October 2009
3 posts
listening to "Live at the Olympia" by R.E.M.
The fine folks over at NPR are streaming the entirety of R.E.M.’s new album, Live at the Olympia. Stop whatever you’re doing, click on that link, and listen to it.
I first got introduced to R.E.M. with Green. I happened to stumble across the Michigan State University student radio station, Impact 89, which changed everything. It was on that station, late one night, that I heard...
20 years of PHM
Last night, Trent Reznor tweeted:
Happy birthday, old friend. Pretty Hate Machine turns 20.
I don’t remember how I found PHM, but I have lots of memories associated with listening to that album. It was my go-to pissed-off album for years, and even now, hearing “Head Like a Hole” makes me want to dance around in a frenzy.
This just made me realise that I don’t have that...
songs to expunge
John Scalzi put forth the following question in his blog:
You have the ability to expunge one song from the history of your favorite musical artist. Name the artist and song. Because even your favorite musician has a song that totally sucks, and you know that for sure.
Paul Kelly - “Bradman”. I know that it’s sacrilege to suggest expunging a song from one of Australia’s...
