Band: Bedhead
Album: WhatFunLifeWas
Best song: “Liferaft” is amazing and among the band’s best work.
Worst song: “Foaming Love” is not great.

Why do we need personal memorials?

I get why we need big, fancy ones. I don’t have a problem with the notion that Americans should know who Martin Luther King Jr. is, so we put statues of him up and we put him on stamps and we make movies about him and such. The Chicago Bears have a patch on their uniforms honoring the first owner of the team. Young people ask older people what GSH means and they get to learn about George Halas. I get it. That makes sense. It’s history in a regular world sense. Tales passed down. Important people remembered. Continue reading →

Band: Bedhead
Album: Transaction de Novo
Best song: “Forgetting,” “More than Ever” and “Psychosomatica” are all classics in different ways. “Parade” is brilliant, too.
Worst song: Guess who writes only about albums he loves? This blog should be called Albums that I Love (more on titles below).

This blog could have and should have been called Forgetting.
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