Tighter, Tighter – Alive ‘N Kickin’- Tell ‘Em Willie Boy Is Comin’ – Tommy James
- Weeds – Pulp
- You Came, You Saw, You Conquered – The Ronettes
- The Weakest Shade of Blue – Pernice Brothers
- My Saddest Day – Reg Austin
- Wonder – Embrace
- Run to Me – The Bee Gees
- AM 180 – Grandaddy
- Hollywood Blvd – Neil Merryweather
- Teenage Dream – T. Rex
- Ballad of Maxwell Demon – Shudder to Think
- Hey, Hey Helen – ABBA
- Glad and Sorry – The Faces
- The Caves of Jericho – The Band
- Dreams – Slaid Cleaves
- So Long You Pretty Thing – Spiritualized
- Beyond the Sunset – Hank Williams
May Playlist
Another Week Ends: John Carter, Obesity FAILs, Mary Karr on Suffering, Winning!, Friends with Kids, Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball and Community Returns
1. “I am not Jesus, but I have the same initials.” Thus sang Jarvis Cocker on the classic Pulp track “Dishes” (at bottom), and it now looks like he has a new contender to the throne, Tim Riggins himself, Mr. John Carter of Mars. That’s right: Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton’s first live-action feature is […]
Another Week Ends: Online Echo Chambers, Deathbed Regrets, Dylan at the Cross, MJ’s Bad, Singing Spiderman, Penmanship Psychology & Seinfeld
1. A couple of articles that follow-up on the filter bubble phenomenon we posted on last week, both from The NY Times. The first is an editorial by Eli Pariser, “When The Internet Thinks It Knows You” and the second a slightly broader look at the issue, “The Trouble With The Echo Chamber Online.” While […]
Easter Beat: Pulp’s “Sunrise”
The last track off of my favorite Pulp record, their Scott Walker-produced swansong We Love Life, in which Jarvis Cocker and co. pull off a feat that is all too rare in modern music: a convincing song about hope. There’s a lot that could be said of the heavy-duty allusions to death and resurrection, confession […]
Bad Cover Version – Pulp (Matthew 7:15)
In honor of Jarvis Cocker’s new record, Further Complications, which comes out next week, here’s the final, utterly inspired video from his old band Pulp. Now that George Harrison is no longer with us, JC is the rockstar I would most like to meet (with the obvious exception of Axl Rose):
August Playlist
This one’s even more retro than normal. Blame it on the vinyl! 1. Down By The Lazy River – The Osmonds 2. Part Of The Queue – Oasis 3. The Obvious Child – Paul Simon 4. (Terry) Who’re You Gonna Marry? – Paul Westerberg 5. Massachusetts – The Bee Gees 6. Georgia – Boz Scaggs […]
