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Single Life: Special Beyonce Edition: Single Ladies and If I Were a Boy
For her upcoming third solo album, the lovely Beyonce Knowles has decided to grace us with two singles at once. “If I Were a Boy” and “Single Ladies” are the two opening tracks from her new, as yet untitled album, which is scheduled to hit stores in mid-November. The videos premiere later today, but until then, I’m sure you’re wondering what the songs sound like (if you haven’t heard them already). You can check them […]
FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #7: Gary Gilmore Girls
SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESSÂ “Don’t Worry” b/w “Wheels A’ Spinning” (Sub Pop Records SP77, October 1990)
“Hey Loser. Wanna find some action? Tired of being left out? Here at SUB POP we’ve just started a special club for lonely record collectors like yourself: THE SUB POP SINGLES CLUB. Every month we’ll send you a limited edition 45. All you have to do is SEND US YOUR MONEY. $35.00 for a full year, $20.00 for 6 months. Your subscription begins the month we receive your $$$.”
Yes, I was a Sub Pop loser. I mean, c’mon…it was inevitable, right? Make an offer like that to a vinyl fetishist working in a little indie store at the height of the grunge boom…fucking BLAMMO, you are going to get your sales on, Seattleites! At what amounts to roughly $2.92 per single (or $3.33 if you go for the 6-month sub), and with at least 2 tracks per platter, we’re talkin’ ’round $1.46 per track. Consider that nowadays people are paying 99 cents apiece for these shitty, pathetic, tinny-sounding little downloads with no artwork or sweet colored vinyl to look at.  PFFT! I’ll take my Singles Club & go home, thanks. Wish it was still around, I’d still be a member, dammit.
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Infatueighties: #79: The Show
For someone who considers themselves a serious hip-hop fan, there’s surprisingly little hip-hop on this Top 100 list. I think there’s maybe 8 rap songs on this list (now when I decide to do the Nineties list, that might be a different story). That said, the songs that did make it to this list are stone cold classics, and Doug E. Fresh and MC Ricky D.’s The Show certainly qualifies.
For a song with essentially no […]