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By the way, doing something like looking at your old top 100 -- but alphabetized, unranked, in an Excel sheet -- to make your top 50, and looking at your old top 150 in the same manner to make your top 100, can produce a few small wonders. It's apparent that my old rankings had gotten a little too c...

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"Sometimes one of the most radical things you can do is to speak clearly. When someone dies, out come the usual blandishments … as if their death is there to be used. I'm not prepared to do this with Andy. I just hope … wherever Andy has gone … that he's OK. He will never die as long as his mus...

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I didn't think the four of them would reunite (maybe Marr and Morrissey). Now it's definitive. Rourke had also taken legal action for royalties, though it wasn't the big court case that Joyce's suit became.

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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Veteran’s Day Poppy

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To the squeamish, this is one of your only shots at liking this album.

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The Pretenders Announce New Album ‘Relentless,’ Share First Single ‘Let the Sun Come In’ Their new single is out today, three years after their last album. Amazing that Chrissie Hynde keeps chugging along. https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/the-pretenders-announce-new-album-relentless-share-first...

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Inductions announced Performer Category Kate Bush Sheryl Crow Missy Elliott George Michael Willie Nelson Rage Against the Machine The Spinners Musical Influence Award DJ Kool Herc Link Wray Musical Excellence Award Chaka Khan Al Kooper Bernie Taupin Ahmet Ertegun Award Don Cornelius https://www.rock...

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R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot, who passed yesterday https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/WreckEdmundFitzgerald.jpg [From High Fidelity film] Barry: Top 5 songs about death. A Laura's Dad tribute list, okay? Okay. Leader of the Pack. The guy fuckin' beefs it on his motorcycle and dies, right? Dea...

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U2 - Elevation

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This used to be effortless for them.

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The Kinks – Afternoon Tea

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R.I.P. Harry Belafonte. His Calypso album was #1 for 31 weeks, and was the first Long Play record album to sell over one million copies. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Belafontecalypso.jpg Bob Dylan's very first recording session involved him playing harmonica for Belafonte (for &quo...

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Sign o' the Times (1987) I didn't even notice I was doing it, but I finally got around to this concert film right around the time of the anniversary of Prince's death. It's more like I'm on a fairly regular intake of Prince. My listening material lately is the three discs of outtakes from the Super...

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band -- Thrill Hill Vault Houston '78 Bootleg: House Cut This 176-minute DVD comes with the Darkness on the Edge of Town box set. As the title suggests, the sound quality is kind of subpar. It doesn't really matter, though. It was fairly late in life that I realiz...

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High Fidelity (2000) This one hits too close to home! John Cusack plays a music junkie (Rob), working at a record store with Jack Black (playing a character, I guess, Barry), and another employee (Dick), who looks utterly bewildered by human interaction. There is a lot of music junkie talk througho...

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Prince passed away seven years ago, on April 21st.
It is in fact scheduled to snow in April today in Minneapolis...

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Christopher Walken turns 80 today. To mark the occasion, here is his famous "More Cowbell" skit. It originally aired on April 8, 2000, incidentally back when I paid precious little attention to politics. (You might have noticed in the last 24 hours that the 45th president got himself indic...

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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Higher Ground

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From listening to their What Hits!? compilation, this seemed like the one time the band justified its existence in the '80s.

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If you heard a punk rock SST album from the early '80s, you remember the name Spot. I didn't know he was a kind of '80s Tom Wilson (i.e. a black producer working with a lot of white rock acts). SST Records Producer Glen "Spot" Lockett Dead at 72 https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/sst-rec...

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50 years. Among the top 5 best-selling albums ever worldwide.
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"R. Kelly has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for child sex crimes, with 19 to be served simultaneously with a previous 30-year term."

New York Times link:
https://t.co/jwgXZn4jUW

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They're going to discontinue the real Razor Ramon, Scott Hall, from life support shortly. Like Jake "The Snake" Roberts, he was one of pro wrestling's most notorious flameouts who at the same time seemed indestructible. As far as I'm aware, his imminent passing is not due to his days of b...

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Elvis (2022) At some point, a cultural icon needs to be successfully re-introduced to a new generation. Whether it's successful is the difference between, say, The Shadow and Batman, or Sessue Hayakawa and Bruce Lee. Sure, not all icons are the same -- Elvis Presley remains the best-selling solo mu...

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Burt Bacharach, one of pop's greatest songwriters, dies aged 94 His most popular songs included: Magic Moments - Perry Como I Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin What Do You Get When You Fall In Love - Dionne Warwick The Look of Love - Dionne Warwick Close To You - The Carpenters Alfie - Dionne W...

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The Bee Gees’ showings have been awful, but this year they were #11, probably their best showing ever. They might have some momentum building. Beach House was the first act to hit 20 points this time around. They’re the ones that made me post that there wouldn’t need to be any funny second ballot. I...

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Henrik wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 2:24 pm
Thanks Live in Phoenix for your excellent work on this project!

None of my nominations made it, but I love that we have our own hall of fame and the artists we have inducted over the years. I’m very glad that we have a greater participation again.

You're welcome, Henrik!

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Top Performer results 1 (tie). Spiritualized – 28 points 1 (tie). Vampire Weekend – 28 3 (tie). Paul McCartney/Wings – 26 3 (tie). John Williams – 26 5. Beach House – 24 6 (tie). Billy Bragg – 22 6 (tie). Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) – 22 6 (tie). Lana Del Rey – 22 9. George Michael – 21 10. ...

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https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9bL5YzUZIgc/hqdefault.jpg John Williams Genres: Film Score, Cinematic Classical, Film Soundtrack, Orchestral, Soundtrack, Modern Classical "You ensured that Star Wars would endure forever. And then, you did it again with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Steve [Steven Spielberg] ...

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https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.tulux9SCHEDWqZvA_sBx7QHaLB?w=198&h=295&c=7&r=0&o=5&pid=1.7 Paul McCartney/Wings Genres: Pop Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Art Pop, Pop, Western Classical Music, Rock & Roll "[In] retrospect, [Paul] McCartney's albums make for the most fascinatin...

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They seem to have quite a backlog.
Willie will probably get in as a way to honor him while he's still alive (he'll be 90 soon), and because, like Dolly, he's cooler than a fair amount of rock acts, despite the issue of his credentials.

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Ooo, last minute surprise! Thanks everyone for voting. The voting is now CLOSED. Turnout was high, and we have 4 performers to induct. Numerous acts ended up hitting 20+ points, more than I can even induct.

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Nearing the last hours for this. (By the way, once the deadline has passed, allow for a handful of days to get my presentation together.)

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The article I saw says he died from "a short illness." I guess it doesn't matter what it was. (I still don't know what happened to Mark Lanegan.) Music labels fail Television more than most acts. I wouldn't call them punk. Post-punk? (But in 1977?) Regardless, they were among the great lat...

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Labyrinth (1986) "For the path you will take will lead to certain destruction..." I first saw Labyrinth somewhere around my birthday as an 8-year-old kid. I've come across it again every once in a while, including last week. At least as a kid's movie, it feels like part of the movie panth...

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) Whatever you think of him, “Weird Al” has had one of the most unique careers in music history. His shtick would not seem like the stuff of a long career, but he has always managed to survive another day. 30 years after he started, he landed his first top ten sing...

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At this point, there won't be a second ballot to induct a performer, because one act has cleared 20 points.

Now, it's just a matter of whether we induct 1 performer, or 2-4.

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This is also to boost numerous performers, so they can stay in the conversation.

Performers:
1. Gang of Four
2. Swans
3. Tool
4. John Williams
5. Tori Amos
6. Whitney Houston
7. CSN(Y)
8. Adele
9. Soundgarden
10. Bee Gees

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I've heard the three CSNY albums over the years and, frankly, wasn't greatly impressed. But I can put them on my list based on their old So Far compilation, which includes CSN numbers.

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New York Dolls - Trash

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Rolling Stone
David Crosby: 20 Essential Songs by the Folk-Rock Legend

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I think CSNY's last concert was an acoustic set at the 27th Bridge School Benefit on October 27, 2013. A year later, Crosby called Daryl Hannah "a purely poisonous predator," which severely pissed off her boyfriend -- and later, husband -- Neil Young. Graham Nash would also become estrange...

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Always outspoken, sometimes to a fault. Here's a pretty recent L.A. Times article where Crosby said he felt he was releasing better records in 2021 than Neil Young currently was. I haven't heard them, but it's not the most outrageous claim -- believe it or not, Crosby bucked his usual glacial pace a...

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David Crosby, Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash Co-Founder, Dies at 81 By Chris Morris Singer-songwriter-guitarist David Crosby, a founding member of two popular and enormously influential ’60s rock units, the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), has died. ...

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Lisa Marie Presley, Daughter of Elvis and Priscilla, Dead at 54: 'The Most Strong and Loving Woman' Priscilla Presley confirmed her daughter's death on Thursday evening "... A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Fire Department confirmed to PEOPLE that the unit was dispatched to the addres...

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This was listed among Guitar World magazine's 100 greatest solos

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Jeff Beck, virtuoso rock guitarist, dies at 78 Jeff Beck, the virtuoso guitarist who rose to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the Yardbirds before embarking on an acclaimed and prolific solo career, died Jan. 10. He was 78. A statement on his website said that Mr. Beck died “after suddenly co...

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Henry wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:37 pm
If any of these is already in the Hall of Acclaim, the next on list include:

11) James Taylor (34)
12) Jackson Brown (35)
13) Jethro Tull (39)
14) Grateful Dead (40)

Actually, one of your backups, the Grateful Dead, has in fact made it in, for the Class of 2018

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