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from wilco posted in music by ratsnamgod
The corn cob buildings featured on the cover of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the towers of Marina City in Chicago. Marina City is a mixed residential/commercial location. 2010 census data reported 929 residents. Businesses include the House of Blues, Bin36, a bowling alley and a bank.
The album's title is derived from The Conet Project, which is also sampled on the track "Poor Places".
Hear Phonetic Alphabet NATO, disc 1, track 4
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from the cramps posted in music by donkeyoti
On June 13, 1978, the garage band/psychobilly/goth rock band The Cramps gave a unique free concert for patients at the California State Mental Hospital in Napa, CA. The show was recorded on a Sony Portapak video camera by the San Francisco collective Target Video and later released as Live at Napa State Mental Hospital.
You can watch it here.
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from björk, spike jonze posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
Björk gets tired of her cat boyfriend, goes to Iceland's Sirkus bar and sings along with the locals, and this still might not even be Spike Jonze's weirdest video.
Sirkus, a bar in downtown Reykjavik, was a popular hub for artists and musicians in Iceland until it was demolished in 2008 to make room for hotels, shopping centers and/or parking garages.
Watch Björk dance with a giant cat in "Triumph of the Heart"
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from daft punk, spike jonze posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
Spike Jonze's music video for Daft Punk's "Da Funk," a story called "Big City Nights" about an anthropomorphized dog, was filmed in New York's East Village. In the last sad shot, Charles the dog is left standing in front of the old Nightingale Bar on 2nd Ave and 13th St. after he doesn't follow the girl on the bus because he doesn't want to abandon his boombox.
Nightingale's used to be a dive bar. Jam bands like Spin Doctors and Blues Traveler played here early on in their careers, but it's since been remodeled.
Watch "Big City Nights"
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from hüsker dü, husker du posted in music by pete_nice
The cover of Hüsker Dü's landmark 1984 album Zen Arcade features a hand-colored photo of a car-crushing yard. This location is down in the Pig's Eye Lake industrial area (not sure if this is the exact address, but it's close to there).
Zen Arcade was released on SST Records (#027), the artwork was done by Fake Name Graphics, and the photo was taken by M. Peterson.
The album was recorded at Total Access Recording Studio in Redondo Beach, CA with SST producer Spot. The band recorded 25 tracks, with all but two songs being first takes ("Something I Learned Today" and "Newest Industry"), in 40 hours.
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