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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Posts by springsnow
"[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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"The smile that she shows makes me a go-getter."
Why is it I only feel the need to write music when my emotions have gone haywire? I unexpectedly found myself back in touch with a friend of mine the other day and I came home totally infatuated. It was like hanging out with a parallel person, a cosmic partner. I've been crazy productive since it happened, but I'm also really, really antsy. It's as if all of the energy I've lost over the years
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"I drink 'til I'm drunk and I smoke 'til I'm senseless."
My relationship to music has become impossibly complicated over the years. I think this is in some part due to a certain dishonesty on my part. It must be, for lies tend to complicate things. The truth can be complicated too, but more often it's elegant and epiphanic. I think that my taste in music is largely a lie, a big lazy lie. This lie, it's decreasing in size right now as I work it o...
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