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cross in the woods
from blanche posted in music by ratsnamgod
"The World's Largest Crucifix" named by implication in the song title and lyrics. A popular stop while driving "north on 75" to the Upper Peninsula or Mackinac.
While this bronze statue is 55 feet tall, a 60 foot tall wire rendition of Christ on the cross can be found in Bardstown, KY.
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from jurassic 5 posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
The cover for Jurassic 5's album Quality Control was shot at the intersection of San Vicente Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. The tree stump that they have their headphones plugged into was either a prop or it's since been completely uprooted.
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from the streets posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
The Streets first album Original Pirate Material: London's Kestrel House
The photograph, titled "Towering Inferno", is by the German photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg.
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from frank black posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
That Cult of Ray album cover is terrible. Why did I post that? Here is the Narbonne mascot. According to Frank Black himself: "They were called the Gauchos after the Argentinian Gauchos because, of course, the high school was called Narbonne High School after Narbonne, France." Makes sense.
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from frank black posted in music by nevereatshreddedwheat
Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV a.k.a Black Francis a.k.a Frank Black attended high school at Narbonne in the early '80s. A student Shazeb Andleeb was beaten to death here in 1995, the subject of the song The Last Stand Of Shazeb Andleeb off of Frank Black's third album The Cult of Ray.
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