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Was doing some web-sleuthing this afternoon and ran across this video excerpt from the Classic Albums documentary series episode about Nirvana's Nevermind. The short clip features producer Butch Vig demonstrating the individual mixing tracks from In Bloom, commenting on its various parts and pieces, from the awesome groove of the isolated drums and bass (which they got on the first take), to Dave's harmonizing on the chorus. I was ...

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In Bloom was the fourth and final single released from Nirvana's Nevermind. The familiar and famous video debuted in 1992 featured the band parodying 1960's style television musical performances (think the Ed Sullivan show). It's a tounge-in-cheek humorous production showing a somewhat more playful side of a band whose image (and the social movement it tipified) was generally sullen and full of, you guessed it, angst. But behold! the original ...

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When Travis covered ...Baby One More Time as tender British comfort rock, it was cute. [audio:070715BabyOneMoreTime.mp3] When Jonathan Coultan did Baby Got Back as a singer/songwriter folk troubadour, it was funny. When The Gourds played Gin n' Juice in up-the-mountain bluegrass style, it was just bizarre. Play:

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Seis de Mayo edition. Yeah, What They Said, pointers to interesting stories. Some people call it “link sharing.” :: Debunking the Myths of Peer to Peer in Regards to CD sales From the horse's mouth, the effect of file-sharing, peer to peer, downloading, and copying on a small indie label unaffiliated with any of the majors. Kurt Cobain: the man, not the myth Very nice write up of Kurt Cobain: About a Son, a ...

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When it comes to my iTunes library, I'm a regular statistics nut. Sure, my library exists primarily for my own enjoyment, but it contains so much organically-compiled data about my habits and tastes that I can't help but want to take a look at it and find out what the data says about my interests. But for a while now, I've struggled to quantify, tabulate and analyze the overall sense ...

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Update: The revised sorting feature/problem in iTunes 7.3 and later renders portions of this advice useless. Some of it still applies for Smart Playlist building, but the segregated sorting no longer works. If you're using a version prior to 7.3, go nuts. If you're using 7.3 or later, be warned. In striving for zen-like simplicity while maintaining and extending the usability of iTunes, please follow me as I introduce you ...

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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 news has got ...

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For some reason over the years, Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. Here we have one of those songs that no one ever talks about. It sits around being under-appreciated, despite all the hard work it does at being one of Nirvana's true great masterpieces. For some reason, it's constantly overshadowed by its bigger brothers. Come on! It is nearly last ...

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I'm usually opposed to orchestras attempting to play pop/rock music. Those things just never seems to turn out as well as one would expect. But this performace of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit by Western Branch Freshmen Orchestra is quite nice. As both an orchestra fan and Nirvana fan, I give it great kudos. The orchestra is based at Western Branch High School (home of the Western Branch Bruins) in ...

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