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“Confusion in my soul?” Soooooo, when Chan booked the show, she just kinda assumed that Israel and Palestine would be living in peace by now? OK, so either she’s drastically under-informed about the world, or she’s anti-Israel, or she only booked this show in order to cancel it and get free publicity. Which would not hurt her these days, if you know what I’m saying.
She’s not accomplishing anything by cancelling. She should do the show (spreading some tix around to the various factions) and take some time to learn about the complicated ISR-PAL situation before saying “screw you ” to her fans. That might cure the “sickness of her spirit.”
So sex and drugs and rock and roll DIDN’T make this family happy? We’re going to have to edit the manual…
1) K-pop shiny happening NOW!
2) Glitter GO! happy time!
3) Fun music lucky sunshine!
This song is clearly the primary cause of global warming.
What they need in that band is more girls.
Sorry. Mistake post there. Obviously.
Well, who am I to quibble with Brian Williams’ taste in music? He wrote Pet Sounds and SMiLE and I’m just a … huh…what now? He didn’t? Then who… a news guy? Really. Hmmm.
Wonder what Ted Koppel thinks of her.
Oberhofer seems destined to appear on every soundtrack of every movie starring either Ellen Page or Jesse Eisenberg/Michael Cera for the next three years.
Their songs will be better than the films.
While they’re at it, they could endorse Desperate Housewives and The Playboy Club.
Less Than Zero, not Watching the Detectives. But you knew that already.
I thought it was great — kind of a alternative-rock in-joke. If someone didn’t get it, I hope they Googled it to find the original Costello “Radio Radio” clip. I was hoping St. V might complete the reverse-homage by going into Watching The Detectives (the song EC actually halted and switched with Radio Radio), but no such luck.
No, it’s Cloud Control, silly!
I got a lot of inquiries about “Oo0Oo0OoO0o0Oo0″ when it was my ringtone last year. Oberhofer debut album? CAN’T WAIT!
But you forget, a 16-yr-old Prince R. Nelson put out a naively funk-ish EP in 1974 called “Never Gonna Change My Name (To a Symbol)”. Besides title song, it included singles “Can’t Wait Til I Can Dunk” and “Assless Pants”. P4K gave it a 91.
So Purple Rain qualifies, is what I’m getting at.
Thought for sure I had a few, but Elvis Costello’s “King of America”, Ministry’s “Psalm 69″, and Depeche Mode “Violator” are both 9th-year records.
“Frank Black and the Catholics” was 10 years after “Surfer Rosa,” for what it’s worth.
I say those songs are “certainly better,” but I shouldn’t. It’s all opinion, of course.
See, there’s an art to being an Indie-Blog List Author. You have to be “inclusive” enough to rate catchy pop songs that were popular during the year, UNLESS those songs were by indie-ish bands. Because then, they were uncool “sell-out” songs, see?
So, some of the most popular songs of this year (Pumped Up Kicks, Lost In My Mind) are ignored and mediocre RnB and very bad hip-hop songs take their place.
Similarly, here are some relatively popular “indie” songs (XM-rotation kind of stuff) that were certainly better than Beyonce, Kreayshawn, and Kelly Rowland:
Strokes “Under Cover”
Vaccines “If You Wanna”
Lykke Li “Get Some”
Generationals “Greenleaf”
Tapes n Tapes “Badaboom”
Smith Westerns “Weekend”
Decemberists “Down By The Water”
Elbow “Open Arms”
It’s catchy in a Superchunk-copy kind of way, but it’s hard to be catchier than “Didn’t You.” I’ve been humming that one for a year and a half.
And what? No Beyonce?
Their reviewers don’t feel the need to appear inclusive, I guess. Though we did just get in the obligatory “Kanye” in the last slot. It’s like clockwork, that one.
RIP to a local boy done good. He and Harry Morgan today. Who will complete the trifecta? I’m betting on Alec Baldwin.
Time to roll out my General Theory of “Top Album” Lists. Written in 2007, I’m always amazed at how prescient it is.
#1 Shocking selection of an unexpected record that will get people to comment on my site
#2 More mainstream indie record that was a bit better than #1 if I’m honest
#3 Big-name Indie veterans who released their best record three years ago
#4 New band that was hyped during the spring/summer
#5 Top-selling Hip-hop record to show my inclusiveness
#6 Record from a girl singer to show my inclusiveness
#7 Best record of the year, but it came out in April, so it’s not hot anymore
#8 Second-best record of the year, but it came out in January and leaked in November of last year
#9 Comeback album from a band you thought broke up six years ago
#10 Kanye West
Oh, yeah, and Los Campesinos! might have made the best record of the year, but I say that every year.
It’s a nice list. Everyone will have something to like (Austra, Yuck, and M83 back-to-back-to-back) and not like (Beyonce?). For me, the Vaccines would richly deserve to be on any top 50, as would Generationals, Anna Calvi, Cults, Lykki Li, Battles, Joy Formidable, the Wombats, Civil Wars, and Wye Oak.
Seen him 15 or so times and never paid more than $50, I think.
“…Either a misprint or a satire” — Elvis, you…are…legend.
Between the recent Courtney Love/ Frances Bean thread and Whitney Houston dying, I can see that some people are working overtime to give Taking Loads And Loads Of Drugs a bad name.