Floor, "Downed Star" There's a longing feel to a lot of Floor, an almost wistful tint to the vocal style. When it's married to the thrumming music, it's a fun combination. Beastie Boys, "5-Piece Chicken Dinner" I love Paul's Boutique, but this is just a...
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American reader/listeners! I don't think I have any non-American reader/listeners! I barely have any American ones. Hmm, let's do "dinner" for a special word. For those of you who haven't seen me explain these before, when I do...
The Beastie Boys, "Hold It Now, Hit It" I've mentioned before here the ability of certain songs to transport me to very specific places and times. The Proustian recollection for this song is rolling through a lovely Spokane fall evening, crammed in the back seat...
Beastie Boys, "The Sounds of Science" My freshman year roommate couldn't stand this track, and would insist on skipping it when we listened to this record. Which was often, it was an album we could agree on. I thought I lost that copy of Paul's...
The Beastie Boys, "Pass The Mic" Probably the most Beastie Boys song on Check Your Head, this is the kind of thing that anybody who parodies the band is kind of gesturing towards. Given that it was deliberately constructed to be kind of an update...
