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	<title>Music Discussions</title>
	
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		<title>Albums for review 2009-11-07</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/729</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthday Massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Sabbath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Men Without Hats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tribute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have bought a couple of more albums that I hope to have a chance to review soon.  Also, I have changed my stance on &#34;digital music&#34; so these albums were purchased online.  I will explain the reason for this change later in the week.

The newest list of albums that I plan on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Halloween 2009</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/718</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/718#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[guitar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rocky Horror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Halloween is coming up soon, and you know what that means!  The annual &#8220;Rocky Horror Picture Show&#8221; viewings that are going to be held in parks, theaters, and private homes all around the country (and possibly other countries as well).

In celebration of the holiday and of &#8220;The Rocky Horror Picture Show&#8221; I have embedded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unusual band names</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/702</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/702#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reader suggestions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death Cab for Cutie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dokken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duran Duran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flaming Lips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[name]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Zombie]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following are 10 of the most bizarre band names that I have encountered.  I am sure that there are stranger &#8211; or at least as strange &#8211; band names, but either I am not coming up with them at the moment, or I have never heard of them.

Many groups name themselves after one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People who can’t play “The Name Game”</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/694</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/694#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[reader suggestions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banana song]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[name game]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know that the &#34;Name Game&#34; is not recent and, in fact, it came out over a decade before I was born, but I felt that I had to address a serious (or humorous) issue.

This song was created as a children&#8217;s sing-a-long originally.  However, I do not think that the writer thought this through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Chick’s views on music</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/688</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/688#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chick]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[devil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Chick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[role-playing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vampire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vampirism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me start out by stating that I have nothing against religion.  I was a religion minor in college, and am myself a Christian.  However, either Jack Chick is a nut-job or he is being satirical and no one gets it.  How does Jack Chick relate to a blog about music?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back in the “studio”</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/685</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/685#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EBM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eff-Bahm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamendo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Last.fm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magnatune]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=685</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I have had a little more free time and some musical ideas so I have gone back in the studio to work on some of them.  I can&#8217;t promise that I will have anything up in the very near future, but I do have some (hopefully) good ideas and have started recording again.

I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New free albums from Amazon</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/679</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/679#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[download]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eastern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has once again released free sampler albums to download.  As always, it is difficult to pass up free music and I am always looking for artists that I have not been previously exposed to.

The first album, Tuff Gong Worldwide World Music Sampler, contains Reggae tracks by Ziggy Marley, Ky-Mani Marley, Cedella Marley, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is everyone so friendly?</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/675</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/675#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs and Sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eff-Bahm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamendo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magnatune]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had received three friend requests on Jamendo. This, in and of itself, is not unusual; however, there are a couple of things that confuse me.

First, I really haven&#8217;t been in my Jamendo account since I created it so I am not an active community member.  And, as near as I can tell, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The music of Gen Con</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/668</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/668#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[event]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gen Con]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ocarina]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://music.ballweb.org/blog/?p=668</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people think of Gen Con as just being about role-playing games, but there are many other types of games represented as well as anime, science fiction, and even music.  I have attended Gen Con for the last two years and each year there have been two groups, a pianist / keyboardist, and many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Albums for review 2009-08-10</title>
		<link>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/666</link>
		<comments>http://music.ballweb.org/blog/archives/666#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[album]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While I am still sitting on a lot of albums that I still need to review &#8211; some of them are even partially reviewed already and just need to be finished &#8211; I did order one new album.  My wife had a gift card for Amazon and was having problems using it all, so [...]]]></description>
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