Marathon – Doomtree – Good last track, it has that fare thee well feel to it, a trebly introduction, dream world, something in a dream world and yet away from everything, “i’m tearing down all these outmoded ideas about how it’s going” they claim… – B+
This song echoes down modern hip hop, it is almost as important as RZA’s backing tracks on Enter and when you listen to M.I.A., those clipped off beats were born here. Plus “beep, who’s got the keys to the jeep’ is iconic – A+
The difference between great spectacle and great art is one thrills the eyes and the other thrills the mind and while Katy Perry did neither during the half time Super Bowl show on Sunday night, still, she wasn’t a complete putz either.
As Tillman surprisingly starts singing Celine Dion’s ‘That’s The Way It Is’ , the one that comes with the line ‘Love comes to those who believe it’, he declares ‘That’s one of the most fucked-up messages I received as a kid. If you’re not loved, it’s because you don’t ‘believe’ enough
Two weeks after the release of ‘What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World’, Starbucks is offering a song from The Decemberists’ latest album.
John Mayer is guest hosting the Late Late Show and I have high as the sky hopes for him myself, not only will be guest post-Super Bowl, currently sweetheart, young Katy Perry but also el weirdo del weirdo Bob weir(d), Ed Sheeran, Only three days(Sean Hayes is doing the first day) but enough to give him the Talk Show Guest Of The Week Award. Some have died for less.
Now is the winter of our discontent and thanks to the overreaction of Bill De Blasio and Andrew Cuomo the entire world was brought to a tremendous standstill and there is nothing we could do again. For the first time ever the subway system was stopped, and for no reason but the preening egotism of a handful of halfwits.
Sure I love that Meghan is in at # 1 and all is right on earth, good will to all doo wop songs but while I’ve only heard a coupla tracks off the Madchester stalwarts, still reeling from the death of their drummer a coupla years ago, this is as good as Brit rock gets and while I doubt it will do much Stateside, it sure should.”Come Home Baby” is knockout.
They have a nice line of patter on Karen Harding: the Whitney Houston of House, and while that might well be oversell, this is a goodie, the beats thump and Karen has a powerful and beautiful voice. This should break US, no reason not to , except for its purity as form, which might not matter, right?
o say they don’t make songs like this first recording by the fantastic early punk all girl band the slits is not to say they really should do. It makes you miss Ari Upp all the more and reading Viv Albertine’s autobiography, it is amazing how hard they had to fight with men in the industry to get heard the way she wanted to be heard. Not John Peel, the engineers – A
We wrote so damn much about this travesty it was ridiculous, we wrote and warned before, during and after the disgraceful “Hope For Haiti” concert that this was no way to run a charity. They could have gone to “Save The Children” or “Christian Children’s Fund” or even “UNICEF” and had professionals handle the situation but did they? That was a rhetorical question.
Written eight years ago, Black Messiah would’ve been everything people say it is if the rest of the album was as great as “Really Love” and with D’Angelo’s gorgeous falsetto and a Spanish groove r&b love song of the first order at his disposal, the r&b man got all of it. A superb first vision of the post-Black Messiah star, apparently the Sly Stone comparisons are gonna have to wait some
White keeps on claiming a luddite’s worship of the analog but really he just swaps one set of tools for another. He is a complete 21st century weirdo. A creeped out. cold as ice, asshole. How can’t you love a show like that?
I miss Chavo Guerrero and I miss being fed justice (fabricated or anticipated) on a weekly basis. Yet, as the song concludes, “It’s real sweet to grow old.” Might as well enjoy the ride, there’s no good alternative
The entire show is so good natured it feels like he could say anything and get away with it although he doesn’t and there is a lack of aggressiveness about Oliver, he seems to have neither US textual rage nor UK subtextual rage. He doesn’t seethe underneath it al
‘The revival we see today is a choice, largely based on the sentimental feelings that we tend to attach to music,’ writes advisor to the European Commission on ICT Matthew Finnie, in Wired. ‘Yes, I miss the artwork, the feel and smell, but do I miss the general faff? Not really
D’Angelo’s first post- Black Messiah concert, and at the legendary Apollo, is the event of the winter season. Pound for pound, the greatest r&b singer of his generation, D’Angelo ended fourteen years of self-imposed silence with the difficult, universally acclaimed (almost, I was less keen) Black Messiah and here we get to see it live on stage
This article on Yahoo by David Pogue basically says that the Pono Player recently launched by Neil Young is not really worth it. I have never tried it so
It would probably Bob Dylan’s to lose in the best of weeks, but the two songs I’ve heard are terrific, the reviews are insane, the Diana Krall album is a disaster, Kid Ink is not a fave of mine and nether is Butch Waker, and anyway it is Bob Dylan, right?
Yes, I am sick of the Great American Songbook, there is nothing left to them; younger people should embrace it because I’ve heard it too often and can’t any more. With exceptions and anything Ella sings is an exception by definition. Creamy, gorgeous voice caresses every inch of the lyric with both innocence and also with sophistication. Incomparable genius – A+
Many people have for example noticed the similarities between the Jayhawks’ ‘Waiting For The Sun’ and Tom Petty’s ‘Mary Jane’s Last Dance’…. And knowing that the Jayhawks song was first and that the band opened for Petty at the time…The Jayhawks never said anything to my knowledge
This is part of the Rosanne cash Perspective series and it is his country swing out The Time Jumpers, who re fine, but they aren’t what I want plus, inanely I might add, it is a late night show. Who wants a late night at Carnegie Hall? Will I go? Even after the Alan Jackson snoozer (here)?
17 albums isn’t bad for January, last year there where only 13 albums on my best of list at this point. Also, the rate of excellence is through the roof. Especially hip hop where from Lupe Fiasco to Joey BadA$$ and beyond it is on. Top of the heep i a huge album by David Bronson. A deal changer.
People don’t drop her name often enough but something about the clink clank mied with the heaviest of beats (not dub step, trip hop) reminds me of Portishead meets M.I.A. I really like FKA twigs, she isn’t like most people
For a live album, Sno-Mule feels a little aimless, it doesn’t really build though the last composition feels like a last composition, it feels as though this evening the only place left for them might be “Mountain Jam”. But nothing quite builds momentum
I hope to be a little more discriminating in 2015, and weeded this list down from 60 songs. I also want to be more careful, my consumer bound. I plan three lists. One, best songs of the year, two best songs of the month and three very best songs of the year. Say the top thirty or so. The deside is not to have the unwieldy lists of last to as much a dregree as possible. This is (more or less) in order but my Top 20 is in definitive order
Really Love – D’Angelo – As anticipation mounts for D’Angelo at the Apollo a week today, this is samba track is about as mainstream, as D gets nowadays and it is really pretty good, maybe as close to a complete song as we are ever gonna get. Definitely a pleaser, a soft clicking shuffle with, can it be? a melody – B+
And here it is. With the technical magic of Pablo Calvo and the patience of Iman Lababedi (errr…) we unveil a bolder sassier look and features that can get you results faster than a latte’ at Starbucks.
In an attempt to dominate the entire world, Taylor Swift has started to trademark unoriginal groups of words of the English language that she probably thinks she invented,… phrases like ‘This Sick Beat’ ‘Party Like it’s 1989’, ‘Nice to meet you, where you been?’, ‘Could show you incredible things’, ‘Cause we never go out of style’…
I really wanted to just get it out of the way, over and done with it. My gut reaction was immediately like that. It was an immediate album, and I did it so quickly, and it was like ‘Oh, it’s leaked, let’s just put it out.’
I wouldn’t have bothered a full review at all but… when punk happened in 1976 it was God and the rest of pop was Sodom And Gomorrah and everything it wiped out is on this this album only much, much worse than you remember it.
Perhaps it’s the aging punk in me but there is something so overwhelmingly pseud about these guys that I just can’t take em at any price whatsoever. Or maybe it’s Geddy Lee’s voice. Or those terrible histrionic guitar solos… I guess “Tom Sawyer” isn’t completely terrible, right?
This is shaping up into the best January this decade. Both FOB songs are masterful, Imagine Dragons released the only song they’ve ever written I’ve ever enjoyed, AWOLNATION is a revelation and Prass is a complete shocker. As for Bettye, well, listen to it yourself. And Kate Tempest is better than all of them.
First the Grammys were cool, then they missed the bus on rock and roll and missed it again with the British invasion, and then, sometime in the 1990s, about the time Dylan received the lifetime achievement award, they got cool, up till the moment they realized duets would give them cachet and now…
It is great entertainment and the sheer wealth of glittering pop rock is a thrill in itself. The setlist is a joy and Billy ain’t a welcher, he is willing to give the hits supreme versions and though they are more or less the same as every supreme version he has performed of them, he really does nail em down
Despite the cheesiness of his SAP streaming service and its music for elevators, I can still hear the melodies which means that this album is gonna be great. Father Misty John’s ‘I Love You Honeybear’, is out on February 10th via Sub Pop.
They named themselves after a sleep disorder that Blake’s girlfriend suffers from and I am just wondering whether the title of the album is a reference to an Elliott Smith’s song? Here is the video for ‘When You Were Mine’, featuring Tegan and Sara.
However, despite the cheesiness of his SAP streaming service and its music for elevators, I can still hear the melodies which means that this album is gonna be great. Father Misty John’s ‘I Love You Honeybear’, is out on February 10th via Sub Pop.
This is a spectacularly terrible song to lead off last year’s disastrous divorce album Turn Blue, an album which effectively derailed their career. Slow, depressing, atmospheric and the very definition of a pointless downer, Dan has suffered for his art, now it’s our turn – D+
First the Grammys were cool, then they missed the bus on rock and roll and missed it again with the British invasion, and then, sometime in the 1990s, about the time Dylan received the lifetime achievement award, they got cool, up till the moment they realized duets would give them cachet and now…
I wouldn’t have bothered a full review at all but… when punk happened in 1976 it was God and the rest of pop was Sodom And Gomorrah and everything it wiped out is on this this album only much, much worse than you remember it.
Now I the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by Fall Out Boy, who have at least two more WHOMPING SMASH HIT SONGS awaiting for you are “Centuries.” It is amazing how big they are gonna get.
MY GENERATION (1965), A QUICK ONE (1966), THE WHO SELL OUT (1967), TOMMY (double) (1969), WHO’S NEXT (1971), QUADROPHENIA (double) (1973), THE WHO BY NUMBERS (1975), WHO ARE YOU (1978), FACE DANCES (1981), IT’S HARD (1982), ENDLESS WIRE (double) (2006)
MY GENERATION (1965), A QUICK ONE (1966), THE WHO SELL OUT (1967), TOMMY (double) (1969), WHO’S NEXT (1971), QUADROPHENIA (double) (1973), THE WHO BY NUMBERS (1975), WHO ARE YOU (1978), FACE DANCES (1981), IT’S HARD (1982), ENDLESS WIRE (double) (2006)
This is a spectacularly terrible song to lead off last year’s disastrous divorce album Turn Blue, an album which effectively derailed their career. Slow, depressing, atmospheric and the very definition of a pointless downer, Dan has suffered for his art, now it’s our turn – D+
That’s a turbo charged top three pop album, indeed the top Five is very good indeed. In a reversal of 2014, 2015 is one of the best January’s in living memory. It is like everyone I s saying, hey we don’t buy your dog deads of January (no, froze days…). Which works for me, fine. A good month so far.
That’s a turbo charged top three pop album, indeed the top Five is very good indeed. In a reversal of 2014, 2015 is one of the best January’s in living memory. It is like everyone I s saying, hey we don’t buy your dog deads of January (no, froze days…). Which works for me, fine. A good month so far.
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by Fall Out Boy, who have at least two more WHOMPING SMASH HIT SONGS awaiting for you after “Centuries.” It is amazing how big they are gonna get.
For a Beach Boy fanatic, both albums might not add much to the story but what they add you’ll want to hear. And to hear Dennis, Carl and Brian performing together on stage can’t help but make you Smiley Smile.
Dig, We all love Buddy Holly and think he’s a gentleman with his gentle songs i.e. “Crying, Waiting Hoping”, “Oh Boy”, “Everyday”, “True Love Ways” but what if Chas. T. had a dark side? Who’s to say that he didn’t sit alone in the dark of his Lubbock garage and peruse the Billboard charts wishing harm upon his competition?
