Out of the blue, Pete sent me an .mp3, with just the words, “this shit built your camp.” I figured, whatever, and put the song on, out of politeness to my buddy. It started pretty well, reminiscent of Kylie Minogue’s “Love at First Sight,” except without the obvious Discovery-era Daft Punkish-touches. A bit more cascading [...]
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Shocking to see that Esteban beat me to reminsicing on Phish, now that they’re breaking up. But, I guess it’s no surprise that I’m out of the loop (again) regarding the band. This has gotten long…
Maybe I was a little bit hasty in my trashing of the Postal Service. This comes mostly on the heels of this admission: .: I have listened to “Such Great Hights” and “Nothing Better” at least 20 times apiece in the past 48 hours. I know this since iTunes tells me it is so. This [...]
I promised a description of big-sounding drums a while ago, so now that my moon / light mix is just about done (although no longer really clinging to that theme), I think I’m ready to explain the sound a bit more, while also justifying my recent listening to Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio” by mentioning [...]
So Salon is finally getting wise to what Sam has been saying forever: the most interesting music being made today (and by “today,” I mean something like “over the past half decade or more”) is in mainstream hip-hop. That’s not totally true. Sam, I think, would say that the most interesting hip-hop being made today [...]
(this will probably end up on the side bar.) .:1. “Amber,” 311 .:2. “It’s My Life,” No Doubt Any help filling this list out?
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Spex weighed in on “Hey Ya!” a while ago, having seen the making of the video on the television. Sam, I’m here to tell you that I’ve since seen the video multiple times and have already listened to the song ten times in a row this evening. This has been a pretty damn good summer [...]
Convocation for the lawyers is going on right outside right now. I ran into young Barbara Blank with her family on her way to getting her illustrious JD. Since I’m feeling a little anti-graduation these days, I’ve decided to hide in my office and listen to mp3s. So on comes Esquivel’s “Mucha Muchacha,” and I’m [...]
A pair of thoughts while noting that 50 Cent it featured in five of 26 songs on B96′s playlist… The video for Mariah Carey’s remake “Boy (I need you)” is maybe my fav. thing on BET/MTV at this time. In case you can’t get QuickTime to work, Mariah is dressed by robots before she goes [...]
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Deepak isn’t in the office, but he left his music on. It’s some a capella beats. And, my god, “Wading in the Velvet Sea” just began. I know that Phish is fond of rendering well-known songs in a capella, but to then do the same to a Phish song–especially one as objectively terrible as “Velvet [...]