Tag: throwback
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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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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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Left Ogres: Anatomy of a Shrek Song
An Expedition Through the Cultural Swamp in Search of Happily Ever After Cinematic Swamp Sounds This shouldn’t surprise you, but Shrek, based on the 1990 children’s book by William Steig, is the second highest grossing animated film franchise of all time. From the movies themselves, to the decades-long avalanche of schlocky merchandise, to its horrendous…
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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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“If I Am A Dog, The Party Is On”
Revisiting Baha Men’s Who Let The Dogs Out Recently I’ve been all about the “Dollar CDs” shoebox at a certain record store in Monterey. Maybe someday I’ll buy an actual record from those guys. But in the meantime, here’s a score from said shoebox: Surprise—it’s Baha Men, the holy prophets of the 2001 Grammy Awards…
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