Archive for the 'Music' Category

REM To Release 25th Anniversary Edition of Murmur

 Twenty-five years??  Man, that’s disturbing.  If I’d purchased a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of a record, back when I first started getting into music, it would’ve been from the pre-rock era. 
So, theoretically, a budding young hipster of today might look at this iconic album the same way we looked at Nat King Cole, or Patti Page, [...]

DVR Alert! Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

On Tuesday evening PBS will air the BBC documentary Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives.  It is an excellent film, about Eels frontman Mark Everett’s search for information about his deceased, math genius father.  I know, it sounds a little odd, and it is.  But I saw it prior to an Eels show in Philadelphia earlier [...]

My Favorite Beatles Solo Albums

 While driving to work yesterday, I started thinking about Beatles solo albums and which was my favorite from each band member.
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I was trying to resist thinking like a music critic (which I am not), and just determine my favorite records from John, Paul, George, and Ringo. That is to say, which ones I listen to [...]