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Scott Robinson
Jun 30, 20223 min read
Steely Dan at the Grammies
It’s February 21, 2001, and the new millennium is barely underway. Stevie Wonder and Bette Midler stand at a microphone before the...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 18, 20226 min read
Piano Men
I came of age in the Seventies – and given my family background, there could not have been a more perfect time for it, where my musical...
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Scott Robinson
May 6, 20226 min read
Beatles Love Letters on the Radio
We've noted that each of the three songwriting Beatles wrote songs to the women in their lives – songs that were explicitly biographical,...
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Scott Robinson
May 5, 20226 min read
Pattie Boyd's Greatest Hits
Pattie Boyd Harrison Clapton – possibly the most written-about woman in all of rock. As recorded above, Pattie became the third Beatle...
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Scott Robinson
May 5, 20223 min read
The Women of Rubber Soul
Rubber Soul is widely regarded as a transitional album for the Beatles. Released in December 1965, it represents the beginning of the...
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Scott Robinson
May 5, 202214 min read
Pepper, in Particular
The classical touches in the Beatles canon are all over their work, and only increased and improved with time. A culmination can be seen,...
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Scott Robinson
May 5, 202216 min read
Quoting the Classics
It’s one of the oldest clichés in music that the best artists steal from other artists. It should be a comfort to know that the great...
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Scott Robinson
May 5, 20226 min read
The Feminist Beatles
Earlier, we excoriated the Beatles for their misogynistic missteps. Below, we praise them for their emergent feminism. To fully...
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Scott Robinson
May 4, 20224 min read
Wordle Bonding
In recent months, I’ve started every day with the same ritual: I roll out of bed, fix a cup of coffee, and play Wordle. I was, I think, a...
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Scott Robinson
May 4, 20222 min read
Laundryball
The washing machine was invented by a man. Nah! you surely scoff, if men had any say in it, clothes wouldn’t get washed at all! Or,...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 19, 20224 min read
The Best Beatles Album to Have Sex To
Fans of a certain age will remember the early Seventies, a singular era when psychedelia had let album-oriented rock into our bedrooms,...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 4, 20222 min read
The Greatest Internship on Earth!
INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE Are you a young man between the ages of 16-18, looking for a work experience that will prepare you for literally...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 30, 20227 min read
Joy to the World
The little bell above the shop door dingled as Sophie McDonald, age twenty-two, rushed in and flew across the floor, pushing past her...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 5, 202118 min read
Mandarin Redux
I The horizon was pink and gray and laced with strands of bright silver lightning. The near-full moon had begun glaring down through a...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 26, 20215 min read
Alice Cooper, Limp Bizkit, and Rock Fraud
Alice Cooper is a fraud. The granddaddy of shock rock, who peaked somewhere around the election of Jimmy Carter, is a prominent if not...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 25, 20215 min read
The Disturbed Sound of Silence
There are some elements of rock that have simply gotten stronger and stronger over time, immune to the dilutions of fashion and...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 30, 20218 min read
Menagerie
She carefully tied her shoes with well-crafted loops (as always), tucking the shopping list (which was almost always the same) into the...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 8, 20218 min read
Bad Dog!
Young Jessie Petrie scooted herself up in her bed with effort, cautious of the IV in her left arm, rising up enough to survey her entire...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 2, 20218 min read
A Little Light Reading
Sunlight flared and the windshield dimmed, and the Director glanced to his left as the transport dropped past his own cruiser, tossing...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 26, 20213 min read
Drowning in Dopamine
Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, reported to the Wall Street Journal that we are facing a new and dangerous form of...
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