updated for correct setlist and a link to a youtube video or two.
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Saw The National perform at the Tabernacle in Atlanta last night. Solid show. I’m not sure if it was them or me, but one of the two of us took some time to warm up, but by about 5 or 6 [...]
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general admission
Posted in Music on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A track by track review of the new Tori Amos album, “Abnormally Attracted to Sin”
Posted in Music on May 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Tori Amos, my favorite singer for a span of roughly ten years, returned on Tuesday with yet another recent album which displays the same distinct inability to self-edit and produce a work of consistent quality that has been troubling her for quite a few years now. Though it features none of the one-minute long horrific [...]
Drunken Shriek
Posted in Music on March 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For the sake of having an actual blog post of some length, I will devote a tiny amount of my break to reviewing Duncan Sheik’s new album Whisper House, as I can think of nothing else in particular to talk about at present.
I had the pleasure of seeing Duncan play about half of the songs [...]
VARIOUS ENTERTAINMENTS
Posted in Cinema and Film, Life in general, Music, television on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not much time for blogging these days. Oh well… Here’s another random update from a couple weeks of rather constant entertainment.
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1. Jennifer and I saw the Kronos Quartet at Emory for $5 about nine days ago (thank you student ticket prices). It was really quite strange – an avant garde string quartet is an interesting [...]
Track by track review of “In Rainbows”
Posted in Music on October 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
15 Step: Like the best of the “Amnesiac” album, this is a beat dominated, electronic dance tune. A really solid opener, musically. Though it doesn’t really grab me as a potential single (probably because it feels slightly too much like the band going through the motions), it’s still a solid track. Probably the closest thing [...]
…radiohead…
Posted in Music on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
www.inrainbows.com
It doesn’t disappoint.
And it might be the only time this year that you get to set the price on anything, which in and of itself is worth something.
A twin review of Tori’s “American Doll Posse”
Posted in Music on May 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I will review this album twice. First, track by track. Then in a lump. Read whichever you choose…or both…or neither. This was just me journaling out my thoughts as the album played…
Just to clarify right out of the gate, though I have nothing against the “5 characters” concept album idea, I will make no effort [...]
Random things; that’s all I ever do…
Posted in Life in general, Music, television on April 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The semester is mercifully winding down. The short paper that I had left to do was basically finished at work yesterday. It’s pretty meaningless, but it’s done. (Nothing wrong with phoning one in once in a while.)
The longer paper is started, and shouldn’t be much of a problem.
Hooray for almost freedom.
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Has anyone ever seen “Playtime” [...]
More Tori
Posted in Music on April 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
With the refusal of radio stations to play the previously released song (heaven forbid we say “M.I.L.F.” on the air…), the new plan seems to be to go with the international single, “Bouncing off Clouds.”
You can hear it here.
It’s much more typical Tori. Could’ve been on any album since “From the Choirgirl Hotel.” But it’s [...]
Look, other people aren’t tied to ‘themselves’…
Posted in Music on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hot on the heels of my bitching about Trent Reznor essentially becoming a clone/parody of himself, Tori Amos comes out with this, the first single from “American Doll Posse” called “Big Wheel.”
It’s sort of a garage band version of southern blues rock (except with a piano rather than a guitar, of course). Not really reminiscent of [...]
