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		<title>Sober</title>
		<link>http://listeningaround.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/sober/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Pink]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Kenny writing) The reason Pink has for years seemed like a person, unlike Brittany or Amy W., is because she wants to go to rehab.  Not from some prissy moralistic point of view, but from the point of view that the party does end and you have to face yourself in the mirror when it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=listeningaround.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2092049&amp;post=173&amp;subd=listeningaround&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glasvegas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Glasvegas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(David writing) Months after a beloved flopped major-label release, the question about why it flopped is rarely as interesting as why you liked it in the first place. And of course Glasvegas is neither an unequivocal flop nor necessarily a flop at all. Maybe it will be one of those slow-burners, if Columbia decides they&#8217;re worth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=listeningaround.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2092049&amp;post=171&amp;subd=listeningaround&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music to listen to while lying perfectly still (um, try not to move so much, OK?)</title>
		<link>http://listeningaround.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/music-to-listen-to-while-lying-perfectly-still-um-try-not-to-move-so-much-ok/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To the right additional musical accompaniment -- anybody still use the term "trip-hop"? -- the MRI's whizzes and blams, at at least three different synth-like tones and two different tempos, might actually be something to relieve boredom on their own.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=listeningaround.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2092049&amp;post=167&amp;subd=listeningaround&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ooh Baby Baby: Marianne Faithfull&#8217;s new album</title>
		<link>http://listeningaround.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/ooh-baby-baby-marianne-faithfulls-new-album/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Marianne Faithfull]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was fairly audacious in 1987 for Marianne Faithfull and producer Hal Willner to put together blues and rock old and new with items from the Great American Songbook (at least one of which, thanks to Billie Holiday, also counted as an old blues) on Strange Weather.
But before I even get to what works great on Easy Come Easy Go, let me talk about the sound. Not so much the work of the four arrangers/conductors (best: Steven Bernstein) and how distinctive nearly every track is while allowing for flow in the Great Album Tradition, but the sound of the singer. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=listeningaround.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2092049&amp;post=153&amp;subd=listeningaround&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wussy (Self-Titled New Album)</title>
		<link>http://listeningaround.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/wussy-self-titled-new-album/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wussy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Kenny writing) Wussy, the self-titled new album by what is my favorite currently active band in the world, is certainly their third best of three albums.   The worst album by a great band in its prime is a fine thing, and there are enough good songs and unique sounds on this one that it remains highly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=listeningaround.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2092049&amp;post=148&amp;subd=listeningaround&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Troubadour</title>
		<link>http://listeningaround.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/troubadour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[K'naan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://listeningaround.wordpress.com/?p=130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Kenny writing) The cliche goes that since artists have five or ten years to develop the songs on their debut, but only a year or two, mostly spent on the road, to develop their follow-up, the debut is generally the better album.  Of course, we can all come up with any number of counterexamples.  But even for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=listeningaround.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2092049&amp;post=130&amp;subd=listeningaround&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working On A Dream versus Magic</title>
		<link>http://listeningaround.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/working-on-a-dream-versus-magic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bruce Springsteen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://listeningaround.wordpress.com/?p=124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Kenny writing) Because I like Magic pretty much better then anyone else (except perhaps David, who likes it plenty too), I thought I would lay out my mixed feelings about the new Springsteen album in terms of what I value in Bruce&#8217;s late work.  Song for song, theme for theme, studio sound for studio sound, there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=listeningaround.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2092049&amp;post=124&amp;subd=listeningaround&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Lily Allen: Chick-flick songs for people who don&#8217;t like chick flicks</title>
		<link>http://listeningaround.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/its-lily-allen-chick-flick-songs-for-people-who-dont-like-chick-flicks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lily Allen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mapping the web of a 20-something woman's self-definition as it relates to her sexuality and her determination to not get fucked over, including by herself, only a few come to mind -- Joni Mitchell, Liz Phair, PJ Harvey, Courtney Love, Sleater-Kinney, Missy Elliott, who else ya got? And I'll start right off saying that of those, Allen's easily got the easiest and richest sense of humor, which goes along with her standing her ground without needing rage, bravado or even much irony. She couldn't reminisce about some stud she fucked on a Greek island with a straight face, and in general seems to find the jet-setting privileges of popdom disorienting and largely unnecessary (though word is she does love the clothing part of it).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=listeningaround.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2092049&amp;post=110&amp;subd=listeningaround&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vivian Girls</title>
		<link>http://listeningaround.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/vivian-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scrawl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vivian Girls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Kenny writing) Fuzzy sound and lack of rhythmic imagination are generally signs of amateurism and youth, and while they can be infectuous live in the right setting, they are generally dead ends for recording artists.  There are exceptions.  Scrawl counts as my favorite band that managed to maintain such an apparently amateur sound over a decade [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=listeningaround.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2092049&amp;post=106&amp;subd=listeningaround&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aesthetes Versus Fans</title>
		<link>http://listeningaround.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/aesthetes-versus-fans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How we listen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Kenny writing) One tension that crops up periodically between David and me is that David listens to music as an aesthete, whereas I listen to music as a fan.  We have discussed this off-blog, but it&#8217;s time to take it on line.  The main comment David has made about this on this site &#8211; in different terms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=listeningaround.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2092049&amp;post=96&amp;subd=listeningaround&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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