Weekly Album of the Week on Hiatus

Hello all! There will be no Weekly Albums Of The Week from now until Friday December 16th. The reason for this is that I have too much to do at school and little time in which to do it.

I am also planning on making a quarterly mix. So expect your christmas presents (for all those who have posted on this site who I am personally aquainted with) to be along this vein.

Warts and Crutches...

Pixletwin

The Worst Christmas Song Of All Time!

I love Christmas songs. I just joined BMG and all 7 cd's I got were Christmas themed (Mel Torme, Ella Fitgerald, Garrison Keillor, etc...). So you should know I am not the sort of person who hates Christmas music.

That being said, the last few years on a local radio station (106.5 KOSY) they begin playing Christmas music the day after Halloween, and most of the stuff they play is quality (every now and then they play crummy Celene Dion or some Michael Bolton, but they do alot of the traditional stuff too so I can listen past the crap). There is this one song that every time I hear it I want to bludgeon, decapitate, smash, and cudgle [sic?] everyone and everything in site.

This song is The Christmas Shoes by some over-the-top sappy country singer who I admire his technique, because how he could sing this without laughing uncontrolably is beyond my imagination! This song is the sappiest song, I can just imagine the writers cackling like hyenas at the thought of how many stupid people (read: country music's target audience) will sob, cry, and buy this piece of garbage.

I apologize if I offended anyone. I needed to vent. I HATE THIS SONG!!! GRRRRRRRR

Weekly Album Of The Week #16

Some albums become so fused with certain parts of a person's life, that it is difficult to seperate the critical from the sentimental. This fall is the 10th aniversary of the pinnacle of my youth.

In 1995 I was freshly 21 years old, healthy, active, and in love for the first time. My days were filled with writing and recording songs with my friends, drawing and painting, driving around with friends till 3 A.M., and generally enjoying life and enjoying, what John Lennon called, the hunger of youth.

The album that was in constant rotation during this period was Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by the Smashing Pumpkins. The album opens with a piano track which makes me think of driving home from work just as the sun is going down and seems to be contemplating and anticipating what exciting things are to follow. Every song on this album penetrated me so deeply, that I felt like Billy Corgan was singing about my life (and I know what a cheesy cliche that is, but there it is anyway).

Mellon Collie was the Pumpkins masterpiece and sadly the last album by them worth owning. Every track on this album is deeply rooted in the sepia toned memories of what I believed life to have been about, namely: Freedom, Beauty, Truth, and above all Love. Though youth eventually gives way to school, kids, minivans, and work, I still believe...

If you don't own this album, repent and sin no more.

Superman Is A Dick!

Check out this and other authentic comic book covers at SuperDickery. The covers get more and more surreal.

Thanks to Nate for the heads-up.

Mike Love Is One Pathetic Loser!

Mike is the Pathetic looking guy on the top wearing a green hat to hide his lack of brain.

In lieu of my Weekly Album of the Week I bring you this sad story. The ugly meanspirited, green eyed monster of a jealous and balding banal rock dinosaur Mike Love has crawled out from his place of yuckiness to file suit against Brian Wilson . Mike says that the release of Brian Wilson's SMiLE has adversely effected Mike's waning career and tarnished the Beach Boys name (like the London Symphony would be tarnished by having to play Beethoven's 9th Symphony...). He is also seeking damages because Brian authorized a free give away where 2.6 million copies of a Beach Boys compilation were given away in a British publication.

Mike Love is seriously in need of a high-cholonic and a hair plug. Not just that, but Mike's seemingly unending jealousy of Brian's genius and his need to bully others is something that truly makes me sick.

Check out the story here.





Mike Wilson in '67 explaining to Brian why surf ditties are better than brian's rock symphony, SMiLE (Weekly Album of the Week #6)