Feature: Sunday Morning Playlist
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Tribute to Los Angeles - The Top 25 Songs About L.A.— uao picks 25 tunes from the rock era that best represent Los Angeles throughout the past 50 years.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Heavy Metal— Heavy Metal needs no introduction. The loudest, druggiest, most doom-laden music of all; the music most likely to be outgrown.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Farewell Early 00's-- A retrospective top-20 of 2001-2005— Farewell early 00's! We still haven't even agreed on a name for you, yet. uao cherrypicks 20 favorites.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Top Twenty Record Producers of the Rock Era— A salute to the often-overlooked creative forces behind your favorite artists: The Producers. Spector, Albini, Vig, Martin, et. al.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Rick Rubin, Producer— Can Neil Diamond sound cool? An appraisal of Rick Rubin productions 1985-2005. Picks by Robert Burke, commentary by uao.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: A Britpop Primer for Yanks, 1990-2005— A salute to England's major rock renaissance of the 1990's; what did Americans miss during the alt-rock era?
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Bonus Playlist: Give Up The Funk!— uao revisits the classic names in funk from the 1970's and picks a twenty song sampler.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Garage Rock of the 1960s— Twenty memorable garage-rock bands from the original indie era.
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Top 50 Women In Rock, Part II: The Best of the Rest?— The sequel to "Top 25 Women In Rock?" uao picks #26-#50 and braces himself.
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Top 25 Women In Rock?— uao's arbitrary but considered tribute to 25 women who helped shape rock and alt-rock.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Haight Ashbury— Geateful Dead; Jefferson Airplane; Santana; The Charlatans; It's A Beautiful Day; Steve Miller Band; Quicksilver Messenger Service; Moby Grape; Big Brother & The Holding Co.; Blue Cheer; Electric Flag; The Great Society; Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks; Hot Tuna;
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Sunday Morning Playlist: British Invasion— The Beatles; The Rolling Stones; The Yardbirds; The Who; The Kinks; The Animals; The Hollies; The Troggs; The Zombies; The Pretty Things; Them; The Searchers; Peter And Gordon; Lulu; Petula Clark; Herman's Hermits; The Small Faces; The Swinging Blue Jeans;
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Arena Rock— Foreigner; Journey; Heart; Blue Oyster Cult; Styx; .38 Special; Meat Loaf; REO Speedwagon; Boston; Pat Benatar; Cheap Trick; Peter Frampton; Kansas; Ted Nugent; The Tubes; Kiss; Bad Company; Pink Floyd; Aerosmith; Loverboy
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Alternative Rock— R.E.M.; Nirvana; Smashing Pumpkins; Radiohead; Beck; The Breeders; The Verve; Jane's Addiction; My Bloody Valentine; Camper Van Beethoven; Sonic Youth; Pavement; Pearl Jam; Primal Scream; Galaxie 500; Nine Inch Nails; Red Hot Chili Peppers; Soundgarden; Green Day; Dinosaur Jr.
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Playlist: Canadian Rock— Rush; April Wine; Cowboy Junkies; Barenaked Ladies; Max Webster; The Guess Who; Arcade Fire; Bachman-Turner Overdrive; Teenage Head; Skinny Puppy; Gordon Lightfoot; Bryan Adams; Blue Rodeo; The Tragically Hip; The Band; Paul Anka; The Crew Cuts; Buffy St. Marie; Bruce
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Covering The Blues— Muddy Waters; Howlin' Wolf; Roy Brown; Robert Johnson; Elmore James; Sonny Boy Williamson II; Albert King; Koko Taylor; Big Mama Thornton; Skip James; Slim Harpo; Wilbert Harrison; Leadbelly; Rev. Gary Davis; John Lee Hooker; Memphis Minnie; Blind Lemon Jefferson; Odetta;
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Soul— James Brown; Marvin Gaye; Ben E. King; Aretha Franklin; Sam and Dave; Stevie Wonder; Al Green; Junior Walker; The Spinners; The O'Jays; The Temptations; The Delfonics; Percy Sledge; Otis Redding; Bill Withers; Curtis Mayfield; Sam Cooke; Ray Charles; Ike and
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Jangle Pop— R.E.M.; Guadalcanal Diary; Beat Farmers; The Bangles; The Feelies; The Soft Boys; Let's Active; Camper Van beethoven; The Replacements; The dB's.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Trip-Hop— Prtishead; Massive Attack; Beth Orton; Moloko; Soul II Soul; Kruder & Dorfmeister; Olive; Sneaker Pimps; Propellerheads; Death In Vegas
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Soft Rock— Billy Joel; Boz Scaggs; Elton John; Bread; Barry Manilow; Air Supply; Chicago; The Bee Gees; Wings; Seals & Crofts.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Dream Pop— Cocteau Twins; Mazzy Star; Galaxie 500; Lush; Moose; His Name Is Alive; Mercury Rev; Mojave 3; Single Gun Theory; Luna.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Proto Punk— Velvet Underground; The Stooges; Pere Ubu; MC5; New York Dolls; Television; Captain Beefheart; The Modern Lovers; Flamin' Groovies; The Dictators
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Electronica— Chemical Brothers; Moby; Aphex Twin; The Orb; Tricky; The Prodigy; Underworld; Massive Attack; DJ Shadow; Mouse on Mars
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Acid Rock— Iron Butterfly, Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf, SRC, Ultimate Spinach, Kak, Attila, The Frost, Electric Prunes, Big Brother & The Holding Co.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Lo-Fi— Obviously, low fidelity refers to sonic quality, as in a low fidelity recording or a low fidelity tape. It is naturally trebly, neither reaching crispness on the cymbals, or timbre in the bass. It is often the sign
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Emo— Emo is a style of rock that reached its zenith towards the end of the 1990's; its roots lie in hardcore punk, although emo itself isn't punk rock; it also owes some debt to grunge, but it isn't grunge, either.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Paisley Underground— Bangles; Green On Red; Long Ryders; Rain Parade; Three O'Clock; Game Theory; True West; Dream Syndicate; Thin White Rope; Opal
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Noise Pop— Jesus And Mary Chain; Velocity Girl; My Bloody Valentine; Yo La Tengo; Pavement; The Flaming Lips; Ride; Mercury Rev; Sparklehorse; Archers Of Loaf.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Grunge— The emergence of grunge at the start of the 1990's was the culmination of a decade plus of indie music, and also was a major revitalization of rock as a viable commercial proposition. Simply put, grunge represents what in
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Detroit Rock— It was the music that accompanied the rapid and painful decline of Detroit as a sophisticated middle class city, 4th largest in the nation in 1960, to a hollowed out shell of its former self, its population nearly halved.
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Sunday Morning Playlist: Blues Rock— Rock 'n' roll, of course, owes its very existence to blues; it is a debt that largely went unacknowledged until the mid-1960's when a number of bands on both sides of the Atlantic began emphasizing the blues inherent in rock,
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