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Sinead's "The Last Day of Our Acquaintance": A Kiss-Off Into the Air
Sinead’s speaker in “The Last Day of Our Acquaintance” wears her heart on her sleeve—divulging the entire history of a relationship in four and a half…
Jul 31
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Townes Van Zandt's "Waiting Around to Die"--A Dance with Death
Townes Van Zandt is the anti-John Denver. Both countrified folky types came of age around the same time–the early 70’s–in a wave of singer-songwriters…
Jul 24
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In the Mouth a Desert: Pavement and the Id
Pavement’s lyrics can lean to the incomprehensibly silly and/or juvenile–as a result you shouldn’t be blamed for viewing Pavement as mostly a band about…
Jul 18
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Tricky's Christiansands--Master Your Language
Thanks for reading The Feels ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (aka Tricky) is a figure…
Jul 12
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June 2023
Hopeless Hope: Alex G's Devastating Portrait of the Fentanyl Crisis
Alex G (Sandy) is a true throwback. All grit and nose to the music grindstone, he keeps churning out songs and albums, year after year. Flying under the…
Jun 26
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Infinity Repeating: Daft Punk, Nietzsche and the Loop of Life
I’m not one to bow down to an artist or see them as some kind of invisible force of nature. This is applicable to John Lee Hooker, the Beatles, the…
Jun 23
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Yo La Tengo's Cherry Chapstick: Male Suburban Doldrums
Yo La Tengo Is “Cherry Chapstick” the funniest serious-sounding song ever? Or is it a song sadly bemoaning lack of skills in the dating department…
Jun 20
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Unsuccessful Blues, the Consolation of Lightnin' Hopkins
“Unsuccessful Blues” Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1949 To state the obvious, one facet of the blues is that it provides consolation for failure and rotten luck…
Jun 5
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May 2023
Walk Like an Egyptian, Or Else!
As the famous quote goes—to paraphrase—is writing about music a nonsensical act equivalent to dancing about architecture? We should be so lucky. Perhaps…
May 30
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Next Lifetime by Erykah Badu, a Beautiful Consolation Prize
Erykah Badu “Next Lifetime.” 1996 Baduizm Erykah Badu’s shtick is, and most likely always will be, of the Afro-new-agey type. Retro-60’s early 70’s–the…
May 29
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The Mercy Seat: Nick Cave's Theological Masterpiece
Nick Cave “The Mercy Seat” 1988, Tender Prey At a time when the popular radio airwaves were saturated by the likes of Warrant, Poison and Motley Crue…
May 23
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February 2023
The Markle Sparkle: Dry Cleaning on the Royals
One of my favorite bands to surface over the past years is Dry Cleaning—an oddball English crew with a sound like no other. Florence Shaw’s spoken…
Feb 6
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