The baby hand picture. THE BABY HAND PICTURE! PRE-S/T ANNIE FOLLOWERS UNITE!!!!

Now, THAT is an example of a psyche you'll want to be VERY selective when exploring….

I make a point of using every opportunity I possibly can to point out that women have wasted no time channeling the same energy that has been fueling the last decade of feminism into a musical culture that perfectly assimilates the essential notions of Progress In Popular Music -as previously defined by the 1960s/70s-…

A completely voluntary consumer of news registering their own indifference who feels no shame conflating 13 charges of sexual assault with a subjective lack of entertainment value, is leveling the latter accusation specifically at Hannibal Burress, and is doing so in the guise of Tina Belcher……I…..think I've…..I think…

And of course, the actual point of this exercise -that this is accurately representative of the amount of individual personality they had to begin with -occurs to exactly no one.

Change that to Mott The Hoople's "Roll Away The Stone" and you have me on board.

In the same spirit, I would add The Pretty Things' "Come See Me" and The Sonics' "Strychnyne" to that list. Or at least, that PLAYlist.

"Rewarding" and "Complex" are not the same thing. "Actor" is almost incomprehensibly more complex than "Marry Me". Take this simple test: Play "Marry Me" and "Actor" front-to-back again. Which of the two has a song that changes key fifteen times? Remember, this is MUSIC. When you call it "complex" without…

Well, I suppose you could argue it's less melodic than Whokill in places…..but then again I wonder if it's just harmonically murkier and (EVEN!) more precussive. I honestly don't know what accounts for the difference in effect, but I hear a burning intensity in it. The free, open verse in the middle of "Find A New…

The last album was largely slow-building theme-and-variation and the songs rarely strayed from their original key centers. "Gansta" and "Riotriot" contained more sophisticated elements, such as free-time acapella sections and a bit of musique concrete at the margins, but this was generally the exception to the rule.…

If by "pales i comparison" you mean "Is hard to even know quite how to enjoy yet because it's a decade ahead of the rest of pop music and purposefully challenges all of our society's preconceptions about how art is experienced", then yes.

Centuries from now, we will equate our current, unilaterally agreed-upon conclusion that we are no longer a 'monoculture' with the assertions of Earth's flatness distinctive to ancient cultures. At no other time in the modern age has popular culture been so narrowly defined as it is right now. And the reason for this…

Scott Walker's first four studio albums do everything musical theater SHOULD do, but doesn't. Also, Steely Dan had a good run with musical theater - type ditties, most notably "Any World (That I'm Welcome To)" and just about every song on Can't Buy A Thrill. (Which, incidentally, is also the best album ever made. Try…

One of the clearest signs that someone is well-informed about cultural history is that they recognize that most of what the 80s gets POSITIVE credit for really happened in the 70s.

It's just scientific FACT!

Early Roxy Music and Eno, right before and right after the split - and music from 1973, the year when prog, glam, punk, shock, funk, neo-jazz….basically all of rock'n'roll smashed into itself so hard it came out as this creamy sauce of pure credibility and craft, so unified by its difference that it almost reinvented…

What Tune-Yards and St. Vincent have in common, and the secret reason everyone is comparing them, even though they're completely different, is that, although they scan as "Indie-Rock" and are significantly influenced by music from the 80s to the present, their underlying craft is firmly rooted in 60s/70s art-rock -…

"Born Again" by DIANA! My fellow Toronto natives somehow figured out how to sound like late Roxy Music, but with the integrity and edge of early Roxy Music. It's what the 80s SHOULD have sounded like!