December 2011
15 posts
frankhejl:
Brian Eno - Baby’s On Fire
It is my...
Critic-Approved Archetypes It Takes Effort For Me...
Post-hardcore E Street Bands.
Female vocalists who sound like they’re auditioning for a Bond theme until they either swear or reference modern conveniences.
Theoretical dance-pop vocalists who apparently abstain from not just auto-tune, but second takes.
Rappers who drop hate speech before I’ve become hooked to their flow, or the beat they’re rapping over.
Bands that force...
My Belated Two Cents On "Call Your Girlfriend"
Came across the Singles Jukebox thread on this enduring number while in a post-Taran Killam ponder, and was amazed how many different emotions and scenarios people pull out of the song. How I hear it: a woman in the early stages of love with a spoken-for guy, soberly - but excitedly - walking through the cliches that have to be expressed before they can get on with their business. She’s...
It's Pitchfork "Top 100 Tracks" Day!
The outcome is usually me listening to a ton by a Christmas tree, thinking about how What The College Kids Like has every right to be as baffling as What The Teenagers Like, and how these fools are listening to fools who sound like fools from about 20 years ago, but in an earlier time, my insufferable archetype had to go out and BUY crit-picks for the experience, and probably got a lot angrier....
“I thought it went into areas where a biographer has no business going, which is...”
– Greil Marcus on the new Pauline Kael bio by Brian Kellow. I’m still appreciating the biographical data (there is some!), but I knew the road was getting rougher when I got to this, re: The Way We Were, which I have not seen: “In the end, Pauline seriously overestimated Streisand’s...
“Saturday afternoons won’t be the same for games
I just found out what...”
– The DeFranco Family Featuring Tony DeFranco, “Love Is Bigger Than Baseball”
