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Can you imagine being 16 years old and having
a. this voice
b. the taste level and guts to cover one of the Mats' best songs and
c. the understanding and empathy to read this as it should be ("swingin' party" is people dangling from nooses not swingers; Mats singer Paul Westerberg once said in an interview that the reason the band drank so much is that it's "scary going up on stage" so clearly the boys were battling their inner selves and Lorde does this self-doubt an incredible service here).
Epic. One of my favorite covers.
May 14, 2024
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Sitting legs crossed on the train, suggesting that you revisit Lorde's third studio album. I do not find myself in total stan alignment with a particular pop diva, but i have always felt drawn to Lorde. Her first two albums were devastating and functioned as backdrops to late highschool / early college coming of age but, like many, I felt her third album flopped- too many ballads, not enough percussion, fatigue around Jack Antonoff. So imagine last week when my hometown bestie / prom date Amber told me that shes been painting again and her creative sauce is weed and Lorde's discography. Three revisits later and Amber is so correct, the Solar Power album played in full will deliver you to artistic flow state. It is slower, lower key, and there is much less blowing shit up with homemade dynamite but miss girl did not miss, she is simply growing up.
Mar 13, 2024
Paramore and Lorde have both covered songs by Talking Heads as a tribute album… it is amazing and they do such a good job.
Apr 18, 2024
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people are haters on the cover, but I think Lana's voice suits it so well it is so romantic sounding
Apr 16, 2024
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Hey tyler hopefully this doesn’t violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I can’t wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! ❤️
Mar 27, 2024
“Songs Of a Lost World” coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 🖤
The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for
Sep 14, 2024
I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s.
So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it:
“Unwound is the best band of the ’90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesn’t say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasn’t stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the ’90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.”
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really can’t say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. 🖤
Mar 23, 2024