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• Song of the Day #1,541: ‘Working On a Dream’ – Bruce Springsteen

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  Well, going from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen isn’t exactly the sort of wild surprise I was calling for in yesterday’s post, but it will do. ‘Working On a Dream’ is the title track from Springsteen’s 2009 album, one of three great records The Boss has released over the past [...]
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• Finally, some movies I actually want to see!

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  The year in movies has thus far been rather disappointing. Apart from a trio of solid comic book movies (The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises) and Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, I hadn’t had a really memorable experience at the movies through the first nine months of [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,540: ‘Blowin’ in the Wind (Witmark Demo)’ – Bob Dylan

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  One of the downsides of a truly random selection — such as that of my Random Weekend Songs of the Day — is that you wind up with clusters. I haven’t checked the numbers, but it seems like tracks from Dylan’s Bootleg Series have turned up here on a pretty [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,539: ‘Lovable’ – Elvis Costello

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  I’ve been simultaneously dreading and eagerly anticipating the chance to discuss Elvis Costello as part of the genome project. Costello is basically a genome all to himself. It’s hard to think of a genre he hasn’t at least dabbled in, a musical inspiration he hasn’t explored on record. Chamber music [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,538: ‘My Love Has Gone’ – Josh Rouse

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  Josh Rouse is a great example of a genome artist. He didn’t open my eyes to something new or expand my musical horizons. He just landed right in the sweet spot of my established preferences. He’s a little bit ‘Pure Pop,’ a little bit ‘Folk Rock Derivative,’ with a dash [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,537: ‘Not a Second Time’ – The Beatles

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  Yesterday I looked at how Bob Dylan shaped my musical tastes for decades. Today I’m paying tribute to the other important formative band of my adolescence — The Beatles. I got into The Beatles a year or two after I discovered Dylan, when I was around 17. I spent a [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,536: ‘One Too Many Mornings’ – Bob Dylan

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  Arriving at an artist like Bob Dylan during this musical genome project, I find the script has flipped. It suddenly doesn’t make much sense to talk about my appreciation for Dylan’s music in terms of how he fits into my five categories. Rather, it becomes pretty clear that Bob Dylan’s [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,535: ‘Valentine’ – Fiona Apple

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  I’m approaching all of the artists in this musical genome series from the perspective of the categories I’ve defined, so in those terms it’s pretty clear that I’m a huge Fiona Apple fan because she’s a) a ‘Piano (Wo)man’ and b) ‘Melancholy.’ But if you were to ask me why [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,534: ‘Just Fine’ – Mary J. Blige

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  Here’s a song from one of the five or six albums in my CD collection that belong exclusively to my wife. I have never heard this song or this album before, and I listened to only about half of it just now before posting it. R&B is definitely not in [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,533: ‘Seven Days’ – Bob Dylan

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  I had just listened to several songs from Tempest, Bob Dylan’s newest album (review to come), when I clicked the ‘shuffle’ button to choose my next Random Weekend selection. And there was Bob again, 36 years earlier, performing a song that didn’t make it onto any of his 35 studio [...]
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