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My Favorite Songs : Loose Fur/Jeff Tweedy "Laminated Cat"

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Ten Favorite Music Documentaries

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1 We Jam Econo 2 No Direction Home 3 Be Here To Love Me 4 Dig! 5 The Last Waltz 6 Anvil! The Story of Anvil 7 You May Need a Murderer 8 Don't Look Back 9 The Devil and Daniel Johnston 10 The Future Is Unwritten

Under Great White Northern Lights

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I had a fairly short-lived fling with The White Stripes. A good friend back east and I used to listen to White Blood Cells to no end after it came out, and although I continued buying their records, I can't say I cared all that much following their rise in the early 2000s. I've always respected Jack White and found the one performance I caught in NYC to be quite good, but their records, outside of WBC , just didn't stick. Similar to my Nirvana re-discovery a few months back, of late, I've found myself returning to The White Stripes. I think it may have a lot to do with my disappointment with today's music. Since I was so immersed in the 90s and early 00s, I guess I'm returning to some of the acts I sort of passed over. Back then, there was such an abundance of talent that I simply couldn't cover it all. Perhaps I'm now looking to fill in the holes. A few spins of White Blood Cells and then Elephant began the rekindling. And then last night, upon ret