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Winamp Friday: Gene Himself
With the recent passing of Gene Hackman, I’d like to revisit this Winamp Wednesday entry from a previous version of the WBL. Here’s some thoughts on… Robyn Hitchcock, “Don’t Talk to Me About Gene Hackman” Hidden away at the end of the 1999 LP Jewels for Sophia, “Don’t Talk to Me About Gene Hackman” is peak Robyn Hitchcock.…
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Winamp Wednesday: Always Mandy
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing feature spotlighting Napster favorites from the wild-west days of the early internet. This summer we’re covering the best of 1999: the B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Mandy Moore, “Candy” Not to be a full contrarian here, but the answer to Britney Vs. Christina was always Mandy. All…
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Winamp Wednesday: I Get Up Sometimes
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing feature spotlighting Napster favorites from the wild-west days of the early internet. This autumn we’re covering the best of 1999: the B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Vertical Horizon, “We Are” “There’s no way you know this band”, he said, but I had been listening to their new…
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Winamp Wednesday: My Guns and My Vanity
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing feature spotlighting Napster favorites from the wild-west days of the early internet. This summer we’re covering the best of 1999: the B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Luscious Jackson, “Ladyfingers” Underneath the armor is another good girl. How much have we forgotten? How much do we discard in…
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Winamp Wednesday: A Well-Timed Smile
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing celebration of all the songs I loaded into that music player in the wild-west days of the MP3. B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Jawbreaker, “Save Your Generation (Live)” I was originally going to call this website “Dear You”, but I wanted something more inscrutable that Pitchfork…
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Ranking the Movie Posters of July 1999!
We are deep in what might have been the greatest summer in the history of moviegoing. The past two months have given us iconic posters and terrible one-sheets for otherwise great films (and vice versa). Past the Fourth of July holiday we got past the gigantic event films and into the genre pictures, and with…
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Winamp Wednesday: Make Me a Promise
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing series about songs I fed into the music player Winamp in the wild-west days of the MP3. B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Marvelous 3, “Freak of the Week” All hail Butch Walker, who could make the metalheads cry. Let’s go back in time about twenty-five years…
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Ranking the Movie Posters of June 1999!
I’m a little bit late to this one–Happy July 4th to our American friends–so let’s jump right in! June was an insane month at the box office, and many of these movies went on to become bona-fide classics. Two of these movies made over $100 Million, and I had nearly entirely forgotten either of them…
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Looking to the Stars for Answers: Astro Lounge at 25
Smash Mouth were like The Doors if Jim Morrison had any sense of whimsy. “Walking on the Sun” appeared out of nowhere in 1997 with Ray Manzarek organ riffs and a cynical look back at Woodstock-bound Hippies and their No Nukes descendants. That song smacked out of radios the world over for the entire year,…
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Ranking the Movie Posters of April 1999!
1999 was the best year ever to go to the movies; there’s a whole excellent book about it and journalistic backup from everyone from NPR to Entertainment Weekly. Looking at any given weekend box-office chart yields both a deep bench of certifiable all-timers and also complete befuddlement. Hey, did you know that Inspector Gadget made…
