Monthly Archives: January 2011

Face Value

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Band: Phil Collins
Album: Face Value
Best song: “In the Air Tonight.” Hands down.
Worst song: The version of “Behind the Lines” is kind of bad.

I tell this story a lot, but when I asked my older sister what it felt like to be 30 (on her birthday), she answered with a very simple response: “It feels exactly like 29.”

I tend to agree and find birthdays to be pretty awful. Certainly the arbitrary notion of birthdays in denominations of tens is just that: Arbitrary. Moreover, the general self-congratulations of birthdays doesn’t really attract me. Continue reading →

Animal

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Band: Ke$ha
Album: Animal
Best song: “Tik Tok” is a fun song, albeit a stupid one.
Worst song: The whole album is pretty worthless.

Shameful confession: I like “Tik Tok.”

I realize that admitting that is somewhere between “really dumb” and “genocide” in the public consciousness. Because, really, Ke$ha is a ridiculous human being and that song is the uttering of a ridiculous human being. Continue reading →

Runaround Sue

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Band: Dion
Album: Runaround Sue
Best song: “The Wanderer.” It is awesome. “Kansas City” is always done well, and Dion’s got a nice voice to do it.
Worst song: The version of “Little Star” is kind of awful.

I’ve written about his before (recently), but I’ll try to take a different approach this time. Like most people, my music tastes wax and wain, but instead of the pre-Internet/pre-Last.fm days, I have a vague recording of what music I’ve enjoyed since the technology has been available. Continue reading →

Desire

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Band: Pharoahe Monch
Album: Desire
Best song: “Free” is the clear highlights, though “Let’s Go” is also great.
Worst song: “Bar Tap” isn’t much.

The world needs polemicists.

This was a recent issue with me in the case of Julian Assange. Assange is, without doubt, a terrifyingly troubling human being. At best, he’s a really creepy dude within his online profiles and blogs. At worst, he’s a sexual predator. This is, of course, about as bad as one can be. Continue reading →