May 2008
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#128: bob dylan - with god on our side (1963, newport folk festival) (excerpt) this memorial day, if you listen to 78 seconds of music from bob dylan at age 22, make it these 78 seconds. this performance makes me believe in truth, beauty, holiness, poetry, peace, love and understanding. but i still think joan baez is slightly annoying.
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#126: they might be giants - birdhouse in your soul (1990) for a song about a nightlight, this is an incredible creepy video (though that slow-motion synchronized jumping and the band’s synchronized robot dancing are both pretty sweet). on the downside i had an incredibly bad experience with this song six years ago, my freshman year of college, when i was sitting at a very silent table...
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“in ‘don’t you say no’ he reminds a woman that he pays for her...”
– the nyt on r. kelly’s sex-tape trial in chicago, beginning tomorrow
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#121: the notorious b.i.g. - juicy (1994) this one goes out to my mother, patti, who turns 58 today (but she doesn’t look a day over 53), because juicy has my favorite mom-and-birthday lyric in history: “thinking back on my one-room shack/ now my mom pimps an ac’ [acura!] with minks on her back… birthdays was the worst days/ now we sip champagne when we’re...
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#115: iris dement - sweet is the melody (1995) this is the prettiest song every written. iris dement makes joni mitchell or joan baez or any other sweet voice look like a hideous, acidic pile of deformed, vicious vocal ugliness. also, sweet is the melody is a beautiful song about beautiful songs, which means if someone wrote a song about it, the world would probably implode in a moment of sheer...
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#111: ray price - crazy arms (1956) for some reason i spent about an hour today reading about dark side of the moon / wizard of oz on wikipedia, which was probably a waste of my time, except that the 1,926-word entry taught me about jungian synchronicity, which turns out to be awesome. that got me thinking about watching ray price videos while listening to lil’ wayne songs. (i offer any of...
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