The history of pop music is littered with artists that came on strong before a seemingly endless long, slow fade. But the case of Oasis is unique. Every album comes with the promise that THIS IS THE ALBUM where they ...Read More
Van Morrison.
It's complicated.
Not least because he used to look like Charles Manson and now he looks like my grandfather. If he wanted to, could Van Morrison have a man killed? I bet he could. Then again, would he ...Read More
This is the best news I've had in I don't know how long: Bernard Sumner's got a new record coming out. Seeing as Barney's apparently turning into Horatio Crane, Bad Lieutenant seems like an apt name for the band.
Really, I ...Read More
So, we've got the eternally-ridiculous Stephan Jenkins, valedictorian of his class at UC-Berkeley (an English Major, no less!), writing "Slow Motion," a song with this kind of subject matter. The working title of this song included the parenthetical "In the ...Read More
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I'm not going to chime in with an opinion about yesteday's Manny Ramirez steroids bombshell. I mean, my feeling about his guilt or innocence is pretty close to Tom Verducci's, and my feelings ...Read More
The titles of the last three U2 albums seem like rejected titles for James Bond movies to me:
All That You Can't Leave Behind
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
No Line On The Horizon
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From the Wikipedia Article: "I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)" is a single recorded by The Temptations and released on Motown Records' Gordy label during the spring of 1968 (see 1968 in music). The single is notable as ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_323" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Brandon Flowers"][/caption]It seems that everyone has just decided to pretend that the Killers' new single never happened. The song is pretty good for what it is, but I think that this might be for the ...Read More
Let's say you have a friend. We'll call him "Billy." And then, let's say he has this girlfriend who's gorgeous and interesting, and isn't really quite like any other girl you've ever met. Except she's this horrible bitchy wet blanket ...Read More
When the Cure's previous studio album came out in 2004, I cringed in horror at what unlistenable dreck it was. And, with four years of perspective on it, I need to revise my opinion. It's not as bad as I ...Read More