I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing The Hip perform this live but apparently it’s become something of a signature moment. According to Wikipedia “New Orleans is Sinking” is perhaps the band’s most well-known song. When performed live, Downie often goes off on an ad-libbed tangent. In the most famous such version, a B-side from [...]
I’ve been on the road so much the past week and change it’s hard to come up with good entries for songs (let alone being able to post all the songs in advance.)
I didn’t like Fischerspooner’s “Emerge” much when it first came out so I didn’t expect a remix to change my mind that much. [...]
Being rushed for time kills me. I want to tell a long story about running into a scary dude from high school who used to steal cars and always brought along his own music to listen to as he drove the stolen cars all over the city - mostly Slick Rick.
Instead I’ll do a crappy [...]
Upon the first few listens of Portishead’s Third you can begin to imagine why it took ten years to create. The sounds are dark, fractured and intricate. The groaning samples that make up the backbone of “Nylon Smile” have the earmarks of hours, if not days, of studio tinkering to get just the right sound. [...]
Cold Water Flat didn’t last long but they left a big impression. Almost everyone going to shows in town around 1994 or 1995 had them as the ‘Next Big Thing.’ It was hard to argue with the songs the bad was writing and the performances getting great reviews at every turn. They were even on [...]
One of the challenges I had growing up was finding music my parents and I could agree on. We didn’t share a lot of common ground so it was always a challenge to find something to put on in the background during dinner or when we were all in the living room together. Some form [...]
I try not to think of Ray Price as the man who made AM radio so scary in the early 70’s (and most of the 80’s) with “For the Good Times.” In fact, when I started to dig deeper into the vaults as I learned about Country music I had written Price off just because [...]