Colin Meloy

Person · Open Library

Works

29

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Active from

1974-10-05

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Colin Meloy (born Colin Patrick Henry Meloy on October 5, 1974, in Helena, Montana) is an American musician. He is lead singer and songwriter for The Decemberists and has released three EPs consisting entirely of the works of Morrissey, Shirley Collins, and Sam Cooke (in 2005, 2006, and 2008 respectively). He also has a solo album, Colin Meloy Sings Live! (2008), featuring live tracks selected from a solo tour. Meloy began his song writing days after learning to play the guitar in the seventh

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012

   · 2014 · cited 21,631x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,854x

3. RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,948x

4. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,770x

5. Operating Characteristics of a Rank Correlation Test for Publication Bias

   · 1994 · cited 14,433x

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Quotes

• “A little bit of both. 'Decembrist' is the accepted English translation of the Russian 'Dekabristy.' We appropriated it by adding the extra E, which, in my opinion, made it a better band name. For whatever reason.”
• “All instruments sound fantastic in a church.”
• “My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war ParisSmuggling bombs for the underground.And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence;He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.”
• “Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters,Drag him to a hole until he wakes up nakedClawing at the ceiling of his grave.”

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