Keep Quiet

Keep quiet – Lemuria I was teased once for wearing a Lemuria shirt. At the corner of King Georges and Stoney Creek roads in Beverley Hills waiting for the walk signal. It hurt, i’ve never forgotten it and i demand an apology. Of course i didn’t stick up for myself, caught in that discourse of [...]

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The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side

The luckiest guy on the Lower East Side – The Magnetic Fields When i bad mouth New York, it is from a knowing subordinance, and is out of jealousy and spite. It’s reinforcement in songs like this, imagery like this, of wonder and of life lived properly, that makes it all at once so compelling, [...]

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Dead of the Night

Dead of the night – Demon Flight Metal! At least i hope so. The vocals on this song seem so artificial, so whiny, so “when i squeeze my nose i sound like Axl Rose”, and yet so awesome that i hope on hope that this is genuine and not some sham hipster parody. I should [...]

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Too Many Creeps

Too many creeps – Bush Tetras What a great song! I’m the most inhibited dancer in the world and the last person that should be jury to what and what isn’t danceable, but even from my wallflower locale i know this is beyond funky. Pat Place on guitar! So simple and so amazing. That could [...]

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Evident Utensil

Evident utensil – Chairlift It had to happen sometime. The same song came up twice. And it’s this one, the impetus for one of my more shameful, pathetic mess of write-ups. My opinion has not changed in the week or two since i wrote that, nor has exactly what i am rallying against become any [...]

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Evident Utensil

Evident utensil – Chairlift Confirmation i am doomed to live a lonely, lonely life is that i hate every presence of the deep male voice in this song. I first heard it during an episode of that great bringer of contempt and displeasure – and that wonderful feeling of inferiority – into my late night [...]

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