http://mog.com/clups Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:54:31 GMT MOG - clups's Posts en-us 60 http://mog.com/clups/blog/116247 <p>I can't stop listening to this song . . .</p> <a href="javascript://playYoutube" onclick="Player.toggleYoutube('youtubepickpgr4NWPLRc','youtubecontrolkpgr4NWPLRc','kpgr4NWPLRc','youtubevideokpgr4NWPLRc',116247)"><img id="youtubepickpgr4NWPLRc" class="play" style="margin:20px 0 0;" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/kpgr4NWPLRc/2.jpg" height="318" width="424" /><img id="youtubecontrolkpgr4NWPLRc" class="control" style="margin:0 0 20px;" src="/images/youtube_controls.gif" height="17" width="424"/></a><div id="youtubevideokpgr4NWPLRc">&nbsp;</div> Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:54:31 GMT http://mog.com/clups/blog/116247 clups http://mog.com/clups/blog/75866 <p>What an amazing band . . . I miss them so. . .</p> <a href="javascript://playYoutube" onclick="Player.toggleYoutube('youtubepicb_EuqztCMVo','youtubecontrolb_EuqztCMVo','b_EuqztCMVo','youtubevideob_EuqztCMVo',75866)"><img id="youtubepicb_EuqztCMVo" class="play" style="margin:20px 0 0;" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/b_EuqztCMVo/2.jpg" height="318" width="424" /><img id="youtubecontrolb_EuqztCMVo" class="control" style="margin:0 0 20px;" src="/images/youtube_controls.gif" height="17" width="424"/></a><div id="youtubevideob_EuqztCMVo">&nbsp;</div> Sun, 20 May 2007 05:24:47 GMT http://mog.com/clups/blog/75866 clups http://mog.com/clups/blog/73384 <p>I almost always have my iTunes playing on random while I am at home doing mundane things about my apartment. Recently I heard R.E.M.'s "Drive" for the first time in about forever. I couldn't help but think to myself, "wow, what a horribly mediocre song this is". Soon I was asking myself, did R.E.M. basically get a free pass artistically through the 90s? It seemed like anything they released was universally praised and sold like hot cakes. Sure, they had some great songs ("Electrolite", "Try Not to Breathe", to name a couple) in the 90s, but there was hardly the level of consistency like they had in the 80s. Am I just being bitter in the classic "cult favorite becomes wildly popular" sense, or did the quality of R.E.M.'s material really begin to drop off in the 90s?</p> Sat, 12 May 2007 18:16:53 GMT http://mog.com/clups/blog/73384 clups