Pavement, "Texas Never Whispers" Time for a deranged opinion! Specifically: Watery, Domestic, the 1992 EP that Pavement released between Slanted & Enchanted and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is, pound for pound, the best Pavement release. Four songs, all killer, and from their peak period. These tracks...
The Beatles, "Let It Be" When I find myself with no ideas / struggling to write a blog / I fall back on dumb jokes / mail it in TWRP, "Only the Best" OK, I don't love those lyrics there, but in the spirit of of mailing it...
The Miracles, "You've Really Got A Hold On Me" Even over the course of just a few years (this is from 1962), the Motown sound evolved very rapidly. That's not to say anything wrong with this, it's delightful, but Motown moved really fast, and by...
Cobalt, "Gin" Gin, that's a very good idea. Television, "Friction" Forever the song before "Marquee Moon". The Beatles, "I Me Mine" We're skewing old today, which is fine, because I am old. So old. Fine, I'll say something more: Let It Be has some memorable...
The Beatles, "I'm So Tired" Big same, Beatles. DJ Krush, "Jikan no Hashi 2" Do I need to hear "Jikan no Hashi" for this song to make sense? Abstract hip-hop artist DJ Krush's 1996 MiLiGHT featured a bunch of collaborations, resulting in a bit of...
