Confessions of a Fanboy

I’ve always liked that bit in the Foo Fighters’ song “All My Life” where Dave Grohl screams “On to the next one.”  I tend to be that way too much with my musical listening.  I’ll obsess over an album or a song or an artist and then I’ll either lose interest or be drawn to [...]

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This, boys and girls, is why the music industry is in the toilet. Even when/if they get it right, they still fuck it up.

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And in the silence…
Yes, the world has stopped spinning for five minutes and I’m filled with enough energy and inspiration to commit words to page. TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried is off to visit her family and I’m home from work with nothing but three cats, 1,000 CDs, and some time. This is not a bad way [...]

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I’ve now had a chance to glance over the Grammy nominations a couple times. *Sigh* Why do I do this to myself? I guess because no one else will let me do it to them.
I know, I know… The Grammys haven’t been relative in – what’s this, the 50th annual? – fifty [...]

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The good news? I didn’t jump to any conclusions or make any snap judgments about the new Foo Fighters album unless you count mocking the title just a little.
The bad news? I can’t really remember very much about it. It didn’t make a big initial impression with me.
What does that mean? [...]

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I bought the new Foo Fighters CD last night and as I was driving home with it, I was struck by something.
Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace might be the single most pretentious-sounding album title I’ve ever heard. Dave Grohl, a guy whose public persona suggests he has the IQ of Del Monte Fruit Cocktail, [...]

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The daily scorecard of what I listened to, provided as a public service. See anything you like? Anything you’ve forgotten? What did you listen to?
Girlfriend | Sweet, Matthew | Time Capsule|The Best Of Matthew Sweet 1990-2000
Today | The Smashing Pumpkins | Greatest Hits|Smashing Pumpkins
Creep | Radiohead | Pablo Honey
Ansaphone [Demo] | Pulp [...]

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I’ve spent too much time this week watching movies and listening to podcasts and that’s why there haven’t been too many Let’s Talk About My iPod features this week. Today was more centered on music and I finally have enough songs to warrant posting one.
Obviously Luscious Jackson, Jeff Buckley, and U2 made the big [...]

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More news from the world of my iPod!
We already covered where I started this morning: Deftones, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Zwan. The day got a little more varied as things went along: Radiohead, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and then I set one of my ’90s playlists on random and a lot [...]

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I don’t know why LTAMi has been MIA for so long (that’s two abbreviations), but it’s time to bring it back ASAP (cool, three).
Today’s installment finds us revisiting the works of Brendan Benson, Peter Karp, Jimmy Burns, and some old favorites in the form of Garbage, Foo Fighters, Satriani, and Muddy Waters.

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