Toronto Mike

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Everyday Is Hallowe'en

With Wednesday being Halloween, it would be pretty easy to make Ministry's "Everyday Is Hallowe'en" my weekly MP3, but I did that last year. If Halloween had carols, this would be a modern classic.  You never hear it anymore outside of October but it's actually pretty strong.  It's Ministry when
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My Inherent Disadvantage

I heard from a few sources yesterday that Bob Mersereau was promoting his book The Top 100 Canadian Albums which ranks the top Canadian albums of all time.  Freddie P wrote about this on his blog and gave his top five.  I was surprised to realize that I've never ranked
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Black Music for White People

With apologies to Screamin' Jay Hawkins, I love this list of the top 10 rap songs white people love.  It's a pretty strong collection of rap songs your average white person will get awfully excited about. Here's their top ten: Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got BackHouse of Pain - Jump
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Love Junk's Best Song

I know you'll find this hard to believe, but I'm not a particularly social guy.  When I'm told we're expected to make an appearance at a social gathering, dinner party or any collection of peers, I dread it.  Unless I'm ultra comfy I'm liable to find a corner and entertain
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Radiohead Leaves It Up to Us

Boing Boing has a link to the Radiohead store where they're selling their new album, In Rainbows.  Radiohead is doing something very cool here.  Downloads of the album are name-your-own-price. That's right, you decide how much you're willing to pay for the digital downloads of their hot and fresh material.
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Patrick Watson Win 2007 Polaris Prize

My prediction was wrong.  I thought Chad VanGaalen would win the 2007 Polaris Prize, awarded on the basis of artistic merit, regardless of musical genre, profile or record sales.  Instead it went to Montreal's Patrick Watson. To prove how little I know about Patrick Watson, I thought it was a
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Top 5 Grunge Albums?

A web site called Cinema Blend ranked their top 5 grunge albums, and as a product of the grunge outbreak of the early 90s, I read with great interest. I'm not going to analyze their rankings, which includes a rather surprising number one, I'd just like to state how much
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Some Bad Brains

American Hardcore had such great footage of Bad Brains rocking out in Washington, DC and New York City, I feel as if I've discovered something great.  Of course, Bad Brains has been right under my nose this whole time, and most of you are probably laughing at the fact I'm
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Feist on Letterman

I'm just catching up on my YouTubery.  This is a sweet performance of "1234" by Feist on Letterman the other night.  Check out those back up singers.  You'll see members of Broken Social Scene, the New Pornographers, Grizzly Bear and The National.
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Too Early To Cover Yourself?

The latest single from Arcade Fire is "No Cars Go" from their Neon Bible album.  It's a great single, and I'll probably throw it on SLS18, but any fan of Arcade Fire has heard this song before.  Arcade Fire has covered themselves. Before Funeral, Arcade Fire had a self titled
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Heartache Songs

There are eight songs in my collection with the word "heartache" in the title.  Here's the counter punch for the heart songs I listed a couple of years back. Good Morning Heartache - Billy HolidayTonight The Heartache's On Me - Dixie ChicksThat's When Your Heartache Begins - Elvis PresleyNothing But
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Steve Varga Sounds Like A Made Up Name

Somebody named Steve Varga took exception to this entry about Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend being a little too similar to The Rubinoos' I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend. It was a rather interesting comment, so I'm reposting it here.  The spelling and grammatical errors belong to Steve. This goes out to anybody
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If You Could Only Own 20 Albums

There are 1623 complete albums in my collection.  That's a lot of music.  Imagine if you had to start your collection from scratch but you were capped at twenty discs.  Which twenty albums would make the cut? It's a ridiculous question, because in reality there is no 20 CD maximum,
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