Video: David Bowie - Rare "Heroes" 1977 Bing Crosby Special

I was set up this morning to write a little bit about LCD Soundsystem...not really something undiscovered or needing of press, but it's a beautifully composed album. James Murphy seems to pull from a lot of things I love: Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Joy Division...so the album hits me in the right places. The track "All I Want" always stuck in my ear, because the guitar riff felt warmly familiar. The song opens with a warmly dissonant, wandering guitar lead that I ultimately figured out is the love child of riffs from Brian Eno's 'Here Come The [...]

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No, not that Gordon. This is Sting, who has come out on top of a survey to find the world's worst lyricists , part of a rash of not-really-news surveys that have been causing mild discomfort and intimate itching this last couple of days: The schoolteacher-turned-rock star topped Blender's list of the worst lyricists, thanks to lines that betray "mountainous pomposity (and) cloying spirituality," the music magazine said. It's not often that we see acclamation for Sting that we feel able to throw our weight behind, but they do have a point. To [...]