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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Must a Post-Rockist Embrace Classical? pt. 2: Cover Songs

By Scotter | Published: September 30, 2007
Glenn Gould-”Liszt’s Piano Transcription of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, First Movement” (from The Art of Glenn Gould) The Flaming Lips-”Can’t Get You Out of my Head” (from The Fight Test EP) In this segment of “Must a Post-Rockist Embrace Classical?” we look at the cover song through the lens of classical music. The Rockist’s greatest pet [...]
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M.I.A. – Kala

By Todd | Published: September 28, 2007
M.I.A. – 20 Dollar M.I.A. – Paper Planes (from Kala) I didn’t care much for Arular. In fact, you might say that I felt jilted. Personally affronted, even. As if M.I.A., Diplo, and a cabal of hipper-than-thou Chicago tastemakers had secretly convened to conjure a record that was so unmistakably bad that you had to [...]
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Handbags and Gladrags

By Joshua | Published: September 25, 2007
 (This is the continuation of a defense of Rod Stewart (the ’70s version, anyway) that I’ve been working on. Basically, I hold that if you can look past his “Hot Legs” phase of the 1980s and the current “Songbook” phase the old crooner’s in right now, there’s no getting around the greatness of his ’70s catalogue.) [...]
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Taken By Trees – “Lost and Found”

By Todd | Published: September 14, 2007
Taken By Trees – Lost and Found (from Open Field, single version) Sometimes the simplest sentiments can leave the deepest impressions. “I don’t want to settle down; I don’t want to leave this town,” Victoria Bergsman sings, her gentle warble capturing the delicate balance between yearning and melancholy, between the wish to be spirited away [...]
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Sorry

By Todd | Published: September 13, 2007
(photo credit) Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Honey, Where You Been So Long? (from I Stand Alone) Feist – So Sorry (from The Reminder) The Essex Green – Sorry River (from The Long Goodbye) Bix Beiderbecke – Sorry (from At the Jazz Band Ball) The Magnetic Fields – I’m Sorry I Love You (from 69 Love [...]
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