Billie Holiday
The 1,001 Greatest Songs of the 20th Century – 700 to 691
haunting despondency
rock nyc Heavy Rotation Friday, July 22nd, 2016
Jilted John – Jilted John – This is a rebuke to modern pop, it is a rebuke to those who put professionalism before passion, those who pay their dues. An hysterical dis of the common man, two timed by Julie, and that moron Gordon. The best line? When John runs into Jill and Gordon and…
10 Songs, Saturday, March 22nd, 2014
Spinners – The Hold Steady – For a band I like so much, these guys are sure hit and miss, either it is the same old riff up hook up with speak sing vocals or they nail it down like it is the only song that matters. This is the former except the guitar is tastier than it was, ringing and chiming like never before – B
The A+ List 2-14-14
Starting with a spitted out “That’s why I fucked your bitch, you fat mother fucker”, 2Pac takes the Bad Boy crew and blows em away and never better: this time he wipes the smirk off Biggie’s face with a violent, threatening, deadly earnest “Back the fuck up or you’ll get smacked the fuck up.” Result: the murder of two of the biggest pop stars of all time.
The Saddest Songs Ever!!!
let’s say, you are one of the lucky ones, well, it doesn’t matter because if you have nothing to be sad about, devastated about, your brain won’t let you rest. You’ll make one up. Yes, and if it gets really really bad and it can, it will, it does, it can leave you an emotional and physical wreck, insane with grief, you can die, you can be alone, you can kill yourself. Life doesn’t care.