Really? I couldn’t believe it when I went on Wikipedia and saw how much praise The Soft Bulletin had got across the board. I’d even forgot that Pitchfork had slotted it #3 album of the 1990’s. So I thought I’d go to Pitchfork and see what all the hullabaloo was all about, since generally to […]
Spotify playlist. Excellent for shuffling. Search for playlist on Spotify app or web player. “I Thought I Held You” (A.M.) “That’s Not the Issue” (A.M.) “Outtasite (Outta Mind)” (Being There) “Say You Miss me” (Being There) “Someday Soon” (Being There) “Can’t Stand it” (Summerteeth) “I’m Always in Love” (Summerteeth) “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (Again)” (Summerteeth) “Ashes of American […]
Spotify playlist. Search for playlist on Spotify app or web player. Meat Puppets – “Flaming Heart” Julia Holter – “Fur Felix” Soundgarden – “The Day I Tried to Live” The Black Keys – “All Hands against His Own” Green Day – “Stab You in the Heart” Nirvana – “Radio Friendly Unit Shifter” The Dodos – […]
Spotify playlist. Search for playlist on Spotify app or web player. Stephen Malkmus – “Xian Man” Real Estate – “Also a But” Wolf Parade – “Julia Take Your Man Home” Green Day – “I Was a Teenage Teenager” “The Who – “Sister Disco” Procol Harum – “The Milk of Human Kindness” Tom Waits – “Old […]
I’m reading this Phil Lesh memoir and though it’s definitely pretty interesting and well written, much like Jorma Kaukonen’s work, he at one point mentions “the beats” (meaning the beat poetry movement) and I just have to say I smell a big time rat with the whole thing. For instance Lesh makes the claim that […]
The melodies are INTRICATE on Either/Or, especially given the framework of just one singer/songwriter and his acoustic guitar and voice, soundtracking the entire album. Right there in the seemingly unassuming opener “Speed Trials,” for instance, we have this incredibly subtle, almost untraceable key change immersed in the chorus at an apparently random type (whereas Led […]
Spotify playlist. .
Spotify playlist.
ARE YOU GONNA LISTEN TO NIRVANA OR NOT? Ok, I guess it doesn’t matter THAT much, but for some reason it’s really pi**ing me off that this guy at work the other night put on Nirvana, their desultory, left-brain-compiled and thoroughly uninspiring “best-of” from 2002, notable perhaps solely for its inclusion of the excellent previously […]
In a way, Third Eye Blind never really went away: they’ve been offering quality albums at competitive pricings, every two years, for the last two decades and change. Well, that’s a fallacy. And the reason why that’s a fallacy can be synopsized in two words: Kevin Cadogan. Cadogan was the lead guitarist in the band, […]