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A rocking counterpart of Fish Fantasy

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I can't remember if I said I was retiring this blog or not so apologies if I said it's gone and it's something that just posted out of the blue and you're still following this for some reason. Then again I could be confusing this with another bug I'm not lying at one point I counted 72 on Tumblr alone. But also if the truth be told I am pretty bored at work so if I can figure out what's up with the internet and routers at home and work I may just start to update this blog again with some regularity because hey the only thing I know about more than art is music

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American Songwriter: Prince's "When You Were Mine"

Prince isn’t known for his talkativeness with the press, but there is a quote taken from an interview with Tavis Smiley of PBS that shows the admiration he has for his longtime fans. “When you don’t talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you,” he said. “I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I’ve gone through a lot of changes, but they’ve allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.”

Those fans to whom that quote refers know that the Prince phenomenon began well before 1999 and Purple Rain. For one shining example, there’s “When You Were Mine”, which can be found on his third album, 1980’s Dirty Mind. The song is old enough that it predates his obsession with shortening words into letters. (That’s why it’s not “When U Were Mine.”) Yet it still stands as one of his most convincing lust-gone-wrong songs.

The song also displayed Prince’s budding musical versatility, something that would come to the fore in his subsequent commercial breakthroughs. Although His Purpleness was already known at that point for sweaty R&B workouts and soul come-ons, “When You Were Mine” strikes the aural pleasure center via the kind of melodic New Wave for which Ric Ocasek might have traded his best pair of Wayfarers. Featuring snapping drums and Farfisa-styled synths (all played by you-know-who), the song doesn’t contain an ounce of flab. [Read More]

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I’m happy to be coming out of a semi-official retirement to post a live long and prosper pic here and a little closure here. I really loved this blog, when I was a little younger. A little more optimistic. Certainly naive for my age. The internet wasn't as shitty, people weren't as mean. I had a lot of big ideas. I hadn't lived long enough yet to realize everything gets worse, and that it’s nearly impossible to keep a democratic 3+ person band alive in nyc... let alone unionize them. Artist Collective? Silver Lake. Interview Blog? Pre-Pitchfork. Everything I liked and liked to do “has been” or is being “phased out”. I know I sound awfully, “get off my lawn!” right now...

but I just felt after all these years of collecting, the occasional tagging and hoarding pictures of people I really loved at one point in my life... that it was time to leave it alone and step away, perhaps as a time capsule.

I think there was a point in my life when I really loved Marilyn Manson. It’s so long ago now, I’m not sure if I remember for sure. I know I liked his first 3 albums and went to shows. Somehow I feel like I like everything, and yet really nothing at the same time. I am comfortable saying this now, but it took me a long time to be this comfortable with myself to say it. It’s not like I would hurt Brian Warner’s feelings ! I never knew him personally and lotsa people bought Holy Wood, and his greatest hits album, I was not one of those people.

He wins, anyway, because he gets my money again, as he’s going on tour with (pretty much the only 90s artist I still give money to or listen to with any regularity) Billy Corgan

I love E, and I wanted to see him in 2010, but the moment passed, and I didn’t.

I can go months and months and months without listening to his music but I always appreciate his unique blend of “bummer rock”. I write a lot of sad, self-deprecating songs myself, sometimes I don’t like to be reminded.

But E, the man is so damn prolific, i couldn't get into/ or absorb the trilogy of albums he put out and i felt some kind of guilt that i wasn't supporting him.

of course they wound up touring and doing two nights at the royal albert hall, so I guess they’re doin OK. One more person who doesn't need me in their life... Guess this is goodbye.

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Black Sabbath-Neon Knights(1980)

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My friend Jay Sharp’s mighty band, The Mighty JSE, is out with a new EP, which I’d recommend downloading immediately.

As usual, Jay Sharp pierces the matrix and lands us in the JSE Universe of his (+ever expanding/contracting roster of seed banks) own creation.

In 2013 I spent about 3 hours circle jerking with Mr Sharp for his Fish Fantasy podcast. If you missed our epic summit of music nerds nerding out about music, catch the replay here:

http://ffr65.podomatic.com/entry/2013-08-28T21_52_02-07_00

Click the play button on his new EP, Falling Into Place by the Mighty JSE.

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