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Category Archives: Music
Monday night music
Frank Black and the Catholics, When Will Happiness Find Me Again?
Sunday night music minute
The Duke Spirit:
Saturday night music minute
Some popular music holds up over time. Most does not. These guys do:
Thursday night music minute
Every once in awhile I’m reminded what rock sounds like when it’s done right:
1976 was almost forty years ago. Damn(ed).
Friday night music
Posting a music video on Friday night seems to be among liberal-leaning economics bloggers, so what the heck. I feel I need to offer a meaningful alternative to Krugman, DeLong, and Bernstein though. Don’t get me wrong, I like their choices but there’s other music worth listening to.
Once upon a time, I was a speed-metal fan. This was one of my favorites:
I think one of the reasons I liked Anthrax’s cover so much was that the original was so good:
The Suburbs
The Breeders
Although I’ve never enjoyed The Breeders as much as The Pixies, I thought they did some good stuff. The same friend who recommended the review in my last post also recommended Mountain Battles. I particularly like this song off of it:
The Pixies
People of a certain age should be familiar with The Pixies. (For those of you not familiar, one of the best post-60s rock bands.) A friend pointed me to this review, which is both funny and spot on:
… I have always viewed Doolittle and Surfer Rosa as sister records. Doolittle was the hot, younger sister who was crazy and fun with just enough weirdness to make life interesting. Surfer Rosa is the older sister who is definitely cute but has too many face piercings and shaved half of her head but still dresses kind of slutty and I really want to go up and hit on her but my friend keeps telling me that she has a violent streak and that he heard, this one time, that Surfer Rosa stabbed a dude because she found his pickup line to be insulting …
For me, Pixies lyrics have always had a “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” element to them. The songs they talk about in the review are great. (“Where Is My Mind?” is one of the greatest ever.) I’ve always liked this one a lot too just for how they work with the sounds in the words in the refrain: