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• Rihanna – Rated R

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  What a fascinating career Rihanna has already had. By 2008, she had sold more than 12 million albums worldwide and notched more #1 singles than any other woman this decade (or century, or millennium). And she was just 19 years old, having gone from an unknown schoolgirl in a small [...]
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• Song of the Day #494: ‘Buddy X’ – Neneh Cherry

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  Now here’s a song that takes me back. When I worked in a movie theater during college, we used to play these MovieTunes CDs on repeat all day. They still use them today, at least until ‘The Twenty’ starts. The CDs are about 45 minutes long and feature a dozen or [...]
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• Song of the Day #493: ‘I’m a Loser’ – The Beatles

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  After ‘What You’re Doing,’ my favorite song on Beatles For Sale is John Lennon’s ‘I’m a Loser.’ Lennon dressed up his famously low self esteem in a song about a failed relationship but really about his own insecurities. Lennon was paying a lot of attention to Bob Dylan at the time, [...]
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• Song of the Day #492: ‘Eight Days a Week’ – The Beatles

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  The Beatles’ fourth album, Beatles For Sale, has the dubious honor of being my least favorite of the band’s releases. Nestled between A Hard Day’s Night and Help! with half of its tracklist dedicated to covers, it never really stood a chance. But, as the saying goes, the worst Beatles album [...]
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• Song of the Day #491: ‘Medicine Wheel’ – Aimee Mann

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  Aimee Mann’s sixth album of original material, 2008’s @#%&*! Smilers, is her best work yet. It’s the first since Bachelor No. 2 to work as a simple collection of songs and not a concept album and perhaps it was that freedom that allowed her to produce such a consistently great [...]
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• Song of the Day #490: ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ – Aimee Mann

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  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! It’s appropriate, I suppose, that Aimee Mann’s discography positions her Christmas album, One More Drifter in the Snow, on this neighboring holiday. Mann and Christmas might seem like an odd mix, but hearing her versions of the classics on this album it’s clear that both share an underlying [...]
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• Song of the Day #489: ‘Little Bombs’ – Aimee Mann

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  While Lost in Space was an unofficial concept album, Aimee Mann’s next release, 2005’s The Forgotten Arm, was the real deal. Set in the 1970s, it’s the story of an alcoholic boxer and Vietnam vet, John, and the woman he loves, Caroline. The songs track their ups and downs and [...]
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• Song of the Day #488: ‘It’s Not’ – Aimee Mann

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  Two years after Bachelor No. 2, Aimee Mann released her second album on her Superego label, 2002’s Lost in Space. The record is unofficially a concept album exploring self-destructive behavior of all sorts — the perfect Christmas gift for your favorite messed-up friend. Typical lyric: “Get out while you can, baby, [...]
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• Lyle Lovett – Natural Forces

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  When I wrapped up my recent Lyle Lovett theme weeks, I held out hope that he would break out of the slump he’d been in for the past dozen years or so. His last album, It’s Not Big It’s Large, was a step in the right direction — a bit [...]
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• John Mayer – Battle Studies

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  I’m often intrigued by the group think exhibited by music and movie critics — not so much in their appraisal of a new work but in the angle from which they approach it. The most recent example I’ve noticed is in the commentary on John Mayer’s new album, Battle Studies, [...]
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