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• 2010 Summer movie preview

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  Summer may not officially begin until the end of June, but in Hollywood it starts in early May. This year it’s May 7, to be exact, when Iron Man 2 hits theaters and could well top the opening weekend record set by The Dark Knight a couple of years ago. [...]
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• Song of the Day #646: ‘Double Dutch Bus’ – Frankie Smith

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  Four of the five songs I’m featuring this week are by black artists, which I find interesting considering all the talk in recent years about how white America has adopted black musical culture. That’s certainly true today, but maybe it’s not such a new phenomenon. Maybe it’s always been true. [...]
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• Song of the Day #645: ‘White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)’ – Grandmaster Melle Mel

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  Last Fall, I spent a month counting down my favorite songs from the 80s, highlighting a batch of tunes that were ubiquitous on MTV and helped shape my creative awareness during my formative second decade. But recently I realized that I left out a group of songs from early in [...]
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• Song of the Day #644: ‘Hazel’ – Bob Dylan

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  Planet Waves is the first album I’ve played of the five I bought in preparation for these Dylan Weekends and I hope its quality is indicative of what I can expect of the rest. It’s fun to hear “new” music from an artist I’ve been listening to for more than [...]
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• Song of the Day #643: ‘Forever Young’ – Bob Dylan

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  When I started this Dylan Weekend series and decided to dedicate posts to each of Bob Dylan’s albums chronologically, I knew I was going in somewhat ill-prepared. I own more albums by Dylan than by any other single artist or band in my collection (Elvis Costello is a close second) [...]
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• Song of the Day #642: ‘These Are Days’ – 10,000 Maniacs

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  As this turned into an unofficial theme week about expectations, second impressions and the like, I figured I’d close with an example of a second impression album. That’s a case where you’re already a fan of an artist but you don’t immediately warm to a new release at first, only [...]
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• Song of the Day #641: ‘Bad Romance’ – Lady GaGa

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  Lady Gaga could potentially be a second impression artist for me, because the first impression has not been a very good one. More likely she’ll remain one of those acts, like Lil Wayne, that critics and fans alike fawn over while I scratch my head, not getting it. Let me [...]
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• Song of the Day #640: ‘Please Don’t Leave Me’ – Pink

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  Yesterday’s post on Marah touched on a favorite topic of mine: the impact of expectations. But it was also a good illustration of another phenomenon I’ve encountered over my years of music listening: the second impression. Sometimes an album just doesn’t hit me during my first listen, or even my [...]
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• Song of the Day #639: ‘Barstool Boys’ – Marah

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  Wholehearted recommendations are a funny thing. Yesterday I wrote about the anonymous man who steered me toward track three of a Tom Petty album. Today I’ll talk about a recommendation by a person I’ve never met but whose opinion I value greatly. Nick Hornby, author of the best book about [...]
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• Song of the Day #638: ‘Flirting with Time’ – Tom Petty

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  I should do a Tom Petty theme week one of these days. He’s written some incredible music during a career that’s spanned four decades, making him more than worthy of the spotlight. But today I’m focusing on a Petty song from his most recent album in order to tell a [...]
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