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March 3, 2010 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

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Tuesday was the 20th - count it! - anniversary of I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, the polarizing breakthrough LP by Sinead O'Connor. There's a fascinating write-up about the record and its aftermath over at Popdose that really shows off what an intriguing figure O'Connor was at the time. It certainly says something that an album with one Top 40 hit (her only one) sold over 7 million copies in its day. Clearly something was up here. I completely forgot that the record was given a double-disc

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Categories: News Tags: Prince, Reissue Theory

February 23, 2010 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

I've been listening to Pet Sounds a lot lately. Maybe it's the dreary weather; whenever I put on some Beach Boys things feel a bit sunnier. But it's a heck of a record (as I'm sure most of you know) - one of those rarified few that's hard to chop down entirely. It's also fascinating that it's one on a rather short list of pop albums that have supported its own box set. The sprawling The Pet Sounds Sessions, released in 1997, chronicles the process of the album through alternate mixes, outtakes,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Open Forum, Prince, The Beach Boys, The Beatles

February 15, 2010 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eObzOkRXUZw] Music aggregator The Daily Swarm made a heck of a discovery today: seven YouTube videos of Prince rehearsing some of the hits, B-sides and rarities from the Purple Rain era in 1984. Given that Prince has famously come down on YouTube like a ton of bricks - threatening legal action against a mother who posted a video of her baby dancing to a few seconds of "Let's Go Crazy" - this definitely falls under the "get it while it's hot"

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Prince

February 9, 2010 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

The other day I was talking about how us catalogue fans can sometimes end up wanting that one missing track to add to our collections. I used the 45 version of Billy Joel's "Sometimes a Fantasy," which runs well past the fade-out on the LP, as an example. Interestingly enough, I realized that the track also adhered to another concept I realized I'm enamored of concerning music in general. When I was a kid, I was always interested in the idea of a fade-out. You'd be listening to a song, getting

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Categories: News Tags: Bryan Adams, Michael Jackson, Open Forum, Prince, Squeeze

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