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• Song of the Day #657: ‘Please Mrs Henry’ – Bob Dylan

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  I’m always amazed by the release schedule of Bob Dylan’s early career. As somebody who is used to waiting three or four years between my favorite artists’ albums, I can’t even fathom what it must have been like to have a new Dylan release available every six months or so. [...]
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• Song of the Day #656: ‘Every Ghetto Every City’ – Lauryn Hill

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  Every once in awhile, my wife (an English teacher) will seek my help in compiling a lesson plan. It’s usually a fun exercise for a couple of reasons: one, I don’t have to actually teach the lesson or grade any of the resulting work; and two, her requests usually revolve [...]
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• Song of the Day #655: ‘Desperation’ – Miranda Lambert

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  Today’s song comes courtesy of a request by my lovely wife. I don’t get a lot of requests here on Meet Me In Montauk but I take seriously the ones I do get. A blogger unresponsive to his audience is no kind of blogger at all. For those of you [...]
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• Song of the Day #654: ‘If I Were a Boy’ – Beyoncé

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  Once in awhile (for purely artistic reasons) I’ll watch a Beyoncé video or two on YouTube. ‘Single Ladies‘ is definitely a favorite, and ‘Crazy in Love‘ has yet to disappoint. I’ve made the distinction before between live artists and album artists, citing Rihanna as a fine example of the latter. [...]
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• Song of the Day #653: ‘So Cruel’ – U2

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  One of these days I might get around to a theme week on U2. I feel about U2 the way I feel about Bruce Springsteen… appreciative of their status as legends, and a big fan of much of their work, but not a big enough fan to number them among [...]
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• Song of the Day #652: ‘Landed (a cappella version)’ – The Yale Spizzwinks(?)

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  One of the things I love about Ben Folds is how fully he embraces new ideas in his music. While Ben Folds Five was still together, he put out his first solo album under the moniker Fear of Pop. The album, Volume One, relied heavily on samples, electronica, spoken word [...]
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• Song of the Day #651: ‘You’re a Big Girl Now’ – Bob Dylan

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  Blood on the Tracks is, obviously, the fifth member of my Dylan Six — the six Dylan albums I consider his true untouchable masterpieces. (On a side note, every time I write Dylan Six I’m reminded of the Dylan Four in Battlestar Galactica… the four crew members who discovered they [...]
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• Song of the Day #650: ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ – Bob Dylan

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  In 1975, nine years had passed since the release of Bob Dylan’s last undisputed masterpiece, Blonde on Blonde. During those nine years he had released seven studio albums, two greatest hits collections and a live album. He had matched his pre-1966 output but it would be hard to argue that [...]
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• Song of the Day #649: ‘Somebody’s Watching Me’ – Rockwell

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  Here’s a song that came out a couple of years later than the rest of this week’s selections, in 1984. But I still associate it more with my elementary school days than with the 80s songs I counted down last year. I remember the video as much as the song [...]
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• Song of the Day #648: ‘Pac-Man Fever’ – Buckner & Garcia

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  1982′s ‘Pac-Man Fever’ is an important touchstone for me because, at 10 years old, I was a chronic sufferer of the ailment described by the song. My friends and I used to play Pac-Man at the Sav-a-Step convenience store a mile or so from our school, walking there as soon [...]
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