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Not with that clownI put up a thing about You Know Who at BTD in which I linked to this song, her stunning performance of Elvis Costello's I Want You, and I thought I should share it with the seven of you who read here but not there. Link launches radio.blog in a...
July 27, 2006 Author: Matt Barr
Oh, Romeo, yeah, y'know I used to have a scene with himPeople seldom ask me: What's your all time favorite song? Please don't tell me it involves You Know Who. It doesn't....
July 25, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Now that that's all out of the wayBlogcritics had a very appreciative review of 1999's When the Pawn... by You Know Who yesterday. Displaying wit even in her woe, an incisive and often paradoxical Apple survives and lives to tell the tales with poetic, passionate intensity in quirkily unconventional and evocative language. From "To Your Love": "My...
July 25, 2006 Author: Matt Barr You Know Who demands equal timeAnd this blog delivers. Did Judy Garland say "fucker!" in the middle of her version? Brandi Carlile week continues below (after click for more link, if you're on the home page) with a cover of a song I don't think Judy Garland ever sung....
June 30, 2006 Author: Matt Barr You can't listen to that!A friend (who may not see this post unless I include the word "abortion" in it) directed me to this post reproducing in its entirety a piece by John Miller in National Review: Rockin' the Right, Miller's list of 50 conservative-themed rock songs. The point of the post and its...
May 25, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Some of the best of Chris IsaakThe Best of Chris Isaak is out, and it's a decent collection. I like the inclusion of pre-Wicked Game songs like Blue Hotel, You Owe Me Some Kind of Love and Dancin'. I probably would have picked Gone Ridin' over Dancin'. The acoustic Orbison cover Only the Lonely makes it...
May 19, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Come on, get happyCheering up works of literature with unhappy endings: Macbeth is much too depressing. In my version the gentle, unassuming and monosyllabic thane settles down at Cawdor, where Lady Macbeth develops a profitable line in soap that leaves the hands spotless. Hamlet finds a shrink, marries Ophelia and goes into insurance....
March 8, 2006 Author: Matt Barr
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