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#275: serge gainsbourg - ecce homo (1981)
according to google’s analytics services, 69 french visitors (truly) have read the super groovy music video extravaganza this year, which really warms my heart, and would definitely have warmed serge gainsbourg’s heart too if it hadn’t stopped its amorous ticktock in 1991. i bring that up because i’m going to france tomorrow (to...
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#263: neil young (and crazy horse) - cortez the killer (1978)
you’d think that a man who can sing the high notes of immensely perfect four-part harmonies (our house is the sissiest song of the 60s) wouldn’t be able to sludge his way through muddy, creaky, nine-minute odes to conquistadors (or through entire albums about heroin overdoses), but neil young is cool like that.
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