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Morphine (band)

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Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989. [1]

70 relations: A-side and B-side, Alternative rock, Australia, B-Sides and Otherwise, Baritone saxophone, Bass guitar, Bass saxophone, Beat Generation, Beavis and Butt-Head, Belgium, Blues, Bootleg Detroit, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Campus radio, Crooner, Cure for Pain, Dana Colley, Dobro, DreamWorks Records, Electric guitar, Electric organ, Experimental rock, Face to Face (New Wave band), Facebook, France, Good (Morphine album), Grammy Award, Guitar, Hi-n-Dry, Independent record label, Indie rock, Italy, Jamie Caliri, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jeremy Lyons, Jerome Deupree, Lead vocalist, Like Swimming, Mark Sandman, Massachusetts, MTV, Myocardial infarction, New England, New Orleans, Nielsen SoundScan, NPR, Palestrina, Percussion instrument, Piano, ..., Portugal, Power trio, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rhino Entertainment, Rock music, Rome, Rykodisc, Sandbox: The Mark Sandman Box Set, Slide guitar, Spanking the Monkey, The Best of Morphine: 1992–1995, The Night (album), The Phoenix (newspaper), Treat Her Right, Twinemen, United States, Vapors of Morphine, Wild Things (film), Yes (Morphine album), 120 Minutes. Expand index (20 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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B-Sides and Otherwise

B-Sides and Otherwise was a collection of B-Sides and previously unreleased songs by Morphine, put out in 1997 by the Rykodisc label.

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Baritone saxophone

The baritone saxophone or "bari sax" is one of the largest members of the saxophone family, only being smaller than the bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bass saxophone

The bass saxophone is one of the largest members of the saxophone family—larger than the more commonly encountered baritone saxophone.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Beavis and Butt-Head

Beavis and Butt-Head is an American adult animated sitcom created and designed by Mike Judge.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bootleg Detroit

Bootleg Detroit is the only authorized release of a live recording of Morphine.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Campus radio

Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution.

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Crooner

Crooner is an American epithet given primarily to male singers of jazz standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, backed by either a full orchestra, a big band or a piano.

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Cure for Pain

Cure for Pain is the second album by alternative rock band Morphine, released through Rykodisc in 1993.

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Dana Colley

Dana Colley (born October 17, 1961 in Portland, Maine) is an American musician, best known as the baritone and tenor saxophonist in the alternative rock band Morphine.

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Dobro

Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitar, currently owned by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

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DreamWorks Records

DreamWorks Records (often referred in copyright notices as SKG Music, LLC) was an American record label founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Electric organ

An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Face to Face (New Wave band)

Face to Face was a Pop / Rock / New Wave quintet from Boston, Massachusetts.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Good (Morphine album)

Good is the first album recorded by the Boston-based alternative rock trio Morphine.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hi-n-Dry

Hi-n-Dry is a Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA-based independent record label and recording studio.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jamie Caliri

Jamie Caliri (born February 22, 1970 in Buffalo, New York) is an American director, known primarily for music videos, television commercials and title sequences.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jeremy Lyons

Jeremy Lyons (born March 24, 1970) is an American musician, currently based in Massachusetts.

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Jerome Deupree

Jerome Deupree (born November 9, 1956 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American musician, based in Massachusetts.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Like Swimming

Like Swimming is a 1997 album by the alternative rock band Morphine.

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Mark Sandman

Mark Sandman (September 24, 1952 – July 3, 1999) was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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Nielsen SoundScan

Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Palestrina

Palestrina (ancient Praeneste; Πραίνεστος, Prainestos) is an ancient city and comune (municipality) with a population of about 21,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.

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Power trio

A power trio is a rock and roll band format having a lineup of electric guitar, bass guitar and drum kit (drums and cymbals), leaving out the second rhythm guitar or keyboard instrument (e.g., Hammond organ) that are used in other rock music bands that are quartets and quintets.

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Rahsaan Roland Kirk (August 7, 1935Kernfeld, Barry. "." The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. Ed. Barry Kernfeld. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Retrieved on 2009-02-01. "The year of his birth has been widely given as 1936, but his birth certificate gives 1935 and confirms Ronald, not Roland." – December 5, 1977) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Rykodisc

Rykodisc was an American record label.

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Sandbox: The Mark Sandman Box Set

Sandbox: The Mark Sandman Box Set is a double album by the Morphine frontman Mark Sandman, released in November 2004.

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Slide guitar

Slide guitar is a particular technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues-style music.

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Spanking the Monkey

Spanking the Monkey is a 1994 American black comedy film written and directed by David O. Russell.

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The Best of Morphine: 1992–1995

The Best Of Morphine, 1992-1995 is a greatest hits compilation by the band Morphine, released on the label Rykodisc in the year 2003.

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The Night (album)

The Night is the fifth and final studio album by the alternative rock band Morphine.

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The Phoenix (newspaper)

The Phoenix (stylized as The Phœnix) was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the Portland Phoenix and the now-defunct Boston Phoenix, Providence Phoenix and Worcester Phoenix.

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Treat Her Right

Treat Her Right is a blues rock group formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1984.

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Twinemen

Twinemen is an alternative rock band based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA created by former members of the bands Morphine and Face to Face.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vapors of Morphine

Vapors of Morphine is an American rock band founded in 2009 by the surviving members of the alternative rock band Morphine Dana Colley and Jerome Deupree and blues guitarist Jeremy Lyons.

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Wild Things (film)

Wild Things is a 1998 American erotic thriller film directed by John McNaughton and starring Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Kevin Bacon, Denise Richards and Theresa Russell.

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Yes (Morphine album)

Yes is an album by alternative rock band Morphine, released in March 1995.

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120 Minutes

120 Minutes is a television show in the United States dedicated to the alternative music genre, originally airing on MTV from 1986 to 2000, and then on MTV's sister channel MTV2 from 2001 to 2003.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine_(band)

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