I am not familiar with the headspaces of those who have reacted to my reaction onChris Lawrence’s post regarding “self-annointed music cognoscenti,” and their condescension with which they approach pop music. I came out with what would probably be the most obfuscating word involved in this whole exchange of ideas. I used the term “esoteric.”… Continue reading this entry

Considering that first, I posted about artistic snobs, and that next, I posted on the successful flight of Spacehip One, the conflation of the two concepts has me suddenly filled with dread: are we going to, once again, see a surge in popular music that deals with space travel? I recall reading about such a… Continue reading this entry

Chris Lawrence confesses to enjoying the likes of Avril Lavigne and rails against the kind of crowd that I dislike too: [...] [I]f there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s the widespread condescension displayed by the self-annointed music cognoscenti toward popular music. It’s the same order of pretentious twaddle advanced by NPR listeners, independent bookstore… Continue reading this entry

While the rest of the blogosphere is up in arms over G-Dub’s call “upon the Congress to promptly pass, and to send to the states for ratification, an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of man and woman as husband and wife,” we missed Grey Tuesday. From the NYT article:… Continue reading this entry

I may be late to the party but hey. I have a crazy admission. I may jest again and again about Beautiful, but truth is the song is a piece of work, and in the vocal cords of Christina, it gains a life of its own. For anyone who doesn’t remember Linda Perry, who wrote… Continue reading this entry

I finally got my hands on this Tori Amos discography, which is a long time coming, considering it came out November last year. Before this there were only four Tori songs in my library: Little Earthquakes, Bells For Her, Hey Jupiter, and her rendition of Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Not a bad bunch, but it… Continue reading this entry

I saw last night’s CNN People In The News featuring Phil Spector among other folks. They sampled a lot of his music during the mini-documentary, and it jogged a little lesson from a friend of mine. Without the British Invasion and all the reactions that it has spawned, both good and bad, we might still… Continue reading this entry

Thank you, New York Times, for posting on the death of Anita Mui, the “Madonna of Asia” and not even giving any of your readers an idea of what she looked like. She was a pretty one, though I never heard of her before. Talk about journalistic quality standards: Asian A&E news that’s worth printing… Continue reading this entry

Ever wonder what happens to washed-up recording artists who end up losing their market before their seven-album recording deal has been fulfilled? We see them all the time promoting products, being in movies, or getting in television shows. I’d like to point out two very good examples. First up is Mandy Moore, with four albums.… Continue reading this entry

I went to the local brick-and-mortar FYE tonight to check our Sarah McLachlan’s latest release, Afterglow. I’m sure that if you cruise through the Adult Contemporary LiteFM stations you’ve heard her new song, Fallen. From the AMG review of the album: At times, the pacing is so languid and the production so open-ended, the album… Continue reading this entry

What do you get when you try to revive your band’s career by using a song of yours as a sign of a successful landing? Silence. Blur has cursed NASA the European Space Agency.; Kevin Aylward has the details. I wouldn’t go so far as to intimate Oasis frontmen as sabotaging this mission; they’re very… Continue reading this entry

Dear Chad, Please retire silently. Jay

Listen to David Strain sing live here! The lyrics to his songs would be in this latest entry of his. Damn I’m late in promoting this; sorry David.

I stopped listening to Nickelback a very long time ago. Unfortunately I still have to put up with a chance encounter with them, should I be in a spot where I have no control over the radio tuner, cd player, or tv remote. That said, the new video, Someday is damned abominable. Can we please… Continue reading this entry

As part of the MTV Generation™, I’ve seen my bigger-than-fair share of music videos, and though I wouldn’t say that I’ve “seen it all” when it comes to this art (?!), I can say that I’ve seen a lot. I find a lot of music videos tacky. There are the storytelling types that try to… Continue reading this entry

Michele and Dean are listing their votes for the Top Ten Albums of the 90s. I think I’ll plead the Fifth Commandment on this one. If I listed what I thought were the ten greatest albums of the 90s, a period which I spent growing up as a teenager in, I might be declared incontinent… Continue reading this entry

I have complied with Ian’s trap request and will post my own playlist. It is in no way… exhaustive. Let your ears bleed with refined sugar: ace of base – all that she wants air – playground love all saints – pure shores anggun – snow on the sahara ani difranco – little plastic castle… Continue reading this entry

Zombyboy has the scoop on an eeeeeeevil effect that iTunes shared playlists have on the campus pecking order. Now, instead of assuming that guys who wear A&F are stuck-up rich-bitch elitist snobs, we now have kids who can psychoanalyze each other on their tastes in music, and make amazing predictions as to their appearances. (Cue… Continue reading this entry

heard it from a friend who heard it from another that Michele is rewriting the glossary of rock genres. Follow up: I like REO Speedwagon. Obviously. Or not, if you don’t know the song. So there. Reunion rock is fun.

fucking r0x0rs… or something like that. I saw the Kim Jong-Il episode late last night and I couldn’t stop laughing. Sorry senstive folks. The show isn’t for you.