So boring I forgot what I was going to type | the collected Facebook War On Drugs vitriol
This one started quite innocuously. A simple and well-liked comment on Facebook, Fuck man. Has anyone actually listened to The War On Drugs? Christ, they’re bad. I hear Mark Kozelek is a big fan. I think Kozelek is probably jealous cos they’re the only band alive more boring than him. Saw ’em at the Zoo, […]
Lesley Gore R.I.P.
Feminist icon and inspirational pop singer Lesley Gore has died in a New York hospital, aged 68, from lung cancer. I love Lesley Gore’s music. She’s always one of my go-to references when I want to refer to a certain type of 6os girl group/teenage heartbreak music – indeed, I mentioned her in yesterday’s Song of […]
The return of Everett True | 120. The Wendy Darlings
I never do this. Or rather, I’ve never done this before. I’ve sometimes reviewed the same album three days in a row. I’ve sometimes featured the same person a few days in a row – usually in sad circumstances, or when they’re in different bands. I’ve always held off from running two Songs of the […]
The return of Everett True | 119. Dawn Richard
I’m consistent, at least. Scratch that. Much as I know folk like their comfort zones, their safe places, their writers they can turn to again and again knowing they’ll always receive similar advice, similar opinions – I’ve never really seen that consistency is a virtue. Maybe if you’re a middle distance runner. Maybe if you’re […]
The return of Everett True | 118. Sunday Painters
Most the time, I have no idea what’s going on here. I was scrolling through recent acquisitions on my iTunes, playing and discarding songs within a matter of seconds. I often don’t recognise names, that’s not how it works. I was drawn to an album by a band called Sunday Painters: it had one track […]
The return of Everett True | 117. The Wendy Darlings
This one has a little of ace unforgotten post-Riot Grrrl 90s U.K. indie band Prolapse about its intro before lapsing into full-on pop. It reminds me of former Brisbane sweethearts The Go Violets in its shouty melody, but that’s natural. Enthusiasm over ability, any day. Actually, my bad. Prolapse were way more shouty and turbulant […]
Who was it that said pop and politics shouldn’t mix? | 20 incredible Nina Simone songs
As voted for by my ‘friends’ on Facebook… This isn’t my personal list. You can tell that. The top entry is one of the very few occasions where I prefer another version to Nina’s. Who was it that said pop and politics shouldn’t mix? A white man, no doubt. 1. Strange Fruit “Slavery has never been […]
Smells like industry manure | 30 terrible versions of Teen Spirit
Vote for your least favourite. 1. Olivia Lawson Is she crying? Please God, tell me she isn’t crying. 2. Daniel Johns Once a smug self-congratulatory Chris Martin wannabe twathead, always a smug self-congratulatory Chris Martin wannabe twathead. 3. Miley Cyrus She rocks like Courtney Love. 4. Imagine Dragons …because Nirvana always were a crap metal […]
The return of Everett True | 116. Charli XCX
Pouting white bread pop star Charli XCX has made less than an impression on me so far, but if you think I can resist this – a Josie And The Pussycats-style punk cover of one of 2014’s finest pop songs – then you are crazy. There’s such energy, such an infectious delight. The handclaps! The spontaniety! The […]
