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Supreme Beings of Leisure: Overlords of Recreation

September 27th, 2006

The Supreme Beings of Leisure debut has the distinction of being one of two albums that I've ever purchased after hearing less than a minute of music from it. The other is The Dandy Warhols Come Down. I bought it shortly after listening to snippets of a couple of songs at a Barnes & Noble kiosk. Incidentally, it's entirely possible that themodernista sold the cd to me about six ...

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Lalo Schifrin, Portishead and downtempo music

July 10th, 2006

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 The Smashing Pumpkins' ...

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