Dolly Parton-9 to 5
I think country is Dolly clicking her nails in 9 to 5
I posted this as an after thought to an ilm thread about defining genre, and i wanted to expand it. I think that country rests much more on improvisation out of necessity, or […]

Wasps Nest by the 6ths- Stephin Merritts other band- is a dress rehearsal for the 69 love songs. It doesn’t move through genres and literary devices with his opuses whirl wind speed or ease- sticking to the campy, faggy indie pop, it does have[…]

Marianne Faithful-Love in the afternoon
There are songs that seduce by raw power. Fuck me now back against the wall yowlings. They are fun enough, but often not very good, and often I think easier to write.
Then they are songs like this, songs th[…]

The way that you can tell whether a pop song will last is how it interacts with an every day environment. If you find yourself hearing it in the mall shopping, or waiting for the doctor and think-I like that, it works.
I like the new Madonna single[…]

Usually it takes me more then an hour to flee from the realtions banality into my own music, this year its exactly 34 minutes and I’m downstairs listening to the sex pistols. I blame it on a mix of popera and kenny g.[…]

Christina Aguileras New Video
I saw this on MTV this morning after a sleepless night, and i have a few thoughts about transformation and dirrty versus virtue, but it all went out the window when i saw the two cute blonde boys snogging, not only di[…]

George Anthiel–Ballet Mecanique
Four days after Independence Day, in a new century in a fairly new country Anthiel was born. It only took him 25 years to flee to Paris, where a generation of avant guardians was drinking together. Under this i[…]

Momus-My Sperm is not Your Enemy
There is debate that this album is not as political as his other work, which confuses me, because Momus is all about aesthetics and fashion and posturing- his Maoists are in the media and the permanent cultural revalu[…]

On of the gifts of country music is describing the geography of the land as the geography of the heart. Each place has its memories, and places that are described as the fly over by those who live in the coast are filled with states that have a uniq[…]

Shania Twains most recent album is a double:
(The green album is the “rock mix” and the the red album is the “country mix”.)
Although the album is medicore at best- these mixes are the origin of fun games anyone can play at ho[…]