Only one year after Pure Comedy, Father John Misty releases God’s Favorite Customer. A significantly more rocking affair, albeit mid-tempo to slow; it crushes harder, it’s lyrically more personal, confessional,the melodic hooks are stronger, it’s easierand more fun to sing along to these songs,there’s more humor here, but as usual,it’s pretty dark in there: “You’reContinue reading “#691: F is for Father John Misty (18, 22, 24)”
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#535: Melt the Guns (Elton’s Version)
A deep cut from the Caribou album, I bet few of us remember that Elton John and Bernie Taupin, in 1974, wrote a song about a massshooting. As a kid, ten years old, the song terrified me. Even thoughI may not have been able to singit to you, I remembered the lyricsto “Ticking” up toContinue reading “#535: Melt the Guns (Elton’s Version)”
#117: Date Night
When my parents were going out, the house stank of perfume and cologne, aftershave and hairspray, a suffocating amalgam of indescribable smells found nowhere in nature, but pleasant somehow to my young nose, a festive, anticipatory smell of dancing and booze and card games and the precursor for me to a fast food dinner, beingContinue reading “#117: Date Night”
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