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		<title>Playlist Changes &amp; General Updates</title>
		<link>http://taylis.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/playlist-changes-general-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I know... I haven't been keeping this up much since November. I've made excuses, but the simple fact is, life has kept me rather busy. I'm taking a moment right now to work at bringing this up to date.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taylis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8082617&amp;post=238&amp;subd=taylis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Superman&#8217;s Song&#8221; &#8211; Crash Test Dummies</title>
		<link>http://taylis.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/supermans-song-crash-test-dummies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Solomon Grundy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1991, Canadian band Crash Test Dummies released their debut album, The Ghosts That Haunt Me.  The song that introduced the band to the world, the band's debut single and first release from the album, was a melancholic ode to Superman, simply entitled "Superman's Song".<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taylis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8082617&amp;post=235&amp;subd=taylis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Nirvana &#8211; &#8220;Live At Reading&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://taylis.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/review-nirvana-live-at-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taylis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CD review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVD review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[live at reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nirvana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I've mostly been away from this site for the last two months, but am starting back in with my first product review in a while.  In late 2009, Nirvana released their first "real" live album.  Note that they had previously released the Unplugged session in 1994 and followed that up with the 1996 album From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah, a collection of assorted live performances throughout their career.  But 2009's Live At Reading is their first album that covers a single regular concert of their career.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taylis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8082617&amp;post=231&amp;subd=taylis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Observations Upon Ripping MP3s From Various Artist CDs</title>
		<link>http://taylis.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/observations-upon-ripping-mp3s-from-various-artist-cds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blondie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foghat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MP3]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran through my collection of various artist CDs and finished ripping MP3s of all the tracks that I was interested in having in my digital library.  It was kind of an intriguing experience, as I discovered some weird things in my collection that I hadn't realized before. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taylis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8082617&amp;post=228&amp;subd=taylis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Erasure&#8217;s &#8220;The Innocents&#8221; reissue &amp; blog status</title>
		<link>http://taylis.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/update-erasures-the-innocents-reissue-blog-status/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Innocents 2009]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two quick notes: 1) The North American release of Erasure&#8217;s The Innocents 21st Anniversary edition has been delayed due to manufacturing issues.  It will not be released here until December 8th.  Still no word on a US release of the &#8220;Phantom Bride&#8221; EP &#8211; while I doubted a physical release would occur here, I&#8217;m disappointed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taylis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8082617&amp;post=226&amp;subd=taylis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playlist: Erasure &#8211; &#8220;I Say I Say I Say&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://taylis.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/playlist-erasure-i-say-i-say-i-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Always]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first Erasure album to be released after I started following them was 1994’s I Say I Say I Say.  Erasure had fallen out of support here in the US (not that they ever had a lot of support here), so there wasn’t a lot of buzz leading into the release of the album.  I remember hearing about the single for “Always” from a friend of mine who had seen it in the store.  I had just recently gotten Internet access through my college, and soon located an e-mail based discussion group for Erasure, which I participated in for several years, keeping up with news of what was happening with the band.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taylis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8082617&amp;post=222&amp;subd=taylis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playlist: Erasure &#8211; &#8220;Chorus&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://taylis.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/playlist-erasure-chorus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ABBA-esque]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October of 1991, Erasure released their fifth album.  This was the first album of theirs that came out after I started paying attention to the band and the first album of theirs that I ever owned.  Chorus was a landmark album for Erasure; Vince focused on using analog synthesizers rather than digital on this album, which caused some substantial changes to the recording of the album and the arrangements of tracks for live performances.  The tour for Chorus was an immense spectacle that allowed Andy the opportunity to run through a variety of costume changes with a group of dancers performing Broadway-inspired (or any type of musical theater) dance numbers during many of the songs.  (Fans should be sure to check out the concert film, The Tank, The Swan, And The Balloon, a fabulous presentation of this tour)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taylis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8082617&amp;post=217&amp;subd=taylis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playlist: Erasure &#8211; &#8220;Wild!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://taylis.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/playlist-erasure-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taylis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blue Savannah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drama!]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Erasure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Looking Glass Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Too Darn Hot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first album that I remember listening to from Erasure was the Wild! album.  Released in 1989, the album contains the singles “Drama,” “Blue Savannah,” and “Star”, plus the non-US single (and my favorite among the singles) “You Surround Me.”  In our ongoing series of “deluxe edition” playlists I’ve created for my own listening pleasure, we now turn our attention to Erasure’s fourth album.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taylis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8082617&amp;post=210&amp;subd=taylis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playlist: Erasure &#8211; &#8220;The Innocents&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://taylis.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/playlist-erasure-the-innocents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Playlist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Little Respect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chains Of Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crackers International]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we turn our attention to Erasure’s third album, The Innocents.  This is the point at which the band broke into the mainstream in the US – though only for a short time.  The two biggest singles they’ve released in this country are easily “Chains Of Love” and “A Little Respect” – the only two singles that were released in this country for this album.  (The first single, “Ship Of Fools”, was never released in the US)  In late October, Mute Records is releasing a deluxe version of this landmark album as a three disc set, with the third disc being a live concert film on DVD.  (This will get a US release in late November)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taylis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8082617&amp;post=206&amp;subd=taylis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playlist: Erasure &#8211; &#8220;The Circus&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://taylis.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/playlist-erasure-the-circus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Bell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[It Doesn't Have To Be]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Two Ring Circus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victim Of Love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, the first post in this series of custom Erasure deluxe edition albums was posted.  Today, we have the next volume – Erasure’s second album, The Circus.  The new group’s first release, Wonderland, had been a surprising failure on the charts for a project from Vince Clarke.  Vince had a string of successful singles with Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and The Assembly; when none of the singles from Wonderland could break into the top 50 of the UK chart (let alone make the top 40 chart), most didn’t have high expectations for Erasure’s second album.  And since Yazoo had only barely released their second album before they broke up, expectations were likely pretty strong that Erasure’s days were numbered.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=taylis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8082617&amp;post=191&amp;subd=taylis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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