I was reading Chuck’s blog (Would you like a policeman with your chalupa, sir?: February 22, 2005, 10:41) and it forced me to do something that I never like to do: consider that disco might not really suck. Intellectually, I know that all of Chuck’s points are valid, that disco is really influential and that disco as I know it… Read more »
Okay, I listened to Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. I was under the impression that this was Oberst’s stab at electronica, but I was wrong. Yeah, there are a lot of electronic elements (drum machines, etc), but Digital Ash is closer to I’m Wide Awake or Lifted than it is to electronica. It lacks the subtle layering that makes… Read more »
There’s a lot of hype surrounding the new dual-release from Bright Eyes and some of it is well-deserved. I bought both, but so far I’ve only listened to I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning. If writing songs that are strong enough and emotional and poetic enough to get away with not being able to sing is the mark of the next… Read more »
Here’s something I wrote for my wife when she was fighting off some idiotic Stones lovers at work a year or so ago. I said in my “Satisfaction” post that I’d address why I don’t think the Stones are all that, so I thought rather than rewrite it, I’d just steal old material from myself. Ask yourself this question: If… Read more »
Each year (this year and last year anyway), I make a comp CD of the best stuff I heard that year that most people probably didn’t. I pass it around to a few friends and that sort of thing. Anyway, here’s the 2004 list. Maybe I’ll post the 2003 list another time. By the way, this is stuff I heard… Read more »
I suppose it’s odd that my first post should be about a song that I’ve put significant effort into slamming over the years, but it’s what’s on my mind now, so it’s what I’m gonna write about. I’ve never bought into the idea of the Stones’ “Satisfaction” being a really great song (much like I don’t buy into the Stones… Read more »