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A blog for music, mainly covering indie rock, emo, k-pop and j-pop.
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Too Much is Never Enough: 1981 and 1982 (opens the original)
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Do you remember the first music video you ever saw? While it was likely a segment on Sesame Street or Blue’s Clues mimicking the music video form in my experience, the first one that truly left an impression on me was the video for Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz. The major driver for Feel Good Inc.’s success on the charts was its video, and if you’ve ever seen it you would instantly get why. The image of the animated bandmate Noodle strumming along on her guitar as a CGI windmill island floats in th
Introducing Too Much is Never Enough: The MTV Story (opens the original)
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It cannot be understated how important August 1, 1981 was for popular culture. That day, a scrappy Warner-backed cable TV channel armed with five hosts, a few hundred video clips and a prayer launched into the world at midnight that day. That channel, MTV, would take over the American consciousness–and the world at large–in the years to come. The story of early MTV has become almost mythical, its tales having been retold numerous times through books, web articles, documentaries, and even an upco
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