“Dolby’s Hot 100 — ’90s Albums (Spring 2024)”
1 Big L – Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous 2 Radiohead – OK Computer 3 PJ Harvey – Is This Desire? 4 TOOL – Aenima 5 Massive Attack – Mezzanine 6 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony – E. 1999 Eternal 7 Bjork – Post 8 The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream 9 Eminem – Slim Shady LP … Read more“Dolby’s Hot 100 — ’90s Albums (Spring 2024)”
“Led Zeppelin’s ‘Four Sticks’ as Recorded Proof That Rock Songs Shouldn’t Be ‘about’ Anything”
To be honest, I haven’t really looked at pitchfork.com in a while, finding a slight problem, mind you, with their tautologically identical paragraph lengths, for one thing. It’s like, really, Pitchfork, all your paragraphs are the exact same length, and stuff? I mean, it doesn’t matter, I guess. Sometimes all the paragraphs on your entire … Read more“Led Zeppelin’s ‘Four Sticks’ as Recorded Proof That Rock Songs Shouldn’t Be ‘about’ Anything”
“An Old Curmudgeon Pontificating on Where Taylor Swift Would Stack up in the ’90s in Terms of Popularity”
Now, believe me, it was never my intention to write a post about Taylor Swift. I did muster out one default-love-poem to her circa 2015, during an unusually horny phase of mine, kind of as a way of positing myself as a found art object for whom all the meaning in life has gone. I … Read more“An Old Curmudgeon Pontificating on Where Taylor Swift Would Stack up in the ’90s in Terms of Popularity”
“If You Get a Song by The Sundays in Your Head, You’re Probably Doing Alright”
About 80 miles or so west of London, sitting within England roughly where LA would be in relation to America, there lies, the water-flanked town of Bristol, which begat The Sundays in the late ’80s. They’re a band with a kind of an occult following, but for anyone unfamiliar, it’s like if Mazzy Star were … Read more“If You Get a Song by The Sundays in Your Head, You’re Probably Doing Alright”
“An Ironic Pontification on How Bone Stumbled upon the True Essence of Life with ‘The Crossroads’”
At this point, obviously, nobody’s going to argue the greatness of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Cleveland’s proudest sing/song hip-hop group and overall purveyors of blistering, blissed-out and stoned-out “cool.” The “1st of tha Month” anthem is a routine denizen on social media, and, in general, if the group isn’t known as one of the weed-smokin’-est crews in … Read more“An Ironic Pontification on How Bone Stumbled upon the True Essence of Life with ‘The Crossroads’”
“Steve Albini ‘King of All Engineers’? Not So Fast”
I’m writing this in repsonse to a headline I just saw on Bandcamp relating to the recently deceased rock musician/producer Steve Albini [1]. Now, of course, I realize it’s bad form to be critical of the dearly departed. Part of my issue, anyway, as it were, has to do with our annoying habit of speaking … Read more“Steve Albini ‘King of All Engineers’? Not So Fast”
“Conceiving of a Postmodernist Element in Music with the Help of Music Videos: Cat Power and Liars”
* Warning: one of the music videos mentioned in this post contains graphic, even terrifying content of violence, homicide and extreme human malevolence. .. I thought postmodernism, to be honest, was a hoax, for a while, finally seeing the light as likening it to the nightly news and the stories “Six Crushed under Bus in … Read more“Conceiving of a Postmodernist Element in Music with the Help of Music Videos: Cat Power and Liars”