I love this band but they can bedifficult to listen to. I have one DeerhoofCD, one LP, and about four or five downloadedalbums that, in lightof that difficulty, were not in heavy rotationdespite the fact that I was delighted and intriguedby every one of those albums.They are one of thosebands, and I’ve listenedto a lotContinue reading “#667: D is for Deerhoof”
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#665: D is for The Decemberists
First, I almost violently dislike harmonicas, and it’s the first thing I hear on the openingtrack of The King Is Dead, an album I haven’t listened to in years, not since its release way back in 2011, I’d guess.An early fan, I think I have nearly all of their firstalbums on CD. I liked thatContinue reading “#665: D is for The Decemberists”
#663: D is for The Dear Hunter (Part the Second)
It took three daysto get through The Acts,five albums, eleven discs. And now I approachMigrant, a collection of prog-pop-rockso delicious, so melodic, so powerful, as to makeit one of my favoritealbums of the last decade. Released initially in 2013, interrupting The Acts in progress, and then remixedand resequenced and expanded for it’s 10thanniversary in 2023,Continue reading “#663: D is for The Dear Hunter (Part the Second)”
#662: D is for The Dear Hunter (Part the First)
In 2020, I wrote a whole thingabout these Dear Hunter kidsand how I discovered them, slowlybut surely, and how they becameone of my favorite new acts of thefirst decades of the 21st century.Now, five or six years later afterthat discovery, I remain a superfan. They are the only contemporaryband, for example, that I have seenliveContinue reading “#662: D is for The Dear Hunter (Part the First)”
#656: C is for Costello, Elvis (20/22)
20: Hello, Clockface Let’s begin with a middle easternsoundscape and a spoken-word thing, “Love is the one thing we can save;” follow that up with a trashy punk number, “I’ve got no religion/ I’vegot no philosophy;” and third, a kindof demented sounding country song. Here’s a jazz ballad, replete with a horn section and trumpetContinue reading “#656: C is for Costello, Elvis (20/22)”
#652: C is for Corea, Chick
I don’t know how this record got into the collection. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to it before. When I pulled it out, at first, even though I was familiar withthis famous name, I couldn’t evenbe sure what instrument ChickCorea played. Was he a horn guy? I say to myself as I place theContinue reading “#652: C is for Corea, Chick”
#651: C is for Cooper, Alice
I Shock rocker Alice Coopereach tour would devise someway to execute himself at the end of the show. One tour, he hung himself, in anotherhe chopped his head offwith a guillotine, and the timeI saw him on the From The Inside tour, he put himselfin an electric chair. A rockstar with 9 lives, by theContinue reading “#651: C is for Cooper, Alice”
#643: C is for Cheap Trick
In yet another unfortunatecase of an alphabetizing mishap, Chicano and Childish inadvertently show up in the stacks before Cheapand before Cars. I may need to hire a new alphabetizer, as this one keepsmaking these unforgivable mistakes. I’ll cut my guy a little slack for neglecting The Cars altogether,filed as they are, in a box setonContinue reading “#643: C is for Cheap Trick”
We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Talk About Geese
I just don’t want to like them. Everybody loves Geese. Everybody loves their new album, Getting Killed. Everybody seems to be falling down stupid-in-love with their singer and principal songwriter, Cameron Winter. Even people whose opinions I trust and whose art I respect or love, St. Vincent and Marc Maron, as examples, are falling overContinue reading “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Talk About Geese”
#632: B is for Bowie (“Brilliant Adventure,” The Box)
I I could read more, I suppose, to be more learned (“LUR-ned”)on the subject, but sometimesit’s just fun to imagine. Five yearspassed between albums, a totalmystery for a guy who had beenso prolific now for two full decades. He may have just been resting(entirely unlikely, I think). Or doing other stuff. Didn’t the first TinContinue reading “#632: B is for Bowie (“Brilliant Adventure,” The Box)”
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