January 2012
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MTV Circa 1994, Soundgarden, and my Grandma
It is sad to me that children of this new generation and future generations will never know of the wonder that was MTV in the early-mid 1990’s. MTV at that time was cutting edge and unbelievably cool. I used to spend countless hours by myself or with the few neighborhood friends I had at the time, watching videos and discovering the outside world through them. I wanted to know what they were...
December 2011
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October 2011
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Tuesday 3: Underrated Guitar Players
Underrated and overrated are interesting concepts. These two concepts are generally nothing more than personal opinion. I still hold them to be appropriate though. Due to various causes or reasons, people, places, and things of all sorts don’t get the attention they deserve. Today’s focus is guitarist who I feel deserve more attention.
(These are in no specific order)
Ricky Wilson...
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A Lot to Love
Somewhere in the year 2002 Wilco became America’s band. They became our bastion of intelligent art-rock and they proved that intelligent music with infinite possibilities was still being created. In truth, Wilco had been an excellent band for many years before the release of their masterpiece in 2002. Wilco had been putting out albums filled with excellent songs and pristine musicianship for...
September 2011
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What's the Frequency, R.E.M.?
As I’m sure you have heard, R.E.M. decided to break up. They did this without any acrimony, ill will, or any of the other typical band-calling-it-quits cliches. They simply just decided that their time was up. I’m sure there were business decisions or record label bullshit, but I’ll take their word for it because frankly Mike Mills and Michael Stipe seem like nice guys...
August 2011
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Go 'Fork Yourself!
I guess Pitchfork is 15 years old or something today. This got me thinking about the history of Pitchfork and what it all means. For those of you that don’t know, Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an online website that has music news, music reviews, videos, MP3’s, photographs, and columns on music. They primarily focus on the indie spectrum of music but they are known to cover...
July 2011
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Tuesday Shoegaze
I typically sit in my cubicle most of the day waiting to be told to do something eagerly anticipating lunch or the time I get to leave. But somedays I get ideas and today I will act on one of those ideas.
I love the musical genre of shoegaze. The typically British (Americans just never did it as well) musical genre that is defined by walls of distorted guitar, hazy atmospheric passages,...
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The Name of this Blog is Stupid
I often get asked, “Yo dawg what’s up with this marmalade nonsense?” or, “Marmalade cream?! That sound GAH-ROSS!” So I have decided to take the time and explain the logic/name behind this blog.
*I have never been asked these questions, but let’s pretend the first one was asked by American Idol’s Randy Jackson.*
The Adventures of Pete and Pete is most...
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5 Things to Dig On - Wednesday Edition
Radiohead’s From the Basement session. YouTube it. ‘Morning Mr. Magpie’ live trumps the album version with it’s incessant funky groove. Plus it is always fun to watch Thom Yorke do this thing(s).
Louie CK’s Louie (Thursdays@ 10:30 PM). Louie CK my favorite stand-up comedian mainly because he gets it. He is a realist. Some would call his approach cyncism, but I find...
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In Defense of Grunge
Grunge gets shit on. That is incredibly blunt and matter-of-fact but I strongly believe that the grunge genre or movement, whatever you want to call it, was/is seen by many as a joke. Now there are a variety of reasons and events that can lend creedence to the belief that grunge was a joke or a fad. Some of these reasons include: signing every band or guy who played guitar and had long hair to...
Record Shopping
I went to The Record Collector in Ferndale today. Here is what I bought with blurb about each:
Dirty Three - Horse Stories “Songs for riding your horse through a desert while going through a messy divorce.”
New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon “Apparently it was too much too soon cause a bunch of these guys died and the lead singer became Buster Poindexter (look it up).”
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