'Life of the Party'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Damn, Corwood, that's a kickass issue of High Hat.
Gonna concur with Hec here. I've just started in on it and am enjoying it immensely. Love your bit on the Rolling Stone Record Guide. I always wanted to slap Marsh around for some of his reviews (His takes on Lou Reed, X and Steely Dan's weird mid-period were astoundingly wrong-headed, and he definitely displayed a huge US-centricism wrt rock music - or perhaps it was more a pronounced Anglo-phobia post-invasion).
Thanks! I was trying to be fair to the guy, but his bozo-osity won in the end.
Voice music review (of Pink) quote of the day:
This sense of all-too-human auto-bumfuzzlement is emboldened by Not Dead Yet's stunningly ass-backward theory of how to make a viable pop album in our unfortunate millennium, a stylistic dyslexia so grandiose it explodes traditional conceptions of "quality" altogether.
Speaking of "stylistic dyslexia...."
Also? "explodes traditional conceptions" is a total wank cliche.
It's all an elaborate joke, right? Unfortunate millennium (what?) bomfuzzlement (what?!) and finally, "explod[ing] traditional conceptions" doesn't bother me so much as exploding traditional conceptions of quality (WHAT?!).
Yeah. That sounds like a conscious attempt at parody, there.
doesn't bother me so much as exploding traditional conceptions of quality (WHAT?!).
Translation: This record is so interesting, yet incoherent, that whether it's "good" or not is irrelevent.
Jon, I finally remembered to search for you on lala and I added you as a friend.
Thanks Msbelle. I haven't traded anything yet, but I'm poking around.
Just received word from a reliable source that Grant McLennan of the Go-Betweens died in his sleep today. The source is second or third hand, so I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything more direct.
Damn.