This is getting rough, especially since he just published new material.
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s amazing that some of the greats are able to drop albums right before they die… the perfect gift to a world that loved them.… Read the rest “Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)”
Bowie’s passing didn’t really have a ton of impact on me; I was never a fan, so it was just generically sad. Glenn Frey was tougher to take, but he’d been out of the cultural spotlight since Hell Freezes Over, so it wasn’t that big a jolt.… Read the rest “Prince Rogers Nelson (1958-2016)”
One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums of the last ten years.
Just to prove I’m still alive over here.
Goofing around, I told Siri and Apple Music to play the top ten songs of 1997.
Holy shit, that was a mistake.
Given that the Gallagher brothers from Oasis resented and despised each other even more than the members of the Eagles and Beatles combined, it’s easy to overlook how much they hated everyone else in the world, too. As with their spiritual forefathers, they had a knack for packaging bile, jealousy, and selfishness in musical camouflage so radio-friendly that it seemed natural to sing along.… Read the rest ““Wonderwall” – Cat Power”
Your lights are on
but you’re not home
your will is not your own
Robert Palmer’s original Addicted To Love was a smirking, grinding celebration of shameless desire that —in retrospect— seems like an absurdly calculated, on-the-nose bookend to his 1979 cover of Moon Martin’s Bad Case of Loving You.… Read the rest ““Addicted To Love” – Robert Palmer”
Baby girl
You want it all
To be a star
You’ll have to go down
Take it off
No need to talk
You’re crazy
But I like the way you fuck me
Buckcherry’s Crazy Bitch was my ringtone for about six months in the mid-2000s, which probably says more about me as a then-thirtysomething man than I should be comfortable admitting.… Read the rest ““Crazy Bitch” – Buckcherry”
What kind of love have you got
You should be home, but you’re not
A room full of noise, and dangerous boys
still makes you thirsty and hot
Long before any of us wandered on to Tumblr, The Eagles were out there in the trenches, bringing Southern California-style misogyny to the masses.… Read the rest ““Victim of Love” – The Eagles”
Look around, and you will see
This world is full of creeps like me
You look surprised, you shouldn’t be
This world is full of creeps like me
Lyle’s late ’80s/early ’90s approach to his work had a huge impact on the way I view writing.… Read the rest ““Creeps Like Me” – Lyle Lovett”
I took a ride with a sadist on a Saturday night
His teeth were like diamonds in the dashboard light
He knew a place nearby, we took a right at the light
and I smiled ‘cause I’d never, ever been there
David Baerwald’s A Secret Silken World is about the uncomfortable allure of a creepy old pervert who feasts on gormless youth, so yeah, I’m more or less contractually obligated to include it here.… Read the rest ““Secret Silken World” – David Baerwald”
