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Radiohead and Blake
You can certainly consider this one a requested essay.
My buddy Paul Reich from Rollins College tipped me off to a blurb in the Paris Review suggesting that Radiohead may have been inspired by Blake in the writing of OK Computer and that Thom Yorke donated a copy of Blake’s Songs with “Airbag” lyrics written in them.
Now that’s a lead worth following.
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The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band
“Soulshine” by the Allman Brothers Band just because a friend just posted it to Facebook.
And if you want a bit more, here’s the full Live at the Fillmore East concert from 1970:
We don’t actually have an Allman Brothers essay yet.
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Requested Essays: Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor impresses me quite a bit as a musician and, in many ways, as a person.
Requested Essays: Queen
First, I’ve updated the Bowie post to list four essays in the anthology that discuss Bowie. Browse back over there to see the complete list.
Next, I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to list Queen as a requested essay, but here I am. There’s something very Byronic about Freddie Mercury if nothing else, but the band’s affinity with opera opens up discussion to possible intersections with…
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The Ramones!
Rock and Romanticism really needs more essays on punk, especially early punk of the late 70s. I don’t think that we have any essays primarily about any punk band. So my requested essay today is about any punk band, and first about the Ramones, especially since the last original member of the Ramones has recently passed away. What are the intersections between punk and Romanticism? Do second…
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R.I.P. Allen Toussaint Allen Toussaint, perhaps one of the most relatively unknown towering figures of contemporary music, passed away…
Requested Essays, Yes Robert McParland's "Imagination, Power Chords, and the Visionary Company" discusses Yes along with other progressive rock bands, but I think it'd be interesting to have an essay devoted exclusively to Yes.
Radiohead: “Karma Police” Radiohead is a perpetual requested essay:
