Pop Music
So much of modern pop just plainly rips off the past decade of electronic music. It bugs me because I think if you are going to be a real pop star, you need something more than aging Tiesto beats.
And sometimes you wonder how many songs in your music library contain the word “pump.”
Only in Dreams by Weezer.
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I was randomly watching VH1 classic in my hotel last night and I caught an amazing moment on That Metal Show. Go to 9:50 and watch as they transition out of the act and into commercial. Things that crack me up about this.
- Bass solo
- The post-clapping awkwardness
- Audience members nodding along
- That AMAZING shot of a the girl dancing (?)
This just reminded me I have a shameful lack of Type O Negative in my library.
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Explosions in the Sky’s My Dad vs. Yours’ No Farm No Food No Future, from the album After Winter Must Come Spring.
We’ve been watching the Metal Evolution documentary series on VH1 Classic and I’m starting to hate the filmmaker. It’s just…badly done and he obviously has an opinion before he starts each installment so it’s hardly profound.
And yet I keep watching.
More drinks!
What’s interesting is how apologetic these guys all are. They know that power ballads kind of suck. What bothers me is whether or not they would have apologized at the time. When they were recording that third single or second album, did they know that they were making something that would have been a joke for most of the 90’s?
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Whatever (I Had a Dream) by Butthole Surfers
What really nails this track for me is John Leguizamo’s line from Romeo + Juliet in the first few seconds. </sarcasm>
Your new favorite song.
I got stuck in the rain coming home tonight. I was soaking wet, and pissed about it.
This song came on, and it made me think of violence. I had this sudden vision of two men fighting with a mix of gunplay mixed in.
Was it the music? Was it a memory of a movie or web video? Was it my general maleness? Too many years of superhero comics? My anger at my day and immediate situation?
Ddeadmau5 and the world’s most advanced 4D technology together, creating an amazing free light show at Millbank Tower, London.
Here the studio version.
Nantes by Beirut.
I’ve likely posted it 9-10 different times in different formats, but goddamn but if it doesn’t make me love it more with each listen.
If I was in a band, my band’s side project would be making gypsy music like this.
