October 2009
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Watch#471: the notorious b.i.g. - the warning (1994)
while he warms himself up, the notorious b.i.g. casually fits fourteen rhymes (this, six, morning, dawning, yawning, eye, why, pop, shop, spot, plot, paper, neighbor and caper) into the song’s first two sentences. and when he really gets going, corridor, coroner, and florida spill out in the same breath, along with gorgeous threats in...
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Watch#464: randy newman - my old kentucky home (live in germany, 1975)
it’s like a whorehouse’s pianola and eudora welty’s short stories had a jewish baby who whistled stephen foster songs and could rhyme dandelion with turpentine, then add wine to make a ray bradbury reference. i swear, one day i’ll have a daughter named susan and a son named randy, just so he can say:...
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Watch#463: nina simone - sunday in savannah (1961)
the internet is a stuffed animal, i hold it close and it makes me feel good. it is lovely like central park, only not scary at night. it gives and asks little.
for example: so far today it’s provided dana goodyear’s extraordinary profile of james cameron (which begins with the director an inch from arnold schwarzenegger’s face,...
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Watch#460: mott the hoople - all the young dudes (1972)
the best david bowie song that’s not actually a david bowie song is also the best pop smash about stealing clothes, popping pimples, funky little boat races, t.rex on tv, boogaloo, news about the end of the world, drag queens, boring 60s songs, wine, concrete and sex. most importantly, those sloppy and delicious hand claps during the chorus...
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Watch#457: prince - dirty mind (1980)
none of the smart and beautiful things robert christgau has written about popular music matches the last line of his review of prince’s second album: “mick jagger should fold up his penis and go home.” prince was a young man with a mouth made out of velvet, a nose that knew a good perfume’s top base notes, an ear for james brown, and a...
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#455: bob dylan - it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry (1965)
UPDATE: VIDEO REMOVED, BUT LISTEN HERE.
bob dylan’s music is so perfect that the only thing you can really say is what george harrison once said, which is “he makes william shakespeare look like billy joel.” another thing you can say is that between 1964 and 1966 he released 25 songs that are so...
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Watch#454: radiohead - kid a (live, 2003)
with today’s conclusion of pitchfork’s top 200 albums of the 2000s countdown, the most haunting of all radiohead issues—kid a versus amnesiac—was finally put to rest. everything is in its right place: amnesiac (which has its intelligent supporters, but does not reach the same mind-tickling, soul-floating heights) clocked in at no. 34,...
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