Divine Platonic Love
by Oded

Comment:
Divine Platonic Love did John Cage one better, releasing an entire album of silence. Actually, it was a mistake by an incompetent distribution service, but the acclaim they received was so tremendous that they didn't dare admit to it. In truth, they were actually a fairly conventional folk rock band.

Expectation was tremendous for their second album, and the band was feeling rather desperate. At first, they tried a straightforward approach, making their arrangements more innovative, their lyrics more complex, but realized they were overreaching and that anything less than a revolutionary idea would sorely disappoint their fans. Finally, they decided to simply outdo their first mistake and release... empty packaging. No CD was included at all.

The critics were impressed, but CD stores were flooded with returns. Amazingly, their label signed them to one more album in spite of them almost being bankrupted by the second one. This time, the stores received a set of instructions instead of CDs.

1. Open your local newspaper to page 7.
2. Circle every occurrence of "D" "P" and "L"
3. Fold into a crane.
4. Sell for $7.77

Stores had trouble keeping up with the demand. For a while, origamists were surprised to find work in the Classified section.

For the past three years we thought we were waiting for their fourth album, but in a recent interview DPL claimed to have already released it.

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Diddy 'Photog' Lane
by Buckeye_Fan

Comment:
Everyone knew Photog to be a loner, which is one of many reasons why his collaboration with the Flaming Pears was such a surprise, but the result was remarkable. The Pears were forced to rein in their excesses, creating stirring harmonies over which Photog rapped his most profound lyrics yet.

your picture is a fixture so clear in my tears,
I'm fixed to the mixture of fears that I hear
in my brain, can't explain the pain that remains
so I stare at your hair while you glare with disdain,
I can't speak of the weakness that peaks in my heart,
I would die, I would lie, from the start do my part
to keep us in deep forever for better
or worse from the hearse to the cradle I'm able
to save you, I crave you, you hate me, you bait me,
I look for the hook, I'm all shook up and stuck,
out of luck, I won't duck and I'm struck so let's

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Dfunk'd: Postmillenial Landscape
by noraneko

Comment:
D:PL was formed from the ashes of Dfunk'd, a drum and bass duo out of Chicago. Because of their constant, almost violent, fighting they were unable to record an album. Desperate, they disbanded and re-formed with Chris on drums and Tony on bass. Something clicked. They decided the new millenium was theirs, as you can tell by the fierce confidence of their first album. Unfortunately, they made the mistake of illegally sampling Biggie and Tupac in the same song. They haven't been seen since.

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David's Private Life
by e301

Comment:
There was nothing private about it. Everyone knew that David was David Cassidy, but after that girl died at his concert, he needed some sort of shield, some facade he could at least pretend to hide behind. So he started a band. Not a family band. He would never go down that road again. He felt most comfortable in the company of strangers, and the world is full of desperate musicians, so he had his pick. Together, they created a sort of Latino gospel sound that the world had never heard before, with David's sweet high tones on top if it all like a luscious whipped cream. Seven different critics were publicly moved to tears by the third track, "In Your Good-bye Arms." Was it about the end of the Partridge Family? His dead fan? The replacement of a real family with a fake one? The ruination of his rock star dreams by a teen idol nightmare? It was about all those things and more. It was about every tear that was never shed, every boy sent to a desert, the tight lips of a realization... It was with this album that David Cassidy cut his hair and became a man.

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Death Proves Life
by electrolost

Comment:
Death Proves Life was started in 1977 by Tom Waits' little sister. She was only 14 at the time, but she loved to rock. She also became fascinated with the idea that she couldn't really be sure she was alive until she died. Morbid for a child so young, but her big brother had been taking her to cemeteries and making up stories about the people who were buried there. She couldn't help but notice that their stories were so much more varied and vivid than the lives all around her, even and especially her own life. She started her band with a couple of her disaffected classmates in an attempt to commune with those myriad magnificent dead. She turned their stories into songs, hoping that they could hear her, hoping that she could hear them. At age 16, she made her final album, "Slave to the grain," after realizing that her brother had just made up all those stories. For her the "grain" represented the direction her life was lumbering, but also the noise in the air, the noise that she used to think was the dead trying to speak to her, but now seemed nothing more than the blare of expectations, the fuzz of normalcy deadening her existence.

They found the suicide note taped to her mirror. Drawn on the bottom was her symbol for the constant noise that she couldn't get out of her ears: a swordfish trombone.

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Daredevil Psychotic Ladybugs
by freakin_hilarious

Comment:
On The High Wire

slap me again
oh slap me again
I never wanted to be your friend
kick me harder
kick me higher
I'm getting bored on the high wire

net made of gazes
the crowd it amazes
it's one of my phases
why higher? why higher?
I'm getting bored
on the high wire.

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Devotional Prayers Light
by yanko

Comment:
DPL was to Tibetan monk chanting what cool jazz was to jazz. Nothing like a few tinkly bells to lighten up those guttural growls. Hey, she's not a Buddhist! How'd she get on the cover? Turns out she was the guest artist on their hit single, "Hello Dalai"

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Delicate Plant Life
by Lorene

Comment:
I see what the dandelion dreams
I taste what trees pull from the stream
sympathy is a complicated scheme
but I seem
to be on the seam
of dandelion dreams

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Diminutive Polychromatic Lightning
by DrAchoo

Comment:
DPL's second album did indeed have more cowbell, but nothing could top their cover of Flight of the Bumblebee. Sadly, they were doomed to be one-hit wonders. 9

Dead Pan Ladies
by dragonlady

Comment:
Punk metal band Dead Pan Ladies were huge in Lansing but never quite hit the national scene. Their tribute to John Denver, "Back Roads," in which they played "Country Roads" backwards, was their best selling album... which isn't saying much.

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