Ha Speak Now is James' favorite Taylor album. We can't do the ranking because everyone here disagrees vehemently on which one is best. (Mine is the correct one tho.)
I haven't heard it yet! No review copies made available. The first couple of singles haven't filled me with hope, though, which is a shame because Scarface has never made a bad album.
Fun story that had no place in the post: When I was 16 (around the same time Eazy died, actually) I got mugged in a Baltimore alleyway by a guy who said he had an AIDS needle. I don't know if that was a real way to kill people, but I do know it was a real way to threaten them.
Ah man, I totally meant to put Missy in there as a someone who deserves a Vanguard. Kinda disagree about OutKast, tho, and absolutely disagree about Em. Eminem basically never made a video that wasn't repulsively ugly.
Yeezus didn't get both. The last Japandroids did, but that's because both Corban and I wanted to write about it and we hadn't figured out the whole system yet.
That actually came out last week, something I didn't realize when I wrote the Sorority Noise AOTW. If I'd know, I probably woulda picked HoF last week.
That should've been "abandoned amusement park." I've been to some damn amusement parks; don't worry. Giallos are Italian horror movies from the '70s (which you could've easily googled), and so giallo lighting is lighting like in those movies.
For some reason, I was totally convinced that the High On Fire joint was coming out next week. If I'd realized it was today, I probably would've made it AOTW. It rules. At least now next week's choice is easier.
Cases of rappers publicly calling out and harassing specific female journalists are extremely rare. I can think of exactly one, and I've been covering this shit for a decade.
At any moment, there are so many Rich Gang tracks out there, put out officially and leaked, that it's hard to keep up with them. I honestly don't think I heard that one before today, but even if I had, it would've been pretty easy to miss that line if I hadn't been intently listening.
Her appearance was a total power move for Drake, and speaking as someone who was there, it didn't derail the set at all. It was a cool thing to get to see.
He did "0 to 100," yes, and it was awesome.
Lolla doesn't count; the '90s touring incarnation had nothing to do with what it is now beyond a name and a Perry Farrell involvement. The real answer would probably be the Newport Folk Festival or something, but Coachella more or less defined what an American festival would become. All these festivals out there now are doing some variation on its blueprint.
Can't remember exactly what was happening, but I think there was a choice between seeing that dude and sitting down for a couple of minutes. Lots of people said he was great, but I'm confident I still made the right choice.
I think "hip-hop" is a phrase that started out as fun, silly baby-talk and became something that people too way, way too seriously. This doesn't happen much anymore, but when I was in college I knew way too many "I don't listen to rap, I listen to *hip-hop* types, and it always bugged the fuck out of me. Besides, hip-hop is supposed to be the culture, right? I'm not about to start writing a goddam column about graffiti.
I'd just like to take this space to point out that I like Beat The Champ roughly as much as I like Ivy Tripp, which is a whole lot. But as a longtime Mountain Goats fan who loves pro wrestling, I can't claim even the slightest shred of objectivity there. (No music critic can or should ever claim objectivity, really, but I *especially* can't claim it there.)
How in the FUCK did I get those two mixed up? Fun fact: I paid money for Len's album and also paid money to see Lit live (opening for Garbage, but still).
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