“The Horse attack the song with zero reverance, as the sloppy guitars wail and Young yelps, ‘I comef rom Alabama with a b-a-n-j-o on my knee!” Together they make ‘Oh Susanna” feel as turbulent as ‘Hey Hey My My (Into The Black)'”
Even famous and renowned musicians have called music bad and good, Duke Ellington said that ‘There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind’, and Louis Armstrong said about the same thing:
None of it rings true to him, none of it is satisfying. The lies he has been telling himself, his innocence over the pain he has caused, his childishness,crashes around him. “Goddam make me cry”, Conor moans and it is the end of his childhood. he has changed from a boy seeking to revenge, to a man who has to work out what he wants from women. He has been humbled by the confrontation with the girls pain.
If there is a Cobain solo album I will write the sucker into the ground, until then shut up about Cobain and let him do what he so badly wanted to do. So badly he left Francis to her Godforsaken Mom, who at least lived through it for her. Be left alone. It is the least he deserves. And the most he deserves.
Coachella is for Cubscouts who like camping and pretending its Woodstock and looking at tiny dots that make the bleachers at Metlife feel like the best seats in the house, while bands they would have been a million times better off seeing while they toured their town, lecture you about war and charity and deem to play from a mile away before leaving the 99% to their woes and getting fucked up with Rihanna and Thom Yorke in the VIP area.
to want Rihanna to be a good girl is beyond ridiculous. When I was her age I was fucking insane and I had no money either.If I had what she had,, I’d have done what she does
Red Hot Chili Peppers suing Showtime Networks over the TV show called ‘Californication’, the same name used by the band for their Grammy-nominated 1999 album, is different because the RHCP made up that word, so they kind of owned it…. but even in this case, when the word is out there, and caught up by others, is it still yours?
We are insecure animals, and being worshipped makes us happy and unsure at the same time. It gets in the way of who we really are. but it is addictive
I think it was just my naivety, but I was unaware that the tunes were direct allusions to Oberst’s drugging. I knew that “Lua” was definitely about self-medicating, but now with that fact in mind, and listening to the record, you can tell what he means when he mentions “these bars are filled with things that kill; by now you probably should’ve known”.
“I dreamt I saw Joe Strummer last night alive as you or me, said I but but Joe you’re ten years dead, punk never died, said he, punk never died said he
Is it as cool as the “n word”. Maybe not. But it it is a lot cooler than singing “the n word”. Plus? If offends nobody except for jerks. And it is better than getting chased down 125th street by a gang of enraged black people.
1970s rock ala Sirius FM. After Bowie, it is casually lousy. A string arrangement of the Eagles, a band I don’t recognize, a Cure near hit from the mid 1980s. I keep on popping up my head and trying to connect the dots but I don’t quite see the. The question is: what do you want your harried travellers to do before they ride into the sunset? The options are awful limited. essentially, shop or eat. SO what will put them in a calmed frame of mind? Muzak. Music that demands no reciprecation from the audience.
Katy Perry is selling tons of records, and she has a definitive influence on youth. If she can make teenagers wear pink outfits and blue wigs, she can make them join the army!
Since chart tampering is ridiculously easy, perhaps Billboard needs to update the rules. For instance, disallow bundling unless there is an option to buy or not the new album with the ticket to a show. Also, perhaps sales needs to be moved from units sold to dollars generated.
It is a little bit like when I discovered that James Mercer of the Shins had bought this old house in Portland, without being aware of the fact it had belong to Elliott! What are the odds that two songwriters I really like have lived in the same house? This case is pure serendipity, but it’s different for Gotye since I don’t particularly like him
They both believe the armed militia, the thin blue line, are motivated by racism. And fear, while as class distinction and fear is a much more accurate demarcation
In our own lives, we are all John Lennon, and other people play the other three Beatles. In every romance, one is John and the other is Paul. In John’s life itself, he was John and Yoko was Paul. In Katy Perry’s marriage, she was John and Russel Brand was Paul.
Madonna has two later compilations, not including Bedtime Stories, and none of them come close to TIC, the 1990 death by disco steamrolling hit single album
The US is at war and “Part Of Me” is a truly lousy song and deserves all the indifference that comes it way. But as for romanticising war…
Both are such angry albums, they are brittle, unbending, and self-righteous. Both snap at you all the way through. Neither are much fun for all their efforts. One whines, the other shouts, one accuses You, the other accueses “you”, neither has the lightest self awareness.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I heard this tune, and now I just can’t get enough. TBS is so wondrously talented, and I totally regret allowing myself to forget that. The way that all of the instruments and Lazzara’s vocals mesh is done so gracefully in a way that only they could pull off.
If Genghis Khan listening to Iron Maiden and Adolph Hitler listening to U2 is a cheap shot, I am only suggesting that both villains would be attracted to sounds as big as their egos.
My point in self-evident, it is arrogant, self-righteous stupidity to NOT take context in mind in the use of offensive words. If hip hop is going to remove the whip sting of racism in the word “nigger”, by respelling and redefining it, from a euphemism for sub-human slave, to “brother” than why don’t they want it used that way.
Her little monsters, the cast outs of society who simply cannot tell when their leader has sold out will hold all sort of raves in her honor. She really is the patron saint of lost souls.
”We need another musical revolution, which has got to come from the roots upwards. I’m waiting for that to happen, for the younger generation to shake it up again because it fucking needs it.”
And I think about the whole, with the racism, when people love when British people sound like American black people.’
Really, they were one of the biggest rock bands of all time, how do you ignore them. Really, this was Wenners way of saying this is my bat and my ball and if you don’t like it go fuck yourself.
talk about consensus opinion, all these people knowing watcha doing before you do it. What a drag!!! And pity the poor reviewer, who, if he ever ever did have an original idea in his head has had it kicked out by every body else by the time he catches the concert, and writes: “No surprises here”.
What is he trying to tell us, exactly? How don’t we know it? Were we born under a rock? Have we been asleep all century???? Forget century, have we been asleep since the 1980s? Or is he just trying to make fellow fathead Dave grohl’s ridiculous analog argument look bad????
The truth is, as we grow old we suck the life force out of rock and roll by not leaving it, not letting teenagers, who own it, to keep it. But what do you do when Chuck Berry is in his 80s? “Ring ring goes the bell” was a distance memory when Berry first wrote it, what is it today?
So the very idea of the big Arena bands, from the Stones to U2, is antithical, it’s beseides the point, a marketing ploy. And so sincere people sneer at it. It is beneath an indie rocker like Titus Andronicus leader Patrick Stickles even if he is the last person on earth capable of doing it.
One more hit, one more bank failure, if the dollar gets devalued, if Israel blows up Irans nuclear facility, ANYTHING, and that’s it for a generation. Kids graduating High School now may never get a job. So where is the music to go along with the real dread?
So if someone is rich, he can’t be offended or have an opinion about the powers that be, whom they believe responsible for fucking up the country? Nonsense
Of all the comparisons you might make on this album, I think the closest might be The Rising. Like The Rising, Wrecking Ball has only one subject and that subject is a Great American Disasters
Obviously I’ve seen many, many bands very early in their career, from the Sex Pistols (before Sid Vicious), Elvis Costello (before the Attractions), X-ray Specs (with Lora Logic), Grandmaster Flash, Diana Krall, Prince, cyndi Lauper, Blur, Oasis…
am a Catholic but non-practicing. I found the lashing of Jesus Christ disturbing. Again, I am a bad Catholic but I don’t see the crucifixion or torture of Jesus Christ as musical theatre. I felt the 39 lashes to a great rock hook is surreal. Not sure how I was supposed to react to it? And the finale with Christ on the glitzy cross almost brought the audience to its feet. It was a bit too surreal for me.
I consider myself well versed in his life and times and to this day hold him in high regard. This is what makes things like this so painful.
‘It’s a horrible situation for everybody, they tried to save Whitney, and it didn’t work. Now with Bobbi Kristina, they fear the same thing is happening again and they won’t be able to stop it either. Bobbi Kristina is all Ms. Cissy has left of Whitney
So maybe I was wrong on my earlier rant regarding what you would do for rock and roll. Maybe its my mature age that makes me think these type of things dotn still happen. Yes, we can buy time with our heroes but if your 17 without a job or cash, you do it old school style
Craig Finn is a musical Phil Silvers. I was a huge fan of the terrific commedian and if you have ever seen Phil as Sgt Bilko, you’ll note how when the men in the platoon catch him in a con, he turns do them and speaks out of the side of his mouth.
What wouild I have done to my corpse? I don’t give a toss what’s done to it. Gang rape it, draw a moustache on it, throw it out with the garbage. Show it as much respect as you would a steak dinner. Eat it. All the same to me
I respectfully recommend some Seger healin’ for you, Ms. Bach, and maybe you will surprise yourself and will be hummin’ a song from 1962 next time you awaken to thunder (or maybe not) but take that chip off your shoulder for a little while and give a listen
I would have been really anxious with this guy on the loose and his closet full of knives! Remember, John Lennon was killed by a stalker, John Hinckley shot president Ronald Reagan to impress Jodie Foster he was obsessing about, Michael Jackson had numerous stalkers who sent him hundreds of letters threatening to commit mass murders at his concerts
Why journalists aren’t confronting Mustaine with all this? Why do they let him think he can say anything he wants without even being challenged? And why do they ask him his opinion about things like these? Please, stick to the music!
M. Ward and Justin Vernon look as bland as a Republican candidate and a former hippie going to a job interview, and have all the animation of, er, something that is inanimate.
“I was driving at the time and already really low on sleep,” “We were only five miles away from where we were staying and I was starting to get really drowsy, but since we were so close I wanted to just finish the drive.
Adams is not allowing any pictures on this tour, not even for professional journalists, and his PR is actually encouraging reviewers to bring along a sketch artist! What? Like in a courtroom? Sorry but I was too far to have produced any good sketch of him, and that would have distracted me
Really? We want to screw over George Clinton? To What end? Jigga and Jeezy owe him a fortune, why don’t the cheap bastards give him the 50K. This is infuriating. How can Clinton not raise a lousy 50K? After his music has been used for decades.
Brown resumed punching Robyn F. and she interlocked her fingers behind her head and brought her elbows forward to protect her face. She then bent over at the waist, placing her elbows and face near her lap in [an] attempt to protect her face and head from the barrage of punches being levied upon her by Brown.
Poses is one of the best albums since… ever. As gay albums go, it transcends its bent with ease and flies at you. Do you know it? Play “Greek Song” and listen for the violins and wait for the pay off, “When I get back I will read in Barnes And Nobles…”
