Confessions of a Fanboy

Fair is fair:  I’m not enamored with this set list.  Sure, they played “Accelerate” from the new record, “Drive,” “Driver 8″ and “Fall On Me.”  I love those songs.  I love “The Great Beyond” and “I’ve Been High.”  There are a lot of great songs in this set, but there are a few too many [...]

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I woke up with a line in my head that I couldn’t immediately place.  I ran the line through my head three or four times, trying like hell to place the song and artist:
“…and I’m feeling no pain…”
I ran the line through my head a couple more times and finally it clicked:  Bruce Sprinsgteen’s “Lucky [...]

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I mentioned earlier this month I bought a copy of NIN’s The Downward Spiral, thinking I’d give it another chance in light of how I’ve come to like some the more recent work Reznor has been doing. In addition to wondering how I might gauge TDS in comparison to Ghosts and The Slip, I [...]

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Your Mama is so fat she fell in love and broke it! Oh, yeah?  You’re so dumb you could fuck up a free gift! That second one doesn’t have the same zing as the first, in part because I am dumb enough to find a way to fuck up a free gift. Trent [...]

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We have ourselves a wild one here, boys and girls- an S.Rod special.  “Turn You Inside-Out,” an S.Rod favorite, was one of many deep album cuts and rarities performed in Udine, Italy.
“Sitting Still,” and “Maps and Legends,” particularly the former, might be the only other songs that qualify as “rarities.”  Actually, “Accelerate” has become something [...]

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I will sing a new song.  I’m not listening to “Prairie Wedding” or “Why Can’t You Be?” this morning.  I’m not planning on listening to them this afternoon, either.  I’m going in a different direction and that direction is home. Back Door Slam’s “Come Home” would be in the running for song of the [...]

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Nothing earthshattering in this set list, and that now becomes the challenge to an extent for R.E.M.  When you’ve played damn near everything in your catalog (save for “Monty Got a Raw Deal” and “Shiny Happy People”) there aren’t many stunners left to go to.  That doesn’t mean there’s nothing great in this set- there [...]

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Short attention span.  Tunnel vision.  Lack of imagination.  Obsession. All of the above. I realized that, despite having bought nine CDs this week I’ve actually spent most of the week listening to two fucking songs:  “Why Can’t You Be?” by Shelby Lynne and “Prairie Wedding” by Mark Knopfler.  I’m all about value.  I [...]

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Brian Wilson famously wrote “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times.”  I hear him working.  I don’t really feel that way about my own era.  I like when I am, but I have my own variation on that sentiment. I’m just not in the mood for today. I don’t want to be dead.  [...]

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How to say nothing in an hour or less… that’s the subtitle for last night’s B-Sides Concept Album.  Well, that and $29.99.  I blathered on for an hour managing to reference several topics without actually saying anything.  11 joined the program from his death bed and managed to steal the show.  It’s not the first [...]

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