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5/3/2005

Song poems, part II: mining low-grade ore

By Kenneth Rainey. Filed under: GigBlog, TweedBlog.

I played the Hideout with Ed Burch again last evening, and we did a few more song poems from the excellent documentary Off the Charts. Finding good pop music has always been like mining low-grade ore, but this is especially the case with song poems. Most of them are virtually unlistenable, but the good ones are strangely compelling. (more…)