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Category Archives: Music

June 8, 2013 Ranking “Weird Al” Yankovic in 3-D

This is the second in a series of transplanted articles from my other blog. The transplants will run on Saturdays until they’re all over here. They are copied and pasted, but might get slight edits here and there. Al’s second album, released in 1984, which was still earlier than I first heard him. This is […]

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June 1, 2013 Ranking Weird Al Yankovic

This is the first in a series of transplanted articles from my other blog. The transplants will run on Saturdays until they’re all over here. They are copied and pasted, but might get slight edits here and there. Today I’m starting a series I’ve been mulling for a long time now: going through each of […]

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May 22, 2013 White & Nerdy

  White & Nerdy is one of my favorite Weird Al songs. It’s just so relatable, man. At least, I always felt like it was related.  I’m white, I’m nerdy – seems like I fit the bill.  But I thought maybe I should break it down piece by piece to see if I meet the […]

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February 26, 2013 Tuesday 49: Music Harmonix Introduced Me To

Harmonix are the people behind Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero 2, and the Rock Band series (and the Dance Central series, but for the purposes of today’s list I will be ignoring that). In every one of these games, I have been introduced to music I was either unfamiliar with or hadn’t enjoyed until I got […]

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February 8, 2013 Favorite Things: Scene From Yes Man

I am fascinated by what appeals to people – more specifically, I am fascinated by what things get assigned to the “universally good” pile, things that the overwhelming majority would say they liked: The Princess Bride, The Cosby Show, The Beatles (whoa, hey, they all have “the” in common). Sure, you’ll find a contrarian here […]

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