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Throw Beck Thursday: That Time My Father Left
Life continued in the Chicago suburbs. My baseball skills improved, and I started holding my own in fights. I made a best buddy. We’d play Evel Knievel and Hot Wheels and listen to his Monkees records every day after school. He had a Labrador named Sunshine, named for his only 45: John Denver’s “Sunshine on My…
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On Diffuser: Where Have You Been – 15 Legendary ‘Lost’ Alternative Albums
Lost albums, the forbidden fruit of record collecting.
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Deep Cuts: Heroin Songs
Heroin is some creepy shit.
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230. Top-Forty Cast Off From a Record Stand
Only a nobody walks in L.A., so I started walking.
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On Diffuser: Cover Stories: Red Hot Chili Peppers, ‘Blood Sugar Sex Magik’
This was the album that made RHCP huge, but is it also responsible for the tattoo craze?
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On Diffuser: 24 Years Ago: Pearl Jam Take Flannel to the Masses With Their Debut, ‘Ten’
It was big, shiny, and polished. Ten was the album we were supposed to hate.
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Throw Beck Thursday: Just For One Day
Life continued in the Chicago suburbs. My baseball skills improved, and I started holding my own in fights. I made a best buddy. We’d play Evel Knievel and Hot Wheels and listen to his Monkees records every day after school. He had a Labrador named Sunshine, named for his only 45: John Denver’s “Sunshine on My…
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Deep Cuts: Twist, Twist, Twist
I’m not sure we grasp just how big the friggin’ Twist was.
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On Diffuser: 21 Years Ago: Jeff Buckley Releases His Only Album, the Transcendent ‘Grace’
Seriously, how great is this album?
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229. Take Me By My Little Hand and Go Like This
Near MGM’s building stood a ’50s-themed diner named Ed Debevic’s. The stainless steel, red vinyl, and neon were draws, but the real feature was the staff. The waiters and waitresses at Ed’s were actors playing the roles of waiters and waitresses. They took corny fifties sounding names like “Scooter,” tried to stick to mid-century slang,…
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