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King Richard is definitely a little cheese, but not nearly as much cheese as I was expecting. I was pleasantly surprised by that movie.
Going to see The War on Drugs this Sunday. I am sooooo ready. Today has been an alternating of the new Animal Collective and Black Country, New Road. The latter may be my AOTY so far.
That guy from News Radio has a podcast?
Best RHCP song by a huge margin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zGk0k34tGs
Wasn't Flea in a side project with Thom Yorke?
This has made me retroactively like the fist album much more. My four-year-old has been going around singing Snow Globes all morning.
He should maybe go ahead and say why he actually pulled out if he’s tired of all the speculation. Stop being that girl who posts vague things on Facebook so everyone will ask her what’s wrong, Wale.
My daughter (10) is a little burgeoning hipster. She went on a rant to me the other day about how she can't stand this song and doesn't understand why everyone is going nuts over it. "It's fine, but everyone is acting like it's some great song." was her exact quote.
Lol. I came here to make a comment about how it's cool that they found a rare photo of bloc for the album cover.
Ah, man. This had me the second the saxophone came in.
A couple years ago at their Solid Sound fest, Wilco did an all-covers set. I'm pretty sure they did Cut Your Hair, so they've got some experience playing it.
I think I'd rather see a Kanye documentary by Kanye than an "objective" one. We all keep up with music news. We've seen what he's been up to. It's not like he's a very private guy. Let me see what he thinks of himself unfiltered. I don't know. I just think that's way more interesting than a typical doc. It's like how "I'm Not There" is a way more interesting telling of Dylan's story than a straight-up "Walk the Line"-style movie.
One of the things this column has done for me is to put songs from my childhood/adolescence in the proper timeframe. In my head, Kris Kross and Nirvana were years apart, not happening at nearly the same time. I would've thought Like a Prayer and Erotica were like a decade apart from each other, not consecutive albums.
Mortuary? Morrisey. Though, I’m sure there’s a metal band called Mortuary and they’ve probably been to an Arbys at some point.
Mortuary at Arbys. Meatloaf at an Autozone. What other celebs have you met at random chain stores?
To be fair, though, Gen X does keep recycling our stuff for our kids. It's not ideal, but I have been having a blast playing He Man with my son.
I think you’re a few years off there.
Call me old-fashioned, but I just like my tokens fungible.
I got annoyed with Ed on social media. First off, I understand that a person's life as presented on Instagram may not match up with real life. He did a lot of complaining about how much money he wasn't making off music while, at the same time, posting pics from these amazing-looking (and I'm sure not-too-cheap) trips to beautiful locations. I don't fault him for feeling the way he did/does at all. It's just here I am working my little job to scrape by and maybe get to take a little vacation every year, and I'm seeing this dude complain about not getting paid enough to put out an album every five years and not really tour all that much (this was pre-pandemic) all while he's on a beach in some amazing locale.
I didn't mean that they'll be angry about the selections themselves (they still will, though). I meant that Kendrick will probably do something "too black" and they'll get all "WHY DO I HAVE TO SEE THIS!!?!?! I JUST WANT TO WATCH FOOTBALL! WHY'D THEY HAVE TO MAKE IT POLITICAL??!?!?"
Oh, man. There's gonna be a lot of angry aunts and uncles on facebook after this halftime show.
I was thinking I was a little lukewarm to the new stuff, but then I listened again yesterday to all of the singles so far and BOOM, it clicked. I'm now very excited for this album.
He's also on Big Mouth, a show with many talking penises (peni?), and somehow I don't believe he has voiced one. Hugh Jackman, however, HAS voiced one on that show.
Right. I mean, if I was casting the voice of a penis, Mantzoukas would be my first call.
I kept wondering why this band name sounded familiar to me. It's because Andy Williams is also known as "The Butcher", one half of pro wrestling tag team The Butcher and the Blade. He's getting to be a pretty awesome big man. I guess he's at least got that to fall back on.
I haven't listened to this yet, but in my head I'm already singing it to the tune of "Life is a Highway".
He feels safest of all.
Sometimes you want to sit around and be sad, but sometimes you want to sit around and be sad while standing up to flip a record over every 22 minutes or so.
Damn. I really like this. There's something more melodic (maybe?) that's been missing from a lot of Pearl Jam stuff in the last few albums that's here in these singles.
Sometimes I think calling an artist "consistent" can almost be seen as a knock on them. Spoon overcomes that by having their baseline be really fucking high, so consistent is quite the compliment. Same goes for Destroyer, IMO. And Beach House, also IMO.
Oh, man! Thanks for mentioning Cincinnati! Somehow, I'd missed that they were coming to Newport. We didn't think they were coming anywhere close enough to Louisville that we'd get to see them this year. I just ordered tickets.
My whole family are WOD fans. My 4-year-old son loves them. When they have music time at his daycare, he asked them to play "War on Drungs band". He couldn't believe they didn't know what he was talking about.