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Sep 16 2023

Encounters with Great Recordings of the 20th Century, #5: A Tribe Called Quest, "Midnight Marauders"

By Glenn Kenny Encounters With Great Recordings, Media notes, Personal history

Now that Rolling Stone magazine is in the news again, and again for a not-great reason, it seems an opportune time for me to own up to something in a…

Aug 02 2017

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Encounters With Great Recording Of The 20th Century #4: Lou Reed, "The RCA And Arista Album Collection" (Released and acquired October 2016)

By Glenn Kenny Encounters With Great Recordings

For Scott Lemieux and Brian Koppelman. I was a very poorly socialized child. After my incredibly obese toddlerhood, I assumed the more or less regular dimensions of a boy. But…

Mar 27 2014

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Encounters With Great Recordings Of The Twentieth Century, #3: Art Bears, "Hopes and Fears;" Fred Frith, "Guitar Solos" (Release dates May 1978 and October 1974, respectively; date of acquisition, circa November 1978)

By Glenn Kenny Encounters With Great Recordings, Music

As I may have mentioned somewhere, or as you may have been able to infer somehow through my writing, as a teenager I was a fairly religious reader of the…

Sep 08 2011

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Encounters With Great Recordings Of The Twentieth Century, #2: Roy Haynes/Phineas Newborn/Paul Chambers, "We Three" (Release date, likely early 1959, date of acquisition, some time in 1990)

By Glenn Kenny 20th Century history, Encounters With Great Recordings, Music

I have no problem admitting I'm a Phineas Newborn dilettante. Even Stanley Booth, the author of the thorough, admiring, and extremely painful appreciation of Newborn that was my first exposure…

Nov 10 2010

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Encounters With Great Recordings Of The Twentieth Century, #1: Pere Ubu, "The Modern Dance" (Release date, January 1978, date of acquisition, some time around January 1978)

By Glenn Kenny 20th Century history, Encounters With Great Recordings, Music, self-indulgence

For Chris Wells. Many were the times during my childhood and adolescence when, due to my consumption and enjoyment of certain particular pieces of popular or, I should more accurately…

Encounters With Great Recordings

Encounters with Great Recordings of the 20th Century, #5: A Tribe Called Quest, "Midnight Marauders"

Encounters With Great Recording Of The 20th Century #4: Lou Reed, "The RCA And Arista Album Collection" (Released and acquired October 2016)

Encounters With Great Recordings Of The Twentieth Century, #3: Art Bears, "Hopes and Fears;" Fred Frith, "Guitar Solos" (Release dates May 1978 and October 1974, respectively; date of acquisition, circa November 1978)

Encounters With Great Recordings Of The Twentieth Century, #2: Roy Haynes/Phineas Newborn/Paul Chambers, "We Three" (Release date, likely early 1959, date of acquisition, some time in 1990)

Encounters With Great Recordings Of The Twentieth Century, #1: Pere Ubu, "The Modern Dance" (Release date, January 1978, date of acquisition, some time around January 1978)

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