One reason I'm none too fond of music reviews as a general rule: Every now and then professional music reviewers seem to collide and collude against a specific musician for no obvious reason. Like, say, Tim Kinsella. Every time I read a Joan of Arc or Make Believe review, I can actually visualize some smarmy 22-year-old Pitchfork-sired music critic crouching behind Tim while another, perhaps a w
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"[wednesday] night in the kingdom of doom..."
"and it feels alright."
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Well, look, I don't need to tell you that Scott Walker is the best thing since sliced bread. There are plenty of magazines and blogs and what-have-you espousing that now-popular party line these days. I will say that the man's grasp of Jacques Brel's music is awe-inspiring, and that all four of his sixties albums are well worth a listen. Scott 4 is probably the most accomplished and rewarding,
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"you're a wasted face, you're a sad-eyed lie, you're a holocaust."
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Is there a more depressing song than Big Star's "Holocaust"? I mean, the whole of Elliott Smith's discography couldn't touch this song. Hank William's "Alone and Forsaken" isn't a patch on this song. And here's the reason why: these songs deal largely with unreal things, the rough stuff of the mind. They are man moaning meaninglessly, however beautifully they do it. These songs evoke a bad
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