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I spent a few years after college living in a variety of locales in the Detroit area and working shit jobs as I passed off my mid-twenties waiting to see what use the world might have for me.

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Thank you to Maureen Rich Hart who brought this to our attention.

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“I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow.”

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The hardest part about doing a striptease (no puns, people) is choosing the right soundtrack. Here are 33 songs that will get you to rip those pants off, fast!

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“We belong together,” I pleaded. “Can I call you?” She answered no, put up another away message and returned to being lazy with what’s-his-name (whose name I knew but didn’t want to say because it was decidedly more masculine than my own). Over the next few hours I alternated between leaving her voicemail messages and sobbing. At some point I thoughtlessly broke things off with my new girlfriend.

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The best love songs make it possible for you to feel like you’re in love for the duration of the song. Even if you’ve been single for some time, you can play the song and feel like you belong to somebody. That’s what “I Only Have Eyes For You” does for me.

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The criteria for this list is pretty basic: a good cover both honors the quality of the original song, as well as adds a level of nuance and individuality to it that justifies having done a cover in the first place, and any cover of a Beatles song has been disqualified on principle.

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Nine Inch Nails’ “March of the Pigs” (2002) industrial aesthetic, shot live in one take in a bare warehouse studio, embodies the band’s no nonsense disposition. Front man Trent Reznor, known for an abrasive facetiously tortured stage presence, delivers many of his trademark moves, examined herein.

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I get it. You don’t care about “stuff,” like the music industry, life in general, and whatever. You live in New York and your band The Strokes are the languid Godsons of punk. And it’s all rather precious and charming, but watch where you’re throwing that mic stand, because you just might hit that Production Assistant whose life isn’t so hot right now…

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In this early interview with the Cleveland local news, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor offers some thoughts about the cool new electronic music his band “Exotic Birds” is making. Obviously this was before he discovered The Cure and emptiness of life. Vintage video after the jump.