Category Archives: mp3s
Fore & Aft: Echoplex
“Ella-ella-ella-ay-ay-ay”. Or so goes the biggest line of the biggest single of 2007. The deviously catchy delivery tactic of that echoing artifact sunk its hooks in so deeply that over the last few years, we’ve heard its success replicated far and wide by both the original songwriting team of The-Dream and Christopher “Tricky” Stewart and [...]
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Senseis Are Standing By
I wasn’t as enamoured with The Ecstatic as everyone else appeared to be. First off, the mix sounded really strange to me, the same kind of strange that the Q-Tip album sounded. It had sloppy production on the beats end with flat sonics and not much frequency range, so the vocals sat on top of [...]
Walk On By
I’ve been digging into the Stax again lately and am just floored by Steve Cropper’s versatility and style as a guitarist. His stuff on ANY given Otis Redding song would be the high-water mark for any other session musician’s career.
Not that he was just a session musician, mind you. Hardly a journeyman, Cropper stuck around [...]
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Every Day The Fourteenth
Happy/fuck that Valentine’s Day from your friends at The Cadillac Of Winter.
Outkast – Happy Valentine’s Day
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Songs That Explode: A Primer
I particularly like songs that, you know, do stuff. Sequentially, the thing about doing stuff is that one goes from doing nothing to doing something. Causally, the tension of not doing stuff often propels one into doing stuff. But if we were talking about absolute opposites, doing nothing would just be nothing and doing something [...]
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In The Club
The first months of the year tend to be the most musically fruitful for me. The reason is fairly simple: I read all the bloggers’ best-of lists, I search for those tracks and albums, and I enjoy them. A lot. I don’t pretend to have any individual taste, or the ability to search out new [...]
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Fore & Aft: Drinking Songs
Fore & Aft is a new series dedicated to exploring the ways hit songs influence other hit songs, for better or for worse.
In my household, one of the more polarizing songs from last year was the Jamie Foxx/T-Pain collabo “Blame It On The Alcohol”, a little ditty celebrating drunkenness as an excuse to do something [...]
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Scott Walker
If you haven’t heard of Scott Walker, he’s worth some research. I highly recommend all of his solo albums Scott I-IV. There’s also an excellent documentary with David Bowie executive producing (he was a big influence on Bowie throughout his career) called 30 Century Man I hunted down and watched today. It’s definitely worth a [...]
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My New Theme Song