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The Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XXIII

A mini-cowboy from hell gets his Western font on, a set of Brazilian Blink 182 hopefuls dedicate an entire lyric sheet to a roll of toilet paper, another effective use of Hollywood fair-use b-roll footage [...]

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Lyricapsule: ‘Grease’ Hits Broadway; June 7, 1972

A year after debuting in a Chicago blues club, the iconic post-war musical Grease orchestrated its way onto Broadway on this day in 1972. Much of the gritty, midwestern drama and sass was torqued along [...]

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Lyricapsule: R. Kelly’s ‘Trapped in the Closet’; June 6, 2002

There’s an old literary weapon called the “Iceberg Theory” in which an artist cuts out bits of what the story is more deeply about, leaving all the fun and imagination up to the receiver of [...]

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Lyricapsule: Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps Drop ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’; June 5, 1956

Quite a shame that Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps didn’t make it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame until 2012, over 40 years after Vincent’s death at 36-years-young. The Rockabilly extension of [...]

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This Game Will Tear Us Apart: Joy Division Song Inspires Game

Should Ian Curtis‘ most infamous post-punk epitaph, “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” not wrestle out the catharsis you’re looking for, a Copenhagen-based designer Gordon Calleja took to bending the narrative of the 1980 Joy Division gem verse-by-verse in a game he’s [...]

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Lyricapsule: The Who Become the Loudest Band on Earth; May 31, 1976

Long before Jack White and his paltry Guinness reach for most metaphors in a concert, there was The Who on this day in 1976 chasing the “loudest band” moniker, of which they achieved, dutifully recorded [...]

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The Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XXII

From thug grammar instructions to new visions of summertime teenage dreams, widen those eyeballs, as the words splay across your screen in week 22, of the year’s best convergence of lyric and video. Shamu. Semicolon. [...]

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Lyricapsule: Joan of Arc is Burned at the Stake; May 30, 1431

Citing the voice of God as incentive to lead the French to victory over the English during the Hundred Years War, a 19-years-young Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy on this [...]

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Lyricapsule: Jeff Buckley Drowns; May 29, 1997

Singer-songwriter lionheart Jeff Buckley was only 30-years-young when he accidentally drowned mid-swim in the Wolf River near Memphis, Tennessee. According to a roadie that was with him at the time, he dove in singing Led [...]

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Lyricapsule: Percy Sledge Takes ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ to No. 1; May 28, 1966

Recorded a month and some change prior without a lyric game plan, previously unknown Alabama hospital orderly, Percy Sledge, started a two-week Billboard No. 1 run on this day in 1966 with “When a Man [...]

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