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    • Fiona AppleBefore this year escapes us, I have one final year to celebrate. 1996 was a mixed year, the last one before Hanson's "MMMBop," Jewel's "You Were Meant For Me" and Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life" would change music as we know it for all eternity.

      The following is a brief sample of what you missed if you weren't paying attention at this particular moment in time. One truth you wouldn't know is Alanis Morissette, who with just one 'r' and two 's' and 't's, set the music world on fire with three hits not named "You Oughta Know": "Ironic," which ironically wasn't ironic, "You Learn," which may or may be as educational as it sounds, and "Head Over Feet," which is, I am told, a Yoga pose. No one's calling her a one-hit wonder!

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    • Just as promised Part Two is everything Part One wasn't. Twenty-five albums not listed in the previous installment, proving that 1991 was a year that consisted of more than just U2's Achtung Baby and Nirvana's Nevermind. Yep, there were other albums and I can't wait for the 20th Anniversary Edition of that Fatima Mansions album.

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    • To think when it was happening, 1991 felt like another year of moderate returns. By 2011 standards, it was a goshdarn goldmine. This two-part walk back onto memory lane, no jaywalking please, proves that it was kinda nice when the music industry had many different major labels to choose from among the indies. I've left a few good ones off in order to make Part Two another riveting read!

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    • Protest music is often too literal. Music relies on emotion, on gestalt, on grey areas where art does it duty. You want black and white, check out math. Humans are fallible beings (except for the Pope, of course). The shadows are where the most interesting things occur.

      This list is weird. It was decided often by how much a given song actually moved me. Other songs might work better in crowds. But slogans make for bad songs. "Give Peace a Chance"? Sure, but don't make me listen to it.

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    • While it's more likely that the protesters at the Occupy sites throughout the world are listening to the strains of Radiohead, Coldplay, Kanye West and Tennessee Ernie Ford, there is a great tradition in America and, heck, the world when it comes to musicians speaking out.

      Obviously, these aren't the only protest singers, but they are among the most essential, the ones your record collection needs because they didn't just stand up to the man, they made it into the collective consciousness and you will be seen as far more worldly for knowing their names. Most political music is about as entertaining as a speech. As much as I may detest certain Supreme Court rulings or certain politicians, I hate them even more when they make musicians I like lousy!

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    • 20 Crazy Covers Albums

      With word that Susan Boyle is releasing her third album, Someone To Watch Over Me, with selections that include Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence" (LISTEN HERE) and Tears For Fears' "Mad World" (LISTEN HERE) we here at List of the Day decided to list 20 of the craziest albums of covers we've ever heard. That doesn't mean Susan's album is bad. Just unusual. If anything, we were a little disappointed that the rest of Miss Susan's album features stuff like Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" and, well, "Someone To Watch Over Me." I would've been psyched if she covered "When The Levee Breaks" or "Welcome to the Terrordome" or "I Want Your Sex." But there's always next time!

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    • Sure, The Misfits are great for Halloween. But they make you feel good about yourself. However, there are other musicians who make you feel very, very bad about yourself. Those acts are the true horror of life. They make you feel as if your life is worth less than it truly is. Let us think of ten. And write in your own. If I see my name listed, I'll know you love me, to.

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    • Willy Vlautin of the Portland, Oregon band Richmond Fontaine has a new my-t-fine album called The High Country and it's said that it's influenced by himself. That's not as egotistical as it sounds. For Vlautin was influenced by his endeavors as a novelist.

      For some unknown reason, musicians write books. I don't mean just their autobiographies. That stuff is expected. But books where they write about things that have nothing to do with the life of the rock and roll. Novels, I suppose you would call them.

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    • Scary is subjective. I don't find most metal bands scary. Corny, but not scary. Well, Phil Anselmo scares me. That voice. I found Air Supply to be scarier than the bands listed below. But that's for reasons other than their stage show and their wonderful hair. Many punk bands would qualify as scary since the chances of having your eyeballs punched out was a clear possibility if you attended a FEAR concert.

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    • Upon the announcement that Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland would be releasing Scott Weiland's Christmas Album, we here at List of the Day! went snooping around for other holiday albums that would fit nicely alongside it. As I went looking, I also learned that She & Him would be releasing A Very She & Him Christmas, "she" being "New Girl" Zooey Deschanel and "Him" being him, the guy that doesn't matter.

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