Confessions of a Fanboy

The plan was to wade through the ample stack of review material sitting on my desk and start doing some writing about it. That stack started to look a bit intimidating, and I got lazy so I called an audible. I went to the store and bought a copy of Pearl Jam’s Live […]

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“Like I Need a Hole in My Head” was one of the first columns I conceived when I began planning Fanboy. “Like I Need a Hole in My Head,” nicked from a Cracker song, was conceived of because of news like a Spice Girls reunion tour.
This cannot be happening! How can there be […]

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The last notes of “Yellow Ledbetter” have just played. I’ve finished the 7-CD box set, Live at the Gorge 05/06. It’s taken me nearly a week to plow through all that music. So what’s the first thing I queue up on the iPod now that I’ve finished it all?
More live Pearl Jam.
I’m […]

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On this day in 1961, Gary “U.S.” Bonds’ “Quarter to Three” was the #1 song in America. I don’t have his version of the song on my iPod. What I do have is the killer live version Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band did back in ‘75 at the Hammersmith-Odeon in London on […]

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That is one of my favorite song titles ever. If you haven’t bought Icky Thump, we’re not friends.
I’ve now listened to the first two shows of the Pearl Jam box (five discs in all). That second show is even more fabulous than the first. I’m eager to listen to the third show […]

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Welcome to Camp Fanboy, boys and girls. Today is a good day.
I don’t know exactly why I woke up with my Good Mood Personality at the helm this morning, but I am pleased today. I am choosing to attribute all or most of this good mood to the tremendous amount of fabulous […]

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We leave The Gorge long enough to visit Sir Ryan of Adams and his first new release since 2005. The fact that Easy Tiger is his first album since 2005 is significant and means nothing at all simultaneously. Adams released three albums in ‘05!
I’ve listened all the way through the record twice now. […]

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Every once in awhile, I take requests.
Regular commenter and fellow Member of Mondo El Bicho asked about the set lists for the three shows that comprise the marvelous new Pearl Jam box set. Here they are:

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I just got the new Pearl Jam box set at Circuit City. 7 CDs, 100 songs, $29.99. That, kids, is fucking value.
I’m in the process of ripping the seven discs to my iPod. I’m listening to Disc 1 of the first of three shows, the September 2005 show. I love the […]

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I wonder if listening to the computerized math rock of Thom Yorke will make me smarter…
I listened through OK Computer while working on some code this morning. I’m now revisiting The Eraser as I continue onward with said code. It’s brilliant stuff, really. Time to see if I’m better able to “Analyse.”
A […]

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