May 2012
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Hit Compilations By College Rockers, pt 5
Killing Joke, Laugh? I Nearly Bought One This is about as old a comp as I’ll consider for this venture, but I don’t believe this 1992 disc has the subcultural cachet of something like Standing On The Beach or Once Upon A Time - The Singles, so I’ll give it a shout-out. While I wish it had something from Fire Dances, it has the crucial B-side “Pssyche” (albeit live),...
Hit Compilations By College Rockers, pt 4
Drive-By Truckers, Greatest Hits 1998-2009 Since these kings of modern roots-rock consistently release 2LPs (if not 2CDs) that would be classic 1LPs, they’re pretty deserving of a 1 disc sampler even if you could fill 2 with gems. This one starts chronologically but gets fuzzier as they enter the Isbell years, not that you’d notice if you didn’t know. This may be their most...
Hit Compilations By College Rockers, pt 3
Bauhaus, Crackle - The Best Of Bauhaus Birthday Party, Hits Red House Painters, Retrospective I found it worth digging through the full discographies of these moody young men for my own mixes, but 4AD/Beggars done an exceptional job of making listenable, satisfying highlight reels. I used to own two of these. In a CD-R less world, I’d own them all. Recommended if you think you’d like...
Hit Compilations By College Rockers, pt 2
More notes on the alternative hit comps I’ve perused via stream while studying for my finals, just to prove I can still listicle. And while I may make more personal “best of”s as I grow old and square, you may still be dependent on the industry to do it for you. In descending order of recommendation.
Minutemen, Introducing The Minutemen That it does! Shares plenty with my...
Hit Compilations By College Rockers, pt 1
Though I’m currently abstaining from a hallowed career in entertainment writing to acquire an MBA, my brain is demanding I write a listicle (a LISTICLE!) while I study for finals. Last semester, I tweeted my immediate thoughts on Pitchfork’s Best Albums of 2011 (and wrote this alienated, whimsical broadside) from a study carrel in the library. This time, I’ll be dumping my...
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How I Can Best Explain Why I Will Continue To...
You’re looking out a window on the third floor, when you notice that a double-parked car begins to slowly, so sloooowwwly, roll forward on the traffic-free street. The road’s decline is very slight, so the car is not really picking up speed. You keep it waiting for it to bump against something and stop, but instead it just scrapes its driver-side window against parked cars and slightly...
Introducing yourself to your 401 class when you're...
whatshouldwecallucb:
And when you’re taking your fourth…
“Our contestants will drop out of my nose, and blurp into a tub of refried beans....”
– Krusty
“We’ve already been forever damned.”
– Lyric from a Top 10 Gin Blossoms single I never caught until this day in 2012
“Life in the Sea Found Its Fate In a Paroxysm Of Extinction”
– Science Times section headline or Bad Religion lyric?
Full Disclsoure: I had to look up the definition of “paroxysm.”
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