My friendly response is that I think it would probably help my “batting average” if I wasn’t writing this weekly column that is focused on mainstream pop that inevitably finds me grading on a curve sometimes due to context.
My unfriendly response is that if you think that hookless bargain-basement-Chvrches song you posted is more deserving of attention than Chvrches, of course our tastes don’t line up.
I’m also the only employee here who cares about Sturgill enough to review this. Just trying to be honest about my biases and where I’m coming from. Sorry to provide anything less than worshipful coverage of Lord Sturgill.
I actually do press stop at the end of albums when listening digitally (as Michael did for the review) because my phone or iTunes will often just start playing another album afterwards and it's almost never a vibe
There were a few artists who would have landed songs on here if their fans had organized and rallied around one particular song, BTS Army style... Tyler, Turnstile, Torres, even some whose names don't start with T
This comment section’s meh reaction to snippets that brought me great joy is making me feel like one of those deeply deceived people on Twitter who are convinced Foxing are geniuses (they are wrong and I am right, but still)
Sugar Ray in this environment would definitely be ~vibes~ but beyond YBB's point about McGrath's finances, I'm guessing they just hit it big a couple years too late to fit the demographic. Catch them with Lit, Third Eye Blind, Eve 6, et al at the circa 1998 equivalent.
I was actually going to include an anecdote about how I dressed up as Jack White for OU Halloween in '03 or '04 but it didn't really fit here and then I realized I included it here. Also wrote about OU w/r/t the White Stripes here.
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