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* '''VindicatedByHistory''': A shining example. His music lingered for decades in obscurity until his fame in other countries finally reached the Western world. Having an [[Film/SearchingForSugarMan award-winning documentary]] about him certainly helped a lot.
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* '''VindicatedByHistory''': '''VindicatedByHistory:''' A shining example. His music lingered for decades in obscurity until his fame in other countries finally reached the Western world. Having an [[Film/SearchingForSugarMan award-winning documentary]] about him certainly helped a lot.
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* PosthumousPopularityPotential: And that's before they found out he was ''alive.''
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Rodriguez' lyrics are '''''not''''' subtle about the CrapsackWorld around him.
** SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Then again, this is [[WrongSideOfTheTracks 1960s Detroit]] we're talking about.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Rodriguez' lyrics are '''''not''''' subtle about the CrapsackWorld around him. \n** SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Then again, this is [[WrongSideOfTheTracks 1960s Detroit]] we're talking about.
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* '''VindicatedByHistory''': A shining example. His music lingered for decades in obscurity until his fame in other countries finally reached the Western world. Having an [[Film/SearchingForSugarMan award-winning documentary]] about him certainly helped a lot.lot.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Rodriguez had more knockout songs on a mere two albums than many other {{Singer Songwriter}}s can dream about.
** "I Wonder" and its catchy bassline is a mercilessly sardonic breakup song.
** "Crucify Your Mind" is also a breakup song, but it takes a more defeated tone, with a more melodic arrangement.
** "Sugar Man," as songs about drugs go, could give Music/JeffersonAirplane's "White Rabbit" a run for its money.
** "I Think Of You" is a beautiful love song out of a normally very cynical singer.
** It's a tie between "Cause" and [[LongTitle "This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues"]] for his most cathartically ''angry'' social commentary song.
** "Sandrevan Lullaby/Lifestyles," split between a warm, guitar-based piece and a classic Rodriguez CrapsackWorld song, is something of a minor masterpiece.
** "I Wonder" and its catchy bassline is a mercilessly sardonic breakup song.
** "Crucify Your Mind" is also a breakup song, but it takes a more defeated tone, with a more melodic arrangement.
** "Sugar Man," as songs about drugs go, could give Music/JeffersonAirplane's "White Rabbit" a run for its money.
** "I Think Of You" is a beautiful love song out of a normally very cynical singer.
** It's a tie between "Cause" and [[LongTitle "This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues"]] for his most cathartically ''angry'' social commentary song.
** "Sandrevan Lullaby/Lifestyles," split between a warm, guitar-based piece and a classic Rodriguez CrapsackWorld song, is something of a minor masterpiece.
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* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff South Africans Love Rodriguez]]: You'd be hard-pressed to find a more impressive instance of this happening to anyone else.
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* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In this case, South Africans Love Rodriguez]]: Rodriguez. You'd be hard-pressed to find a more impressive instance of this happening to anyone else.
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** "Cause." Dear God, this one is ''bleak.'' It's more or less a poem set to music, a poem about paying your dues in life and never seeing anything in return. It gets even darker subtext considering it's the last song on ''Coming From Reality,'' the last song Rodriguez ever recorded, and thus ending the initial phase of his career in failure. Talk about DownerEnding!
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** "Cause." Dear God, this one is ''bleak.'' It's more or less a poem set to music, a poem about paying your dues in life and never seeing anything in return. It gets even darker subtext considering it's the last song on ''Coming From Reality,'' the last song Rodriguez ever recorded, and thus ending the initial phase of his career in failure. Talk about DownerEnding!
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* EpicRiff: The killer bassline from “I Wonder,” which doubles as an EarWorm. As seen in the [[Film/SearchingForSugarMan documentary]], his big comeback concert in South Africa opened with this song.
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* EpicRiff: The killer bassline from “I Wonder,” which doubles as an EarWorm.ear worm. As seen in the [[Film/SearchingForSugarMan documentary]], his big comeback concert in South Africa opened with this song.
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* CultClassic: Both of his albums.
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* FairForItsDay: "A Most Disgusting Song" discusses how Rodriguez has played "every kind of bar there is to play" including "faggot bars." Of course, that wasn't nearly as much of a slur at the beginning of the 70s as it is now.
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* FairForItsDay: "A Most Disgusting Song" discusses how Rodriguez has played "every kind of bar there is to play" including "faggot bars." Of course, that wasn't nearly as much of a slur at the beginning of the 70s as it is now.
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* '''VindicatedByHistory''': A shining example. His music lingered for decades in obscurity until his fame in other countries finally reached the Western world.
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* '''VindicatedByHistory''': A shining example. His music lingered for decades in obscurity until his fame in other countries finally reached the Western world. Having an [[Film/SearchingForSugarMan award-winning documentary]] about him certainly helped a lot.
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* CriticalDissonance: Critics always loved Rodriguez despite his lack of success. They still do.
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* EpicRiff: The killer bassline from “I Wonder.” Wonder,” which doubles as an EarWorm. As seen in the [[Film/SearchingForSugarMan documentary]], his big comeback concert in South Africa opened with this song. song.
* FairForItsDay: "A Most Disgusting Song" discusses how Rodriguez has played "every kind of bar there is to play" including "faggot bars." Of course, that wasn't nearly as much of a slur at the beginning of the 70s as it is now.
* FairForItsDay: "A Most Disgusting Song" discusses how Rodriguez has played "every kind of bar there is to play" including "faggot bars." Of course, that wasn't nearly as much of a slur at the beginning of the 70s as it is now.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Rodriguez had more knockout songs on a mere two albums than many other {{Singer Songwriter}}s can dream about.
** "I Wonder" and its catchy bassline is a mercilessly sardonic breakup song.
** "Crucify Your Mind" is also a breakup song, but it takes a more defeated tone, with a more melodic arrangement.
** "Sugar Man," as songs about drugs go, could give Music/JeffersonAirplane's "White Rabbit" a run for its money.
** "I Think Of You" is a beautiful love song out of a normally very cynical singer.
** It's a tie between "Cause" and [[LongTitle "This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues"]] for his most cathartically ''angry'' social commentary song.
** "Sandrevan Lullaby/Lifestyles," split between a warm, guitar-based piece and a classic Rodriguez CrapsackWorld song, is something of a minor masterpiece.
** "I Wonder" and its catchy bassline is a mercilessly sardonic breakup song.
** "Crucify Your Mind" is also a breakup song, but it takes a more defeated tone, with a more melodic arrangement.
** "Sugar Man," as songs about drugs go, could give Music/JeffersonAirplane's "White Rabbit" a run for its money.
** "I Think Of You" is a beautiful love song out of a normally very cynical singer.
** It's a tie between "Cause" and [[LongTitle "This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues"]] for his most cathartically ''angry'' social commentary song.
** "Sandrevan Lullaby/Lifestyles," split between a warm, guitar-based piece and a classic Rodriguez CrapsackWorld song, is something of a minor masterpiece.
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* '''VindicatedByHistory''': A shining example. His music lingered for decades in obscurity until his fame in other countries finally reached the Western world. One can only guess as to how his career would've turned out had he gotten his due in the early 70s.
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* ValuesResonance: The reason he struck it big in South Africa. The societal turmoil and apathetic leadership in Detroit during TheSixties that Rodriguez commented on in his music were similar to what was happening during apartheid.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: "Establishment Blues" is a tip of the musical hat to Music/BobDylan's "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)".
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* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Cold Fact'' generally seems to be viewed as slightly better than ''Coming from Reality'', though they're both well-respected (''Coming from Reality'' is considered a little less gritty and more introspective than the debut).
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* HarsherInHindsight: As pointed out in ''Film/SearchingForSugarMan'', the last song on ''Coming from Reality'', "Cause", opens with the line "'Cause I lost my job two weeks before Christmas". Shortly after the release, the label dropped him, and it happened to be in mid-December.
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* HarsherInHindsight: As pointed out in ''Film/SearchingForSugarMan'', the last song on ''Coming from Reality'', "Cause", opens with the line "'Cause I lost my job two weeks before Christmas". Shortly after the release, the release his label dropped him, and it happened to be in mid-December.
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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: "Sugar Man" should sound weary and disillusioned, but the thick, spacey production just makes it psychedelic awesome. Hell, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlusc7lS0_4 Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP remix]] brings this trope to a whole new generation.
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* CriticalDissonance: Critics always loved Rodriguez despite his lack of success. They still do.
* EpicRiff: The killer bassline from “I Wonder.” As seen in the [[Film/SearchingForSugarMan documentary]], his big comeback concert in South Africa opened with this song.
* SignatureSong: Arguably, “Sugar Man.”
* TearJerker: “I’ll Slip Away.”
* EpicRiff: The killer bassline from “I Wonder.” As seen in the [[Film/SearchingForSugarMan documentary]], his big comeback concert in South Africa opened with this song.
* SignatureSong: Arguably, “Sugar Man.”
* TearJerker: “I’ll Slip Away.”
