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Cynical Canadian bibliophile/writer guy into music, sports (lifelong Caps/Jays fan), contemporary literature and poetry, foreign film and used bookstores and booksales. Not much else.
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Four-Song Peel Session of The Smiths from December 2, 1986. Includes "Half a Person" and "Sweet and Tender Hooligan". Length: 12:17. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1C...

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Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker died at age 64 in 2023. Kevin Shields described his style as “this effortless playing producing a monstrous sound". Killing Joke live on German TV in 1985. Length: 40:37. #PostPunk m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y34f...

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Tom Verlaine, singer-songwriter, guitarist and frontman for NYC band Television, was born in 1949. Verlaine performing live on Spanish show La Edad de Oro in September 1984. Length: 1:03:29. m.youtube.com/watch?v=WLiy...

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Bay Area punk rock band Dead Kennedys performing live in concert in June 1984. Length: 24:50. #PunkRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=jgL5...

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D.C. hardcore band Bad Brains performing "Fearless Vampire Killers" live in concert in the 1980s. Song from the band's classic 1982 self-titled debut album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sQn8...

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The Clash performing "Charlie Don't Surf" live in Tokyo in January 1982. Mick Jones shines on guitar. Song from 1980's Sandinista! album. #PunkRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=DyYN...

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Scottish new wave band Simple Minds perform the funk riff-driven "Sweat in Bullet" live on German show Rockpalast in June 1982. The song reached #52 on the UK chart. Second single from the Steve Hillage-produced Sons and Fascination album. #NewWave m.youtube.com/watch?v=RBIP...

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British new wave band The Photos performing "Maxine" live on Old Grey Whistle Test in 1980. Song from the group's self-titled debut LP. #NewWave m.youtube.com/watch?v=ocxh...

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Official video for 1980 song "A Forest" by The Cure. It was the band's first UK Top 40 hit, reaching #31. It is the song played most live by the band, exceeding over a thousand times. From the album Seventeen Seconds. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xik-...

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Australian rock band Midnight Oil performing "Stand in Line" live in concert in 1982. The furious winding groove can be found on 1979 album Head Injuries. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKF...

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Official video for 1983 song "Eat Y'self Fitter" by The Fall. From the album Perverted by Language. "An Easy Rider coot/Grabbed the edge of my coat/Said: 'You're too smart for here'/I said: 'I'll see the manager'" #FallFriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=-fpV...

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The Fall performing "I'm Frank" live on The Late Show in 1990. Written by guitarist Craig Scanlon. From the album Extricate. #FallFriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=qd38...

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Poster for The Fall live in concert with the Surface Mutants in Sheffield in September 1980. #FallFriday

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Walter Scott, founding member and vocalist for Los Angeles R&B group The Whispers, has died at 81. Their song “And the Beat Goes On” hit #1 on the R&B charts in 1979, and was later sampled by artists such as Monie Love and Will Smith. #RIPWalterScott m.youtube.com/watch?v=pEmX...

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Three-Song Peel Session of English electronic music duo Propellerheads from October 20, 1996. Length: 21:09. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fvx_...

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Teenage Fanclub covering The Byrds' "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" live on UK show The White Room in 1995. m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tcl...

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NYC free jazz quartet Prima Materia, with former John Coltrane drummer Rashied Ali, performing live in Germany in March 1995. Length: 43:28. #FreeJazz m.youtube.com/watch?v=uel0...

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Paul Weller performing "The Loved" live in a solo acoustic performance. B-Side on 1994 single "Hung Up". Can be found on the addendum release More Wood (Little Splinters). m.youtube.com/watch?v=ifCH...

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The Cramps performing "Nest of the Cuckoo Bird" live in concert circa 1994. Song from the 1994 album Flamejob. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe_A...

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Apart from all his soundtrack work, don’t sleep on the fact the late Lalo Schifrin also put out a couple jazz albums on CTI Records in the 1970s. 1976 LP Black Widow by Lalo Schifrin. Length; 38:08. #RIPLaloSchifrin m.youtube.com/watch?v=r3h2...

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Lalo Schifrin, the Argentine composer, pianist and conductor, has died at 93. Best known for the Mission: Impossible theme, his Latin and jazz stylings also graced soundtracks for films such as BULLITT and DIRTY HARRY. Schifrin live in 1994. #RIPLaloSchifrin m.youtube.com/watch?v=jhWI...

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Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro died this past week at 98. His most-recognized piece is Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con Sfera) which began as a piece at Expo 67 and was later commissioned to display at the UN Headquarters and the Vatican Museums etc #RIPArnaldoPomodoro

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Sorry to hear of the passing of Italian actress Lea Massari at 91. An earthy, sensual presence who illuminated such excellent films as Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’AVVENTURA (as the friend who disappears) and Louis Malle’s MURMUR OF THE HEART (as the mother). #RIPLeaMassari

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1977 roots reggae tune "Cool Down Youthman" by Jah Stitch. From his Blood & Fire anthology Original Ragamuffin (1975-77). #RootsReggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1kE...

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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds perform "Papa Won't Leave You Henry" live in a 1992 Amsterdam concert. Song from 1992 album Henry's Dream. m.youtube.com/watch?v=bTir...

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Nirvana performing "Sliver" live at the 1992 Reading Festival. Buoyed by a great Krist Novoselic bassline. On the studio version, drums were played by Mudhoney's Dan Peters. The 1990 single can be found on 1992 rarities compilation Incesticide. m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DSI...

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Four-Song Peel Session of English indie shoegaze band Moose from April 16, 1991. Includes a cover of Roxy Music's "In Every Dream Home a Heartache". Length: 17:57. #Shoegaze m.youtube.com/watch?v=HO9V...

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James Brown embraces his Barry White on the 1981 song "Love 80's". But dig that unexpected "Yakety Sax" break in the middle. From the album Nonstop! m.youtube.com/watch?v=evXM...

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Dexter Romweber died at age 57 in 2024. He led North Carolina band Flat Duo Jets whose fusion of rockabilly w/ spartan garage sounds inspired acts such as White Stripes, Flat Duo Jets on Letterman in 1990. m.youtube.com/watch?v=B9uf...

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1997 song "Hotel Specific" by Mick Harvey. Cover of the Serge Gainsbourg song "L'Hôtel Particulier". Closing cut from the former Bad Seed/Birthday Party member's second collection of Gainsbourg covers, Pink Elephants. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dasT...

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The late Jerry Lee Lewis surrounded by Bryan Ferry, Dave Mason, Ronnie Wood and Mick Fleetwood.

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1973 song “I'm a Cadillac / El Camino Dolo Roso” by Mott the Hoople. Written by Mick Ralphs. From the stellar Mott album. Rumour has it Ralphs left Mott because he felt he was writing songs out of Ian Hunter’s vocal range. Thus Bad Company was born. #RIPMickRalphs m.youtube.com/watch?v=ynMI...

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Sad to hear Mick Ralphs, lead guitarist and founding member of bands Mott the Hopple and Bad Company, has died at 81. Mott’s 1972 recording of the David Bowie song “All the Young Dudes”. #RIPMickRalphs m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iqi...

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2024 medley consisting of Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman” and Charlie Haden’s “Song for Che” by Norwegian 84 year old jazz double bassist Arlid Andersen. From the ECM album Landloper. #JazzMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTS...

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1991 song “Finistère” by English alternative folk rock outfit The Lilac Time. Written and produced by lead Stephen “Tin Tin” Duffy, once a founding member and lead vocalist of Duran Duran before leaving in 1979. From the album Astronauts. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qYuM...

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2024 piece “Aarhus” by Danish guitarist Jakob Bro. Players include Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz and Andrew Cyrillic. From the ECM album Taking Turns. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QTej...

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1965 version of the Rev. Gary Davis song “Cocaine” by influential British folk guitarist Davy Graham. From his second album Folk, Blues and Beyond. m.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Ug...

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Echo & the Bunnymen performing “Baby Rain” live in Hamburg, Germany in 1999. Song from the album What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? Which was re-released in a 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition last year. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQW9...

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