Confessions of a Fanboy

I wasn’t sure if I was going to legally download the Radiohead album when it was made available last winter. I knew I wanted the music, but I wasn’t sure about the download. I hate downloaded music.
I guess it has everything to do with the way I’ve listened to music my whole life. [...]

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Yesterday’s R.E.M. obsession was briefly supplanted by an afternoon with The Byrds. It’s been totally obliterated today by a Radiohead obsession. How do I know? I have the same rash I did in college. The most commonly heard phrase of every recent college graduate: “I went through a Radiohead phase in [...]

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We’ll call today “Revenge of the Rickenbacker!” After spending the morning listening to R.E.M.’s Reckoning and a few other classics from their IRS years, I was craving more Rickenbacker rock. I was consumed with a desire to hear some of those bands that made that jangling, chiming guitar sound famous. To my [...]

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The album of the morning is Reckoning. R.E.M. played two from this one last night in Vancouver, B.C. and I admit- I couldn’t instantly recall either of them so this is where my refresher course begins.
The IRS records mostly run together for me. I was just a young future headbanger in Iowa when [...]

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I was all set to work on a long-delayed review of the Counting Crows record today. I’ve been listening to them obsessively all week and I was primed to finally get that done. I was also planning to write up the re-release of Mudhoney’s Superfuzz Bigmuff that I bought earlier this week. [...]

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May 23, 2008 Vancouver, CN
For all of you who’ve grown tired of the nightly obsession over what Springsteen plays each night on his tour, I proudly bring you the latest Fanboy obsession: R.E.M.
The band kicked off their North American tour in support of their new album Accelerate and already I feel I owe a [...]

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Well, it’s better than the first night in Dublin but for reasons that surpass all understanding he’s still playing “Mary’s Place.” I don’t know if he’s trying to fuck with us or what. Maybe no one has told him just how uninspiring that song is! If that be the case, consider this [...]

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It was a light day at work, as far as these things go. I had plenty to do and there was no chance it would all get done today so I stumbled my way through it. My companion today? Counting Crows. Again. Still.
I listened to Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings [...]

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I haven’t been as faithful to the site this year as I’d hoped. I’m glad I didn’t make some contrived New Year’s Resolution because it would have been broken months ago. The “day job” has kept me extraordinarily busy and it’s quite possible the number of days off I’ve had in 2008 can [...]

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They started in “The Promised Land,” but the set list got real ordinary real quick. For those of you who’ve missed my daily chronicles of the Springsteen Magic tour, fear not! We have returned because Bruce & Co. have returned. Yesterday’s show drew on two Springsteen albums I don’t entirely love: [...]

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