Confessions of a Fanboy

Welcome to the Buyer’s Remorse column for 2007. I called my shot and named my Top 10 Albums of the Year, and already I’m pissed about all the great records I didn’t get to mention. Fortunately there’s an easy remedy for that. In no particular order (unless otherwise noted), here are a [...]

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I had a very 11 day, revisiting several albums that dominated his late mid-to-late ’90s listening. Garbage, The Ghost of Tom Joad, Passengers, a little bit of New Adventures in Hi-Fi, and a couple tunes from PopMart-era U2. I also sandwiched in some Nu-Blues songs — a meaningless term that somehow makes sense [...]

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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?
Further On (Up The Road) | Springsteen, Bruce | Rising, The
Apeman | The Kinks | The Kink Kronikles
King Kong | The Kinks | The Kink Kronikles
Mr. Pleasant | [...]

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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 can’t possibly tell you how much fun I’ve had reliving the recorded works of one of my heroes, Joe Satriani, and in particular his most famous and finest album Surfing With the Alien. For starters, I’m thrilled I’ve actually managed to keep this little miniseries updated each day. It’s also been fun [...]

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Picture it: Bettendorf, Iowa, 1988. A scrawny, 14-year old kid is missing baskets in his driveway with an older neighbor. The garage door is open, a cheap Emerson AM/FM/cassette deck sitting on the garage floor.

We were shooting around and I probably started popping off about this guitarist or that band – I [...]

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Once again I have let the 7 Days of Satriani post slip until the very last minute. This time letting it slip until this late at night actually serves as an inspiration for the post.
One of the things I loved about Surfing With the Alien right away was it’s potential as a sleep aid. [...]

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The 7 Days of Satriani rolls along, and I thought today we would combine this special feature with one of the mainstays of Fanboy, Let’s Talk About My iPod.
These 10 songs are the Satriani songs I’ve listened to most often according to my iPod. A couple of notes: these 10 songs are not [...]

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10:57:45 PM… one hour and three minutes to finish today’s 7 Days of Satriani entry and I don’t have the first clue what I want to say. Smaller mouths and lesser minds might find this an insurmountable challenge. For a Fanboy, it’s nothing – nothing, I say!
In college, I learned that 93% of [...]

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Fanboy Post #300, a major milestone. Pretty cool, huh?
As I was driving in to work this morning, I realized I had forgotten to reset my Let’s Talk About My iPod playlist on my iPod. I realized this right about the time I put Guster’s Lost and Gone Forever in my CD player to [...]

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