April 20, 2009
Alphabet Rock
Amid my iTunes library are hundreds of artists and songs that shouldn't be allowed in the iTunes general population. When a respectable album comes to an end these songs barge in and cause wanton embarrassment if guests are present.I think this once happened with Enya.
With this phenomenon in mind, I went in search of iTunes to find trouble spots. I couldn't really find them, but I did discover places where awesome bands fall back to back, alphabetically. To wit:
Clap Your Hands Say YeahI also discovered two anomalies that don't quite fit the awesome-to-terrible or great-to-shit molds:
The Clash
Caetano Veloso
Cake
Donovan
The Doors
Juny
Jurassic 5
Velvet Underground
Ventures
Yardbirds
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zombies
Zutons
Eagle Eye CherryIn other music business, I have been enjoying the latest releases by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "It's Blitz!" and Of Montreal: "Skeletal Lamping." They are both superb at setting moods, albeit disparate moods.
Eagles of Death Metal
Scarlett Johansson
Scat Man
Also, I heard a rumor about Neutral Milk Hotel reuniting at the forthcoming fucking awesome Merge Records anniversary show.
by Tony at 9:50 PM |
6 Comments:
Scarlett Johansson hosted the latest SNL with Amy Pohler. Oh my God.
I think I have the same reaction to "It's Blitz" as you did about the newer Of Montreal stuff: decent but not the reason why I thought they were such a good band in the first place. (It made me want to listen to Fever To Tell, if anything.)
Although the first five songs are really good. And I've had "Heads Will Roll" on repeat in my head for about a week.
(I just realized that this whole situation begs the question of why Enya is even on your iTunes in the first place...going through a Celtic new-age phase?)
I dare not reveal, in any sort of critical or joking way, who might have added such music as Enya to my collection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question#Colloquial_usage
Sorry Jack, I had to.
"Although proponents of the traditional meaning will criticize this formally incorrect usage, it has nonetheless come into widespread use and in informal contexts may actually be the more common use of the term. The phrases circular reasoning, circular logic, and circular arguments have come to be used in places where logicians and philosophers would tend to use 'beg the question'."
Fucker.
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