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Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley, and Gerard (Gerry) Love are Teenage Fanclub, which may be the most underrated band of all time (even more so than Big Star, a band to which they are inevitably compared). Prophesied by critics as the Next Big Thing in 1991 (and we all know what became the Big Thing that [...]
There comes a point in the life of the Music Junkie where nothing sounds “good”. You probably will understand this. I have carefully (or perhaps, chaotically) cultivated not only the breadth, but the depth, of my music knowledge. Punk rock, 80s hardcore punk, punk pop, jangle pop, synth pop, Brit pop, power pop, indie rock/pop/hip-hop, [...]
I have no idea how many times I listened to [the Smiths’] Meat is Murder that night in bed, but it was a lot. Every song was, or would soon be, about my life and Alison’s place in it. —Meat Is Murder by Joe Pernice, Continuum, 33 1/3 book series Contemplating Suicide or a Graduate [...]
