February is Music Writer Exercise Month #MWE • Page 11

Listening to Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo today.

 

This is cool. I don’t use twitter but ill read people’s reviews

 

NICE!

Superstar Car Wash is my preference from that era, but "Long Way Down", "Naked" and "Name" are as good as anything they ever did.

 

"Name" was the first song I ever learned to play on the piano and sing at the same time.

 

Just pushed play on Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea by PJ Harvey.

 

Like every other Goo album, skip the tracks Johnny doesn't sing on, and that album is perfect

 

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has begun over here for Day 4

 

Master of Puppets for me today

 

cryptograms

 

Lot of Wu Tang in here! That's wild!
I'll make a list and then use Listnd for reviews. This is more manageable than the Listnd challenge I tried last year.

 

1. Tegan and Sara - The Con
2. Converge - Jane Doe
3. Billy Joel - The Stranger
4. Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind
5. Lydia - Illuminate
6. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
7. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
8. Can - Ege Bamyasi
9. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
10. Wire - Pink Flag
11. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
12. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
13. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
14. The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
15. Neu! - Neu!
16. Scott Walker - Scott 4
17. Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader
18. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
19. Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
20. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
21. ESG - Come Away with ESG
22. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
23. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
24. The Beta Band - The Three E.P.'s
25. Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
26. Wilco - Summerteeth
27. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
28. The Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle


Used the Chorus list and then p4k for things I haven't heard.

 

First one that's been a bit of a dud for me. I like Between the Heart and the Synapse quite a bit, and this one really feels the absence of Casey's writing. Without his hooks, they try to compensate by leaning into having three vocalists singing at once without any of them standing out.

 

Yeah Mi Fa Mi has none of the magic that BTHATS had. Such a shame.

 

is that site working for you? i have been getting server errors consistently for a month now lol

 

A+ perfect album

 

I found that if you refresh the page 3-4 times it works. Totally not worth it but I’ll use it for this

 

THIS is why Superstar is the best. Both their songs are excellent AND on the same page stylistically. Takac didn’t catch back up again until Gutterflower, where he has one of the album highlights

The big problem with Dizzy Up the Girl is they were progressing at different speeds. Johnny was writing some of the greatest songs of all time, and Robby was stuck an album or two behind him

 

I know that’s the purpose of this exercise but I am flabbergasted you haven’t heard that Eric B and Rakim one

Also very excited you’ll be listening to the SECOND-best Billy Joel album. :ducks:

 

Paid in Full is the "classic" classic, I just haven't gotten around to this one. I have a blind spot for a lot of the late 80s/early 90s NYC rap, never did anything for me when I was younger.

 

Tegan and Sara starting now. One of my friends had "Walking With a Ghost" as their Myspace song for a while and it created an aversion to their vocals, so I never checked them out.

 

It’s not QUITE as perfect as Paid in Full but it’s not that far behind

 

idk why i had the misconception of this band that i did. this was extremely my shit.

 

Title track on this is the first to grab me. Good song.

 

Moving into a different direction with Garth Brooks' Ropin' the Wind.