The Hidden Cameras, "Fear Is On" This is far, far too twee. I want to knock the books out of this song's hands and then stuff it into a locker. Destroyer, "An Actor's Revenge" Your Blues is extremely Bowie. There's always some Bowie in a...
Talib Kweli, "The Proud" Black Star underwent a slow disintegration after their one and only record, one of the best hip-hop records ever. Mos Def pursued a solo career, leaving Talib Kweli and DJ Hi-Tek to make a record together. Then, Kweli broke from Hi-Tek...
Front 242, "Quite Unusual" I've mentioned before on here, but I think Front 242 might have aged the best of the various industrial dance acts that I listened to in the late 80s/early 90s. I guess Nine Inch Nails aged better, but Reznor only...
ALL, "Honey Peeps" By the time they hit 1997's Mass Nerder, ALL was on their third singer across seven albums, but the band still basically sounded the same. This was finally the album where I realized that I was very much done with them. The...
NoFX, "Dinosaurs Will Die" By the time they reached 2000's Pump Up The Valuum, it was clear that NoFX were dedicated to never evolving for any reason. Which just makes them writing a song about the impending destruction of the music industry for, uh, not...
