rock/pop
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Jonathan Richman, doing himself. This is where we get to the more esoteric part of my driving playlist. God bless one of our national musical treasures, Jonathan Richman. Perpetually, the standard bearer for Velvet Underground-worship and sometimes overly-earnest naive wisdom, no one could quite touch the noggin, the heart, and sometimes the funny bone, quite…
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Marc riding a tiger. As I start touring further down the driving playlist road, I have to encounter, and review some songs based on the Bo Diddley Beat. Something about this beat, as heard here, makes it so it can be molded to make just about any song sound intrinsically propulsive. Without a doubt one…
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Nils in the early ’70s Now that we’ve got some forward momentum let’s sustain it. Eh, fuck it, I was going to hold off on highlighting a Nils Lofgren song until later but I might as well do it now when Neil’s sound is still fresh in your memory. Chicago’s own, though mostly raised in…
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Neil Young – 1970 Now here’s a tough decision! There a few artists out there that embody a musical style based on creating awesome hard, driving songs and magnificent soft, contemplative songs. I may have chosen the following two to review but they’re not exactly my favorites, they’re just a snapshot in thought. Well, if…
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – 1970 Continuing on a theme for a bit, if you don’t mind indulging me for that while. Whenever you’re driving somewhere its cool to have a very propulsive, energetic song going forward but heading home I kinda like a bit of a softie song…something a bit more contemplative (heck the trip…
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the Kinks – 1969 Can you believe that August is already here? That the end of summer is nigh around the corner? Man, time is flying by this year. Its times like these when my brain starts a ramblin’ and gets ideas of heading out and traveling somewhere in the great US of A before…
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