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#820: O is for Of Montreal
I’ve pulled this album out, the only one I have by this American psychedelic pop “band” called Of Montreal, which is really the creative…
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#819: N is for Nyro, Laura
Another mysterious album in the collection gifted to me by my artist and musician friend Curtis.Here’s a songwriter that I would have heard about, whose…
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#818: N is for Numan, Gary
Telekon, Gary Numan’s fourth album, the second album post Tubeway Army, begins with the most crushing slow rock synth groove of “This…
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#817: N is for Nilsson, Harry
Before I became educatedabout this guy, if you would havetold me that “Coconut” (you know, put the lime in the____ and call mein the morning)…
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#816: N is for The New Pornographers
They are one of only a few artists or bandsthat jump-started their career during the 21st century whose entire catalog has found its way into my CD and vinyl…
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#815: N is for Newman, Randy
My first introduction to Randy Newman, as a 13 year old boy of diminutive stature,was “Short People,” and then, probably decades later, it was…
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We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Celebrate the Arrival of the New Turntable Baby
I ordered an Orbit Theory from U-turn Audio last Wednesday (while I was still in Massachusetts) from one of my neighborhood record stores here in Portland…
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A Single Dispatch from Wally Camp, AKA the Walking Stick* Hereafter, Mt. Holyoke College, 2026
It is Saturday morning. I’m at a tall table in a kind of lounge area inside the Kendade Science Hall on the campus of Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley…
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#814: Walking to Breakfast with Mark
for Mark Solomon He had written a note to a friend,inviting her to tonight’s reading on the occasion of being back after a two-year absence from this…
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We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Talk About New Music (A-M), Turntables, and Writing as an Avoidance Strategy Against Writing
I started the listening challenge of moving my way through every record in the collection by artist from A-Z, in large part, because I felt that I was…
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#813: M is Still for The Mountain Goats (20, 21, 22, 23, 25)
Prologue The last five albums in my collection of records by The Mountain Goats bringsme to the end of the letter M and a littlepast the half way point of my…
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#812: M is for The Mountain Goats (15, 17, 19)
The next three albums in my MountainGoats collection, consecutively released, serve as a tidy little trilogy. Unrelated to each other, but I’m guessing…
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#811: M is for The Mountain Goats (02, 05, 12)
Prologue Rivaled only by XTC, The Flaming Lips and David Bowie, a tie with the formertwo artists and lagging a full mittful of albums behind the…
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#810: M is for Mould, Bob (with Sugar)
The first in a series of box sets chronicling the entire recordingoutput of the grandfather of grunge, Bob Mould, Distortion: 1989-1995contains his first two…
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#809: M is for Mother Mother
I find almost nothing more exciting than hearing a great new band for the first time. In this case, not a “new” band, but new to me, and my…
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#808: M is for The Motels
The two tunes by The Motelsthat are part of my musical memory are the breakthrough hits, “Only the Lonely” and “Suddenly, Last…
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#807: M is for Morrissey
This one is troubling, this entry about the British singer Morrissey, who emerged into fame during the 80’s with the mopey rock outfit, an undeniably…