Category: music
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2011 Favorite Albums / 13. Patrick Stump, Soul Punk
Patrick Stump, Soul PunkMusic Math: (Fall Out Boy – everyone except Patrick Stump) x Prince Best Tracks: “This City,” “Spotlight (New Regrets), Run Dry (X Heart X Fingers),” “Everybody Wants Somebody” Representative Lyrics: “Step 1: Drink / Step 2: Make mistakes / Step 3: Pretend you don’t remember / Step 4: Drink a little more […]
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2011 Favorite Albums / 14. The Civil Wars, Barton Hollow
The Civil Wars, Barton HollowMusic Math: (Peter Paul & Mary – Peter) + Ulysses S. Grant / Hell on Wheels Best Tracks: “20 Years,” “I’ve Got this Friend,” “Barton Hollow” Representative Lyrics: “I’m a dead man walking here / That’s the least of all my fears / Walk beneath the water” Notes: Charmingly anachronistic duo […]
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2011 Favorite Albums / 15. Peter Bjorn and John, Gimme Some
Peter Bjorn and John, Gimme SomeMusic Math: (The Hives – Green Day) + The Cars + Wakko from Animaniacs Best Tracks: “Dig a Little Deeper,” “Second Chance” (awesome video above) Representative Lyrics: “When you flew out of the nest / you made a mistake / flew all the way back” Notes: In their effort to […]
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2011 Favorite Albums!!
This year, instead of ganging up my favorite albums post into one loooong post, I’m going to unroll it one day at a time. I winnowed the list down to just 15 albums (which was tough), so starting on 12/16, there’ll be a daily post featuring one of the albums and my take on it.
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Epilogue: Ruby Classen on the Refound Joy of the Vinyl Record
Oh, Vinyl – Where are thou gone? I admit it–I’m a closet vinyl lover! Not the kinky kind–we’re not talking zip up suits and strange masks–I mean honest-to-goodness 33 1/3 vinyl record albums. I grew up in the 70s and my parents had the classic record player console complete with mini bar. I would spend […]
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Charles Jensen on Tori Amos’s Scarlet’s Walk
This story begins and ends with heavy petting. The author opted to start this way because recent studies show a majority of Americans enjoy thinking about heavy petting as much as they enjoy heavy petting itself. While the petting was indeed heavy in the first instance, the petting that begins this author’s story, it was […]
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