tunequest

So the news recently hit that Weird Al finally has a Top 10 record after all these years. According to Billboard, that's 73,000 copies of Straight Outta Lynwood sold. Congrats to Al; he deserves it. It's worth noting, though, that album sales are down overall and that nearly equal sales of 72,310 only ranked a 16 on the Billboard 200 for 1999's Running with Scissors. But really, that ...

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I came of musical age during the so-called alternative era, when "alternative" was more of an actual alternative to the mainstream rock/pop of the early 90s. However, due to my relatively young age and relative cultural backwater, the movement was well on its way to mainstream-ization by the time it swung through my burg. The year was 1993 and at the tender age of 14 I ...

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Free Download: Anatomy of a Gutless Wonder Anatomy of a Gutless Wonder was one of the last songs released by Velocity Girl before the group's break up in late 1996. It's only available as the b-side to the 7" single Nothing from the group's final album gilded stars and zealous hearts. I picked it up (along with the Your Smiling Face single) directly from subpop.com in my ...

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In retrospect, I probably should have saved Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Anthology for the last album on the tunequest. It would seem fitting that my last song played should be the last song on this album: Mission Accomplished. Alas, it is not to be; I finished listening to that album just moments ago. However, there are other suitable songs for that distinction. At the moment, it's reserved for ...

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London's herbaliser brings together a masterpiece on nearly every album and 1997's blow your headphones is no different. hip-hop-funk-rock at its finest. it's well composed and smoothly executed; listenable on its own, or as i played it, as some fine background music for a couple rounds of pictionary. i can't recommend this stuff enough. Dmitri from Paris' A Night at the Playboy Mansion is similar, in that ...

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