5Top: Five singers who ruined pop music

Sure, he could sound like John Lennon on one album and Luther Vandross on the next. But that was the problem with David Bowie — in his heyday he seemed more of a theatrical chameleon who tried on personas than an impassioned rock singer. Bowie’s restless experimentalism allowed him to pull off being coolly distant and affected. Sadly, others copped his affectations without his intelligent approach. For a while in the 1980s, it seemed as if nearly every singer drew more from Bowie’s European theater tradition of singing than the tradition of rock singing itself (which came from R&B and gospel sources). Those who succumbed to Bowie-itis included everyone from Ric Ocasek of the Cars to David Byrne of Talking Heads to Robert Palmer to even Cyndi Lauper and Madonna. In short, anytime anyone tries on a vocal persona instead of singing from the heart, they’re channeling the Thin White Duke.

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CNN Exposed: Incomplete Fact-Checking & Commentary

Monday, October 12, 2009 the second segment of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart featured a hard hitting mini-expose' on CNN 24 hour news channel. Mr.

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LOS ANGELES -- An apologetic David Letterman trotted out before the cameras Monday night with a quip that raised questions and fetched laughs: "There's a possibility," he said, "that I'll be the first talk-show host impeached."

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10 Random Songs -- Weekend Playlist #3

1. Love Supreme by The Flower Kings from Adam & Eve -- One of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands. The Flower Kings has been one of those bands keeping prog music alive and well through its third wave.

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The commercial was short and pungent; a 15-second tribute to the tangled state of modern media.

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David Byrne has published a piece in the WSJ describing his perfect urban mashups.

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Somehow Glenn Beck's wacky proclamations never ceases to amaze in both their inaccuracy and outrageousness. In case you missed this, here's a video of Beck taking potshots at Special Advisor on Green Jobs Van Jones (he's Beck's new favorite target)

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80s Music Videos Revolutionized Video Production

Its amazing to watch the progression in technology when you watch the music videos from the 1980's. In the early 80's, around 1980 when MTV first started the production value was extremely low and within a matter of 3 years you see a vast improvement in video quality.

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The Virulent Myth

Throughout the history of the United States, talking heads who fancy themselves political experts have made use of buzzwords to describe those who oppose their ideals.

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Ben Stein lives on a different planet than the rest of America less than 12 months ago he was still pushing the Bush economy like it was better for the country than moms apple pie and chicken noodle soup.

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The White House has its chief of staff playing manipulative games with washed up talking heads, targeting me on the taxpayer dime. This country doesn't need another administration playing dirty tricks and making enemy lists.

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Talk show hosts, hyper-partisan bloggers, and shock-value writers and filmmakers all have a legitimate place in the realm of the political, and perhaps rightly are paid tremendous amounts of money to fill that place.

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They seemed so important at the time, didn't they? The issues over which much ink was spilled, many talking heads blathered, and, in some cases, congressional committees were convened. More Articles

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With attacks on autistic children, the poor, and HIV-positive basketball star Magic Johnson, talking heads showed that nobody was safe in 2008, no matter how unfounded and unseemly the smear.

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This has been a campaign season when the conventional wisdom has fared about as well as Bob Barr's prospects for moving into the Oval Office.

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I'm not sure how long this clip will be around.

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If you happened to venture to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid this summer, you may have come across Julio, a robot who sings in the voice of former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne while mimicking the facial expressions of a human crooner.

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Despite Barack Obama's (D) amazingly consistent lead throughout the general election over John McCain (R), the talking heads on cable television returned to their incessant bloviating over whether Obama should be leading by more than just five points over McCain.

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So you think you know Oil? Think again...

By John David Powell So you think you know oil: maybe not June 29, 2008 10:00 AM EST Here we are with a new week and another round of posturing, politicking, and punditry regarding the price of petroleum. As happens when folks do a lot of talking, very little is said.

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If you walk to the southern tip of Manhattan past the skyscrapers of Wall Street, just where the crowds gather for the Staten Island ferry, you'll see (and hear) something extraordinary.

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David Byrne Uses An Entire Building as a Giant Instrument

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All the spin boils down to a simple truth: Clinton now has almost no chance of winning on the delegate count.

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Someone insulted somebody else, and the Talking Heads said something about it.

Breaking news!

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After years of feeding my habit, this political TV junkie finally suffered from total, absolute burnout.

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Headlines News is the MTV of 24-hour news

There was a time when Headline News had the most descriptive motto of all twenty-four hour new channels: "A whole day's news every half-hour."This motto stated outright the content and purpose of the channel.

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Hilly Kristal, founder and owner of CBGB's, died Tuesday at the age of 75 after complications from lung cancer. And while the debate may rage on as to whether punk is really dead or not, one thing is for certain, the fabled Bowery music club will now live on only in memories.

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