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Mark Peters But while “Beyoncé” means “cataclysmically beautiful” to me, her name has a few other meanings to the other humans who scribble and scrabble around the Internet. Forgive them, Beyoncé!  For his second solo album in 1984, former Eagle Don Henley put away the twang of his former band and embraced the synthesizer. The result, Building The Perfect Beast, placed multiple singles on the charts and even made the poker-faced Henley an unlikely MTV star.  Pain Teens sounded like Texas. The band took the tape manipulations, decontextualized vocal samples, and motorik beat of industrial music and wed it to something uniquely Texan: fuzz guitar psychedelia.  This week’s Baker’s Dozen highlights 13 albums from the 1970s that often go unmentioned when discussing the best music from the decade.  With Norah Jones’ The Fall, there may be a few more guitars and drums tossed into the mix this time around in the place of her piano, but this is still music that attempts to resonate without ever getting in your face.  The Simon Cowell of Urinals and Other Preposterous Potty ProblemsBy
Mark Peters Unless you’ve been living under a rock lodged beneath a boulder, I don’t think I need to explain who Simon Cowell is; he makes substantially more public appearances than the Yeti. |
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