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Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Episode 23: "The Modern Lovers" with Sean L. Maloney
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
The Modern Lovers is the essential document of American alienation, an escape route from the cultural wasteland of postwar suburbia. But The Modern Lovers was never meant to be an album; it is a collection of demos, recorded in fits and starts as Jonathan Richman and his band negotiate modernity and the music industry
Sean L. Maloney talks with us about one of punk rock's foundational documents, the archetype for indie obsession, and why Pablo Picasso just might have been called an asshole. All but disowned by its author, The Modern Lovers was an album doomed by its own coolness from day one. Hear why...
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