Band: Adele
Album: 21
Best song: Half the album is great. “He Won’t Go” is my current favorite, but my favorites change daily.
Worst song: The other half is just OK.
So much of this space is devoted to the conflict I have in aging, my self image and my cultural tastes, so it will come as very little surprise that I’m going down that road once again. For the most part, I stick toward (not to, but toward) the margins of mass appeal popular culture. Continue reading
Band: Rachel’s
Album: Systems/Layers
Best song: “NY Snow Globe” is wonderful.
Worst song: “Packet Switching” falls short.
Because this site doesn’t get a wide amount of traffic — and I’m thankful for this, by the way — I imagine I should try and reconcile my issues with Twitter, the outside world and the notion of intellectually masturbating. This is to say that I’m trying to actually figure out my own place on the privacy spectrum. Continue reading
Band: Genesis
Album: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Best song: The title track is amazing
Worst song: Much of the second disc is mediocre to just OK.
In college, I went through a progressive rock period. It was largely due to my love of post-rock and the influences progressive rock and jazz had on the genre. I was also not immune to the fact that the differences between progressive and psychedelic rock are not vast and the greatest band of those two genres just happened to Pink Floyd (a band I’d already loved). Continue reading