Tag: pop
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Spittoon Scrap Tune Wrap
The songs I spun voraciously in 2024—Now featuring more new stuff than before!
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SONIC-ATOMIC SIDEREAL SONG BOMB
OK. This is it. You fucked up in 2022 and didn’t finish the annual listening retrospective…
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American Downfall Annual Sounds Haul: 2022 in Tunes, PART ONE
Introduction OK—end of the year, time to account for the last twelve months of spins. And since I recently spent a few months “between jobs,” and consequently am still on the Lyndon Johnson lunchtime diet (depicted below), I’m gonna try to keep it short this time. We’ll see how that turns out. Still, it shouldn’t…
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SNOT ROCK CD Selections 001: Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True
I’m starting this CD reviews series with a personal favorite: My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello’s 1977 full-length—the album where Declan Patrick MacManus conclusively proved that mixing jittery nerd-rock, cynical lit-pop, semi-goofy vintage posturing, and biting, self-aware toxicity makes for a pretty solid angst-pop cocktail. I first heard Costello in high school. It was a…
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On Compact Discs
My CD player isn’t really supposed to be a CD player. It’s a Sony SLV-D370P, a CD/DVD/VCR combo platter from the mid-2000s. Back then, it must have been a versatile, exciting piece of machinery. But in 2022, I found it in my parents’ garage, pretty dirty but fully functional. Mom and Dad are firmly on…
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18 August Adds
It’s mid-August, and I’m back with another unsolicited listening report. All of these songs are highlights from my annual, evolving mega-playlist. No genre constraints, no “newness” mandate, no rankings, no funny business. It’s just the shit I like right now. But because I have no self-discipline, it’s only August, and it’s already a nine-hour mess.…
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22 June Tunes
It’s mid-June, and I’m back with a mid-year listening report. All of these songs are highlights from my annual, evolving mega-playlist. No genre constraints, no “newness” mandate, no rankings, no funny business. It’s just the shit I like, in chronological addition date order. But because I have no self-discipline, it’s only June, and it’s already…
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She Bought It
Why I love Survivor (Destiny’s Child, 2001) What happens when you take the classic “dramatic musical girl group” concept, isolate its very essence, supersaturate the batter with Chemical X, and turn every knob on the machine up to maximum? Does it spiral hopelessly out of control, or does it manage to produce a musical Powerpuff…
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“It’s 2003, And Where Do You Wanna Be?”
Revisiting Smash Mouth’s Get The Picture? OK. I found this CD at the bottom of a drawer in my childhood bedroom on a visit to my parents’ house one weekend. You have to understand, I listened to this album a lot when it dropped. I was in second or third grade, and I was at…
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