sequencers, the song ...

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Eric Random: the great lost worldbeat album

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:22:28 -0700

Eric Random (Ramsden) had quite an interesting musical trajectory in the 80s. He was from Manchester, but after hooking up with Cabaret Voltaire he became more closely aligned with the Sheffield scene. His first recordings for New Hormones consi...

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