
Long time MLD readers will remember my brother Ryan's regular " TEN4SEVEN " series. Each and every week for a year he hunted high and low to find the 10 finest songs, until finally bowing out a spent husk of a man back in April 2010. Now he's resurrecting his blog " Stop Me If You Think Youve Heard This One Before " with a broader focus on popular culture. So if you're going to return why not do it with a bang and declare the 50 best songs of all time? Why not? Because its a ridiculous [...]
If I ran MTV, instead of that trash they air all day, every day, it would look something like this. We’d start with a little chestnut from Spiritualized: And then we’d get fresher with some Camera Obscura: Then I’d slow things down with some [...]
And with its last dying breadth, it uttered “And I am a writer, writer of fictions…” Oddly, it isn’t all that rare an occurrence when I’m offered something “that fell off the back of a truck”. As it turns out, I know a guy who knows a guy, a relationship that, coupled with my ’04 fantasy football winnings, helped to create the perfect storm known as iPod ownership. It probably isn’t wholly necessary for me to tell you that music-listening-wise, the past almost-three years have been the best of my life. Countless songs and stories, each one [...]
I had a long drive today so on the way out the door I grabbed a stack of cds, one of them just happened to pull out The Abbey Road EP by Spiritualized which I haven't listened to in a...