Just let me forget and die The Simple Minds are an easy target, because their essence and typical audience is already manifested within their bandname: it’s mind-numbing music for simple minds. But this band and its pathetic tunes show a shockingly frequent recurrence in my life, which I do not understand- but it fucks me …
Nick Cave‘s newest album and latest career is a prime example of how much the wish to be effortlessly edgy, hip, and ‘dark’ with a hint of depth, blurs the senses and judgement of listeners. We start with the cover. It reminds me of an experience that I had earlier in 2019: while walking through …
Still can’t get his face out of my mind. All these years later. I can still see him there… Daring me to react. It’s personal. Throughout the 1980s and into the 90s you could depend on only two things in the United States: A foreign policy of relentless military intervention into the affairs of sovereign nations across the …
It’s a mishmash of rubbish Keith Richards If Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the perfect soundtrack of the 60’s as Beatles fans and demented rock critiques all around the world would make us want to believe, then this decade must have been really horrible. It is the most horrible, worst, and most overrated …
Can you actually call this Iron Butterfly? Wunderkind Erik Braunn may be back after missing the last outing, and Ron Bushy is still competently hitting drum heads with two sticks, but glaringly missing are Doug Ingle and Lee fuckin’ Dorman, two of the most talented (if not the only talented) members of the band. Gone …
Way back in a rather tumultuous year called 2001 there was an album with the title of Get Ready. It was released by these guys who called themselves New Order. New Order had not released an album since 1993. New Order had some seriously huge dance singles in the 1980s with “Blue Monday,” “Confusion,” “Temptation,” and “The …
Not much is known about Canada. It lies to the north of the USA, shrouded in forests and sparsely populated. Its primary export is logs. Its people keep themselves to themselves, stoically going about their business in a quiet, undemonstrative way; paying their taxes ungrudgingly, and voting for moderate political parties. It would be mysterious …
