While I fully concede that Either/Or is his absolute masterpiece, I still find myself coming back to this one a bit more over the years. Maybe cause it's got this on it, the greatest song ever about smoking meth and drinking malt liquor. Anyway, happy 30th to this legendary album.
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Well, I was just listening to The Damned Strawberries album getting prepped for the concert in Vancouver on Monday and they just cancelled. What a bummer. My son and I were super excited.
My podcast listen today was The Verve's bittersweet symphony. I didn't know that for more than 20 years, the official songwriters were Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, due to a sampling issue. ####ing mental.
Anyway, I went back and rediscovered this gem. I put this up against Death Cab for Cutie's "I will follow you into the dark" as the best macabre song ever.
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Okay, just a few years ago, Neko Case released an album full of gems. On this album, she partnered frequently with Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees fame (RIP Mark, you were amazing).
Here, we have a cover of a song by the little known band Crooked Fingers. It's so perfectly sweet yet intense at the same time, and a fitting song for the middle of summer. I love Mark's voice on this, as well as Neko's. It's absolutely worth your time.
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Excited for Geese's new album coming out this year. Also shoutout to Cameron Winter's solo album that came out in December that I still have on repeat.
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I feel like I fundamentally changed as a music listener the first time I heard this and the immortal words "too busy sucking on a ding dong" are uttered. What a thrilling song.
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is one of those bands that was too beautiful to live, too dangerous to die.
Here we have them playing one of their classic songs "Two Kinds of Love". They play it pretty straight for the first minute or so, and then Jon loses it, runs around the room grabbing microphones, pushes the videographer for no apparent reason, plays a theramin (expertly I might add, while summoning some sort of blues demon), assaults a stage hand for another microphone, assaults the host?, makes out with an audience member while shouting "The blues is #1!!!", makes DJ scratching noises with his theramin while pushing the cameraman again, yanks another microphone from a stage hand (honestly, they're just trying to keep up at this point), breaks and then reassembles his microphone only the way an experienced stage performer does, just in time to yell "The Blues Explosion!!!" into the mic, and after a brief roll call, does an almost televangelist performance with his theramin (and BTW, his band is ####ing rocking out the entire time this is happening), he then throws himself into an unwelcoming crowd that did NOT come here for this sort of show, proceeds back to the stage while making love to the camera, does a random pratfall for no reason WHATSOEVER..., climbs the counters, tries to tear down the big air inflated show sign, tears down his OWN band's sign, smashes his microphone, pushes the studio camera, and gives a big shout out to the crowd before wrapping up and taking a gentlemanly bow.
This is pure rock and roll. How I wish there was more of this around these days.
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I like when he sticks to praising good music instead of whining about modern pop. Yeah, a lot of it sucks but I don't want to hear an old man's opinion on it.
If you're going to complain about music do it with humour, like Pat Finnerty does.
Beato surprisingly appraises many pop songs favorably. I have seen him talk a lot about how most pop music is made - by a handful of songwriters and session musicians, with an attractive front person pasted on top.
Beato surprisingly appraises many pop songs favorably. I have seen him talk a lot about how most pop music is made - by a handful of songwriters and session musicians, with an attractive front person pasted on top.
Yeah, I guess I shouldn't talk. He does give credit when it's due, but I don't bother watching the "Why Music Sucks Today" videos. I really like when he focuses on an overlooked musician and gets technical about why they're a genius.
