I had, for the longest time, this snobbery against “Best Of”s and “Greatest Hits” collections for bands and musicians; it was probably in some part brought on by the whole Britpop thing of, if you were really into a band, then you bought the singles and cared about the B-sides (Well, CD extra tracks, but [...]
With all the buzz surrounding Gorillaz’ new album, Plastic Beach - buzz that I shamelessly added to over at io9 - it should probably come as no surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of their old stuff (as well as their new; that NPR stream of Plastic Beach reveals that it’s another great [...]
In a store today, I heard Pearl Jam’s “Black” for the first time in many, many years (Maybe even a decade?), and as Eddie Vedder groaned the “I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life/I know you’ll be a sun in someone else’s sky” part - And, despite the melodrama, who hasn’t felt like that? [...]
Gomez were - and still are, I guess; they’re still around - a strange band at a strange time in my life. They arrived as I was starting (or about to start, I think?) my Masters degree, and there was something about their awkward mix of influences and reality that made a lot of sense [...]
Try, Try, Try
She and I having breakfast together in a shitty cafe down the road from where we were staying, and I couldn’t stop smiling. I’m sure she thought I was an idiot or something, but I was in the middle of this rush of emotion and happiness and unexpectedness that felt somewhere between a [...]
Someone who’s better equipped to deal with these things - Douglas, perhaps? - should work out the spread of things that’ve been infected by David Holmes’ soundtrack for the Ocean’s movies. Maybe it says a lot about the television I watch for fun (As opposed to Smallville, which really feels like work on the occasions [...]
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? The reason for that is, I went on vacation. And, as I’ve discovered since moving to America, vacation doesn’t actually mean “time off” as much as it means “time pushed to either side.” Maybe it’s just me, but everytime I get near vacation that doesn’t involve my work actually [...]
I’m having an old man moment, a “How can it almost be new year already?” confusion that’s bedeviled me for the last week or so; it felt like my Christmas feeling didn’t really kick in until a couple of days before the main event - and then, extra-unusually for me, then kicked straight back out [...]
Still, incredibly, swamped with work. Or, to be more accurate, the usual amount of work but a brain that doesn’t want to process information, so work takes twice as long as it really should, which is practically the same thing. And so, instead of real content, my latest obsession: People putting Beatles Rock Band videos [...]
As if to emphasize that I haven’t been (a) blogging too much of late - blame busyness on all manner of counts, I’m afraid - and (b) writing about seasonal music at all, despite my promise to do that very thing, iTunes has just happily provided the following double bill to provide a little bit [...]
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