Wednesday!
After the concert, I’m going through all of my shoegaze stuff and thinking “these guys are probably really loud in concert too.” So… what are you listening to?
music
Wednesday!
Slate recently wrote a story titled “In Defense of Rap Rock” that, for some reason, never mentioned Faith No More, or Korn, or Body Count, or The Beastie Boys. Sigh. Now, it’s certainly nowhere near my favorite genre of music but,… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
I’m on a techno kick. I’m keep saying “remember *THIS* album?” and remembering the track that blew my mind. I’m almost tempted to do a dump of five or six songs and that way I can get all of this… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
So… what are you listening to?
Mondegreen!
So I just realized that I’ve been utilizing one. I had always thought that Travis’s song “Re-Offender” was a lovely little self-indulgent song about a wronged lover. “You say you love me… do it again. Do it again. You say… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
For the most part, the songs I play on Wednesdays are songs that I’ve heard on the radio or on a CD rather than experiencing them for the first time via the medium of “music video”. This usually has me… Continue Reading
Titles!
Going through various albums and various ‘tubes trying to find inspiration for an essay or a Wednesday thread, I stumble across album titles and think that those might make for a good discussion thread in their own right. What is… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
While scrounging for songs that have as many descendants as “S/He Called Me Baby“, I keep stumbling across songs that have many, many covers but it seems that each of the covers is covering the original rather than covering covers… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
The Crash Test Dummies ought to be remembered for more than just that danged “Mmm mmm mmm mmm” song. The album Give Yourself a Hand was excellent and Songs of the Unforgiven was downright amazing… but everybody only remembers Mmm… Continue Reading
Wednesday!
So… what are you listening to? Here’s a song that is vaguely related to the book (it’s good, by the way).