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honestly tho it's crazy that REM ever got as close as they did
You might wanna skip the "Laffy Taffy" entry once we get to that.
And the guy who marketed Ellis as Orion also released "Harper Valley PTA," which will be in this column in a couple of weeks.
Loretta Lynn made snarling pop-country 50 years ago. Use your head.
No, this has been the plan for at least a few weeks.
I wrote a big feature on the industry behind this kind of movies a few years ago: http://grantland.com/features/a-look-how-ripoff-factory-called-asylum-makes-mockery-box-office/ That same movie studio is now more famous for the Sharknado series. Too bad John Fred didn't have a Sharknado in him.
Then don't read it, bitch. (I like my new nickname tho.)
You're still going to be pulling this shit when I get back to "Lean Back," aren't you
I have given 10s to three Beatles songs. As of right now, only the Beatles and the Rolling Stones (who also have three) have multiple 10s. Kid Rock doesn't have any #1 singles, but his highest-charting song ("Picture" with Sheryl Crow, #4 in 2002) would've been an 8.
It's my column, I can do whatever I fucking want.
I have been told that people don't buy book versions of things that are available for free online. But thank you!
Chilton sells it. That's the difference.
Publicist tells me it won't actually be for sale until next year.
There's nothing random about them. She's using the conversation to show how quickly these people are moving on from the death of this person who they know, and how oblivious they are to their daughter's suffering.
"war candy" is a great typo tho.
I don't usually talk about B-sides on here.
Yeah I'm thinking I'll throw that in when something notable got boxed out. Won't write an essay or anything but it kinda helps me situate a song historically.
can't believe i'm the pedantic backpacker in this thread, but madvillainy, which is arguably as good as rich gang: tha tour part 1, came out in 2002.
At the time, damn near every Supremes single hit #1. Like "My World Is Empty Without You" only got to #5, and for them, that was a flop.
Stereogum. We're calling it right down the middle.
I am of the Ernest Goes to Camp generation. Maybe I'll acknowledge Shrek when I get to "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)."
Stick with this column and you will find that I do not penalize songs for being cheese.
I mean, it's still a Holland-Dozier-Holland Supremes song. The floor is pretty high.
I like it. But it's kinda depressing to write about that group in the midst of what appears to be a prolonged breakup, and it came out during a very, very busy week. It got overshadowed. It happens.
Respect, sure. Influence, no.
Kanye is the most important cultural figure to come out of music this century. But Wayne has done much, much more to change the way people rap. Also, Wayne has influenced Kanye, and Kanye has not influenced Wayne.
Simmons employs a lot of my friends, and my best recent freelance checks have had his name on the upper lefthand corner, so I continue to ride with him.
This occurs to me when I was writing it, and I kept writing it anyway. Real talk tho: Simmons is a huge influence. Finding his early-00s stuff was a total lightbulb moment.
Factual corrections to boneheaded errors are extremely helpful and always welcome in this comments section. People bitching that the articles do not exactly reflect their own feelings are not.
Easy there, we haven't even gotten to "Lean Back" yet.
Right now I wanna make it illegal for any album to turn 20 ever again.