Band: Robin Thicke
Album: Blurred Lines
Best song: I didn’t listen to the album.
Worst song: See above.
This piece is adapted from a series of emails, social media postings, notes and the like from the summer of 2013. I’m not enumerating anything anyone else already said more eloquently elsewhere — really, though, that’s the entire nature of this space. It this post seems dated, so be it. Continue reading
Band: Nirvana
Album: In Utero
Best song: “Radio Friendly Unit Shifter”
Worst song: Probably “Milk It”
There’s a saying that any single person’s favorite Saturday Night Live cast is the one from when that single person was in high school. I tend to think that fits with music, as well. We’re 14 years out of the intensely formative second decade of my life, but I continue to fall down into the comfort of music from the 1990s. I started playing the drums in 1992 and the guitar in 1995. I became someone who lived and breathed music around this time and that falls almost entirely on Nirvana. Continue reading