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Winamp Friday: Gene Himself
With the recent passing of Gene Hackman, I’d like to revisit this Winamp Wednesday entry from a previous version of the WBL. Here’s some thoughts on… Robyn Hitchcock, “Don’t Talk to Me About Gene Hackman” Hidden away at the end of the 1999 LP Jewels for Sophia, “Don’t Talk to Me About Gene Hackman” is peak Robyn Hitchcock.…
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Winamp Wednesday: Just a Little Trophy
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing feature spotlighting MP3 favorites from the wild-west days of the early internet: the B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Hoku, “Another Dumb Blonde” We’re a long way from “Tiny Bubbles”. Teen pop is a weird thing. There’s a disconnect between what you’re supposed to like at twelve…
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Winamp Wednesday: No Turning Back Now
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing feature spotlighting MP3 favorites from the wild-west days of the early internet: the B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Utada Hikaru, “Can You Keep a Secret?” Hit it off like this. The internet has always been a series stubbornly closed-off garden walls. Even before moments like the…
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Winamp Wednesday: Always Mandy
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing feature spotlighting Napster favorites from the wild-west days of the early internet. This summer we’re covering the best of 1999: the B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Mandy Moore, “Candy” Not to be a full contrarian here, but the answer to Britney Vs. Christina was always Mandy. All…
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Winamp Wednesday: I Get Up Sometimes
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing feature spotlighting Napster favorites from the wild-west days of the early internet. This autumn we’re covering the best of 1999: the B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Vertical Horizon, “We Are” “There’s no way you know this band”, he said, but I had been listening to their new…
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Winamp Wednesday: My Guns and My Vanity
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing feature spotlighting Napster favorites from the wild-west days of the early internet. This summer we’re covering the best of 1999: the B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Luscious Jackson, “Ladyfingers” Underneath the armor is another good girl. How much have we forgotten? How much do we discard in…
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Winamp Wednesday: A Well-Timed Smile
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing celebration of all the songs I loaded into that music player in the wild-west days of the MP3. B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Jawbreaker, “Save Your Generation (Live)” I was originally going to call this website “Dear You”, but I wanted something more inscrutable that Pitchfork…
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Winamp Wednesday: Make Me a Promise
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing series about songs I fed into the music player Winamp in the wild-west days of the MP3. B-Sides, live shows, off-air recordings, classics, and today’s track… Marvelous 3, “Freak of the Week” All hail Butch Walker, who could make the metalheads cry. Let’s go back in time about twenty-five years…
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Dangerous Angels and Renegade Hearts: In Praise of Tom Prasada-Rao
When people who knew this sort of thing talked about Tom Prasada-Rao, they invariably referred to him as a musician’s musician. It wasn’t because his songs were overly clever–although they were very clever–or because they were complicated in any overbearing way. Tom simply wrote songs that you wish you had written yourself, songs that seemed…
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Looking to the Stars for Answers: Astro Lounge at 25
Smash Mouth were like The Doors if Jim Morrison had any sense of whimsy. “Walking on the Sun” appeared out of nowhere in 1997 with Ray Manzarek organ riffs and a cynical look back at Woodstock-bound Hippies and their No Nukes descendants. That song smacked out of radios the world over for the entire year,…
