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Happy Birthday, John Lennon.

Happiest guitars: Doctor Robert
Trippiest harmonies, pre-drugs: There’s A Place
Only cool whistle, ever: Jealous Guy

Separate but related: All Beatles albums compressed into an hour

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Screw it, I’m just gonna do this…

If anyone cares to, I’d love additions or protests.

Separate: yesterday, I was really burnin’ to buy The Smiths’ Singles. I know greatest hits collections are taboo for music snobs, but I love this particular one and wanted it. Dyna and I were hoofing around and struck out at three record stores, including the mega-Virgin in Union Square. Not even a megastore? I was disappointed. However, walking out of the ‘S’ aisle, my eye was caught by the Bruce Springsteen live set for only $20.

Twenty dollars! That’s a steal! In high school, I systematically decided that I liked Bruce Springsteen based on the recommendations of friends I [...]

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The members of my family — and perhaps many of you — enjoy overstatement. Kevin put “The Fellowship of the Ring” on his top ten movies for 2001 — in December of 2000, after seeing the trailer for it. “This is my favorite movie of all time” he said of this film which was not yet in post-production.

Along those lines, I love finding gushing reviews on allmusic.com. The interface is annoying, but you can’t beat the breadth of information available.

Like the last line of its review of Van Halen’s first album: “Everyone on the planet should own a copy of this landmark release.” Love it.

Or the opening of its biography of The Beatles: “To start with the [...]

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