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Readers’ Rock List: Self-Titled AlbumsPhoto: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Last week, to celebrate all those eponymous LPs out there, we asked the Rock Daily readers to tell us their favorite Self-Titled Album. We counted the votes and, to nobody’s surprise, The Beatles, or the White Album as it’s lovingly referred to, stormed to the top spot, passing a pair of punk albums along the way. To see where Led Zeppelin, Van Halen and the blue Weezer landed, check out the full list below: 1. The Beatles 2. The Clash 3. The Ramones 4. Weezer 5. Led Zeppelin 6. The Doors 7. The Velvet Underground 8. Black Sabbath 9. Van Halen 10. Metallica 11. Rage Against the Machine 12. The Band 13. Sublime 14. The B-52’s 15. Franz Ferdinand
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Published: 2009-03-09
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock Lists
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Hype Monitor: Amazing Baby (With “Bayonets” Download), France Has the Bomb and P.O.S.The Band: Amazing Baby The Buzz: Witness the reinvention of glam rock: sighed vocals, sizzling riffs and sky-high choruses, all delivered with the perfect amount of prissiness. Listen If: You’ve seen Velvet Goldmine more than twice, or always wished Marc Bolan sang for Roxy Music. Key Track: “Bayonets,” where disco strings get tangled up in rock guitars to sublime results. Download it for free right here: • “Bayonets” [right click and select “save as”] The Band: France Has the Bomb The Buzz: The new sound of Minneapolis! Rocketing tempos, right-angle guitars and ragged-throated vocals. Listen If: What matters to you is the melody, not the fidelity. Key Track: “Grim Trigger,” which strolls along on a dapper bassline and contains all the fine pout of early ’90s emo — the good kind. The Artist: P.O.S. The Buzz: The other new sound of Minneapolis! Speed-of-light rhyming runs wild over fantastically dusky production, pulling the classic sound of hip-hop forcefully into the future. Listen If: Your biggest problem with Das EFX and Bone Thugs N Harmony is that they don’t rhyme fast enough. Key Track: Explosive first single “Drumroll,” where P.O.S. narrates the apocalypse over a beat that sounds like 400 horses having seizures.
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Published: 2009-02-19
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Breaking
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Alison Krauss, Tragically Hip: hot sounds in a cool settingEntertainmentSublime music in a sublime setting. What more could you ask? The Concerts at Marymoor boast one of the finest summertime concert sites...
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Published: 2007-07-06
Provider: Seattle Times
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Critic’s Picks: David Fricke’s Favorite Albums That Didn’t Make the RS Top 50 1. Patti Smith Twelve (Columbia) A consummate covers artist from the beginning, Patti Smith emotionally and musically reexamines classic songs by fellow electric poets — including Jimi Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced?” George Harrison’s “Within You Without You” and Kurt Cobain’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” — with sublime, inspirational results. 2. The Len Price 3 Rentacrowd (Wicked Cool) The second album by this British trio — none of the guys are named Len or Price — packs the hooks, twang and pow of Kink Kontroversy and The Who Sings My Generation into a volley of quick, fast and mod — as in truly modern — bullets. The title song is especially sweet, raging revenge against U.K. hype-of-the-month bands who have the looks and hair — just like the LP3 — but none of the power-chord and incandescent-chorus goods you get here. 3. Wooden Shjips Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain) The debut album by the best new psychedelic band in America — it’s from San Francisco, of course — combines and updates the transportive force of the Velvet Underground’s no-blues drone, Can’s unrelenting pulse and the holy garage-rock fire of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators into a compact, wrapped-in- reverb trip of vintage transcendence and forward thrust. 4. Tinariwen Aman Iman (Water Is Life) (World Village) This is an album of true rebel songs by the Rolling Stones of the Sahara desert, an extraordinary band of Tuareg tribesmen from northern Mali whose nomad stories and spidery, electric riffing are plugged into the blues’ original crossroads. 5. Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob (Universal Motown) Their 2005 debut, Employment, had one killer song, “I Predict a Riot,” and big potential. This overlooked follow-up was the riot: street-fighting British pop with smart, sardonic writing and chorales — like the title chant in “Ruby” and the punch line in “I Can Do It Without You” (”
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Published: 2007-12-19
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Comment of the Week: Brandon Flowers Swears He’s a DancerPhoto: Getty One of the stranger stories to come out of the week’s news cycle was the fact that the Killers‘ Brandon Flowers was upset over the general misinterpretation of the lyrics in the chorus to his band’s current his “Human.” While Flowers sings “Are we human, or are we dancer?” (which apparently paraphrases Hunter S. Thompson), people are either mistakenly thinking he’s saying “denser” or that his grammar is incorrect. Reader Geoff had a reasonable defense of Flowers’ complaint: “I don’t see why ‘dancer’ is grammatically incorrect. It just suggests that dancer is another species, like human. I don’t see anyone complaining that he says ‘are we human’ and not ‘are we humans’ — if you interpret dancer as an adjective and not a noun, there is nothing wrong with his grammar.” But it was Rictor who offered up the sharpest insight: I wait tables at the Hard Rock in Vegas and these guys come in all the time. I should ask them if I’m a dancer or a human. They’ll probably say I’m a waiter.” • Brandon Flowers Wound Up Over Misquoting of Killers Lyric Related Stories: • Killers, Kanye, Ludacris Push Up Release Dates By 24 Hours • The Killers Take On Alien Abduction With “Spaceman” • The Killers Mix Sublime, Ridiculous With a Touch of Camp in New York • Gonzo For Beginners: A Hunter S. Thompson Reading Guide
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Published: 2008-11-21
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Single Minded: Emmylou Harris, Martha Wainwright and More Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more. Emmylou Harris, “Hold On” [MySpace] No flashing lights, no pop crossovers, just Emmylou doing what she does best: curling her smoky alto around dry chords and singing of sorrow and longing. Lil Wayne, “A Milli” [MySpace] The gauntlet has been thrown, Axl! After months of rescheduling, re-recording and about 750 different mixtapes named “The Leak” or “The Drought,” the year’s most anticipated hip-hop album is upon us. Meaning for that the next six months, indie rock bloggers are going to have nothing to write about. Martha Wainwright, “Comin Tonight” [MySpace] Is it just us, or does this family kind of remind you of the Tenenbaums? Or the Glass family in those Salinger books? Does the Wainwright’s pet terrier have a record coming out? Did they record it with Van Dyke Parks? This scorcher from sister Martha proves her worthy of her family’s heavy mantle. Flying Lotus, “Roberta Flack ft. Dolly” [MySpace] Now this is more like it: anyone who wishes the new Portishead sounded more like old Portishead should be mailing Flying Lotus $15 before they finish this sentence. Dark beats and druggy vocals — simply sublime. My Morning Jacket, “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream” [MySpace] All good beardos unite: MMJ broker a treaty between Radiohead and the Band on their latest. “I know it sounds confusing, but it makes a lot of sense,” Jim James sings on this one. You’re telling us. [Photo: Getty]
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Published: 2008-06-10
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Single Minded
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"Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy" by MúmIceland's Múm have travelled stylistic light-years since the baby-toy electronica of 2000's Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK, gradually beefing up their sound over the years with decidedly mixed results. Early sublime moments came when Kristín Valtýsdóttir's wispy melodies drifted into the same make-believe space as Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason's ethereal, glockenspiel-augmented electronics—the results were classic experimental pop in the Icelandic tradition. Múm are now technically a duo (Valtýsdóttir left to make albums with her husband, Animal Collective's Avey Tare), and reappear with their fourth full-length, Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy, an album whose many auxiliary contributors allow Tynes and Smárason to inhabit Múm's new identity as a large-ensemble indie-pop band. Rather than forcing their uneven songwriting to the forefront, as on Summer Make Good,
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Published: 2007-10-02
Provider: Artist Direct
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![Picture: Enrique Iglesias's Mole Still Clearly In Love With Him [Short Ends]](http://imagecache03.pixsy.com/04232008/7b/7b3b8b57-acf3-4ef1-98c7-368514a04a5f.jpg)
Enrique Iglesias's Mole Still Clearly In Love With Him [Short Ends] newVideoPlayer("eilunar_defamer.flv", 463, 387,""); · We realize yesterday's clip sucked, so to make it up to you, here's an interview conducted by Enrique Iglesias's mole with its former host-body that verges on the sublime. [holamun2.com] · Looking for a job? Gavin Polone needs an assistant! It's sure to be a challenging yet incredibly rewarding position for someone aspiring to a career in the industry...BWAAAHAHAHAHA! [entertainmentcareers.net] · Smashing Pumpkin's Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin were inducted to the Rockwalk outside the Guitar Center today, where "a hundred or so fans turned up, outnumbered by the media and assorted band hangers-on." Sheesh, even Reuters is hatin' on the 'kins. [Reuters] · Universal is suing Lionsgate for stinking up Midnight Run's legacy by putting one of its characters in a Larry the Cable Guy movie. [THR Esq.] · Noted parrot fetishist Megan Fox tops FHM's poll of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2008, while various Jessicas round out the top five. [hmonline.com]
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Published: 2008-04-24
Provider: Defamer
Keywords: Clips, Short Ends
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