The Police, "King Of Pain" By the time Synchronicity came out, the Police were really out of gas. There are some fine pop songs on it, but lots of filler, and even the good songs are kind of tame compared to some of their previous...
Tortoise, "TNT" One thing I've always loved about Tortoise is their willingness to name songs things totally different from what they might sound like. A song called "TNT" should sound like, I dunno, an AC/DC knock-off, not a cerebral post-rock tune with a trumpet...
Pretty cool stuff today. Amon Tobin, "Proper Hoodidge" It feels like we've had Tobin before, but the mighty and infallible Five Songs Index says no, so here we are. Tobin is probably my second favorite electronic artist after Squarepusher, with Supermodified being my favorite album...
Just in case anybody is curious, I've started using ToVid to upload songs to YouTube. It seems to work with a minimum of hassle, the only drawback being that I sometimes need to convert songs to MP3 before uploading them. For that job, media.io...
I listened to yesterday's songs again with Megan on the couch, and it was kind of a lackluster set. Not that some of those artists haven't done good things, but it sure didn't hang together. I guess that's the hazard of this thing, but here's...
