Nineteen years isn’t a bad run, for a baby band that blew up and then fell apart several times along the way.
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Month: January 2023
Sometimes I just want to listen to R.E.M.
I like to put an R.E.M. mix on while I’m baking. But only the ones that include Man on the Moon.
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Video: Fall Out Boy: Love from the Other Side (2022).
Fall Out Boy have once again regenerated. I’m not going to say they’re back, because they didn’t leave.
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Missed Connections: Happy Mondays.
I had an epic musical missed connection when I confused the Happy Flowers with the Happy Mondays, and didn’t realize what had happened until thirty-odd years later.
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Almost nobody cares what’s in the Top 10 any more.
You’ve never heard of current pop stars because they aren’t actually popular in mainstream culture.
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Shelf-reading at Bandcamp: Industrial — Leæther Strip, Metal Heart, Master Boot Record, Pertubator (2022, 2023).
Yeeeeeahhhh that’s the 2nd floor of Slimelight GOOD STUFF, y’all.
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Collected thoughts: The War on Drugs
I’m sulky mainly because of the band name, which causes me to think muffled cross thoughts about failed social policy. But the name harmonizes well with the band’s overall vibe, which is “skate park during the golden hour.”
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Late Night Listening: Status/Non-Status: Surely Travel (2022).
The blogging equivalent of sitting in the garage twiddling radio knobs just to see what might be out there.
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Mixtape: Songs for 2022
Some of these are old. Some of them are new(ish). They are all songs I listened to, with varying levels of obsessiveness, at various times during 2022.
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