Oakland County 4 lyfe. I grew up here, but my wife and I just moved back after a five year sojourn in Southern California. There's grass and water and actual living animals here, so it is a vast improvement.
Looking at our music comparisons, I see we own almost nothing in common. And we just can't seem to get together on those Billy Joel singles. But we're solid on Bowie, and that, sir, is a start.
Oh great thanks! I love Roxy Music and thanks it was a good game, although i am more of a Yankees fan and would have preferred to see them win! But Royals did an amazing job and showed Mets a thing or two about Baseball!
Also: the Tigers did a pretty awesome job of falling apart in my absence. Which is a shame, but hey -- it's pretty fun to watch teams in rebuild-mode, in my experience.
I am really happy they didn't record a reunion album. It might not be any good which proves they are an incredible band with a great discography and it is even more mind blowing all of their music sounds like 80s music and it was mostly all recorded in the 70s...just perfect!
For baseball i have gone back and forth i love and hate it...i understand why some people would feel the same that you do!
Wonder was greeeaaat.It was a four hour show. His voice is still sounds terrific, and he has a huge, crazy-talented band. He did Songs in its entirety, and a medley of other hits at the end (along with assorted weirdness variegated throughout the show. There was a harmonica solo that must have gone on for fifteen minutes, hitting every patriotic song Wonder knew how to play). Some preachiness and platitudes, but that's why we love him.
Nice list regarding music-centric literature. I'm currently reading Simon Reynolds' 'Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984,' and Lloyd Bradley's 'This is Reggae Music' - plus I just started Peter Shapiro's 'Turn the Beat Around.' The former two works are pretty amateurishly-written, I reckon. From what I've read of Shapiro so far, he has a better feel for putting together a compelling narrative.
If you haven't already, you should read 'Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation' by Jeff Chang. My favourite book about music, no question. He traces the origins of hip hop to the sound system culture in Jamaica, and then proceeds to elaborate on the development of the music in New York during the late-twentieth-century. Can't recommend it highly enough.
It's certainly easy to overlook shortcomins when something has sentimental value to you. That's why 'Space Jam' is one of my favourite films!
Jeff Chang's book on hip hop doesn't necessarily break new ground in terms of what it has to say. He just has a fantastic capacity for storytelling. I actually ended up appreciating his discussions about the other elements of hip hop culture - graffiti and breakdancing - as much as his treatment of rapping and DJing. After reading Chang, it became clear to me that analyses of the history of hip hop are also analyses of race relations in late twentieth-century America.
Looking at our music comparisons, I see we own almost nothing in common. And we just can't seem to get together on those Billy Joel singles. But we're solid on Bowie, and that, sir, is a start.
For baseball i have gone back and forth i love and hate it...i understand why some people would feel the same that you do!
Nice list regarding music-centric literature. I'm currently reading Simon Reynolds' 'Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984,' and Lloyd Bradley's 'This is Reggae Music' - plus I just started Peter Shapiro's 'Turn the Beat Around.' The former two works are pretty amateurishly-written, I reckon. From what I've read of Shapiro so far, he has a better feel for putting together a compelling narrative.
If you haven't already, you should read 'Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation' by Jeff Chang. My favourite book about music, no question. He traces the origins of hip hop to the sound system culture in Jamaica, and then proceeds to elaborate on the development of the music in New York during the late-twentieth-century. Can't recommend it highly enough.
Jeff Chang's book on hip hop doesn't necessarily break new ground in terms of what it has to say. He just has a fantastic capacity for storytelling. I actually ended up appreciating his discussions about the other elements of hip hop culture - graffiti and breakdancing - as much as his treatment of rapping and DJing. After reading Chang, it became clear to me that analyses of the history of hip hop are also analyses of race relations in late twentieth-century America.