Giuseppe Zangara

That that album ever got praise shows just how desperate some people are to think Prince was still releasing good music after the 80s. "Seven," of course, was great.

I love "Kooks." If you're gonna pick a weak spot from side one of that album, "Eight Line Poem" is right there, sleepwalking between "Oh! You Pretty Things" and "Life on Mars?" Whatta downer. By the way, Tindersticks do a fine cover of "Kooks." They make that song sound like death.

Seriously, though, the songs "3121" and "Lolita" are good—wouldn't have been out of place on Sign o' the Times, which is the nicest thing you could say about a Prince song released in the last 20 years.

Accents are rarely noticable when singing because most Brit singers are trying to appeal to an American audience. And "Changes" sounds nothing like Dylan. Weird. I was looking at Pitchfork's 100 Best Albums of the 1970s list again, recently. I still think it's the best of those kind of lists they've done, but I'd forgotten just how low (har har) Hunky Dory ranked. Fuck yeah, it's the best thing he's ever done. Which is saying a lot. One more thing: how does an avowed anglophile like Kinetic not know that "gash" can be used pejoratively?

Really mediocre, boring album, filled with half-baked funk jams and very little in the way of quality songs. Only on the title track and "Lolita" does Prince exhibit any of the old fire. I didn't read the Pfork review. Does it say what I just said? I mean, I called them jizzing over Band of Horses, after all.

The Smoking Popes are still around?

"The Secret Life of Arabia" is awful, awful shit and Pin-Ups is totally fucking gash except for "Rosalyn." The Czech Republic is wrong, too, on both counts.

Wrong. Oasis has spent the last several years being little more than a bad cocaine joke, while Blur actually concentrated on making good music and not having a band member give self-aggrandizing interviews, taking potshots at anyone who so obviously threatens him. That these targets are actually worse than Oasis only goes to show how pathetic Noel Gallagher truly is. As for Blur. It's been three years since Think Tank, which, yes, was only a so-so album. But that still puts Damon Albarn and Co. ahead of Oasis, even if Mr. Albarn is presently more concerned with cartoon affairs.

For a family-sized van?

Aladdin Sane was the follow-up to Ziggy Stardust; it covers a lot of similar ground, but does a better job of it, in my opinion. Less concerned with the establishing the Ziggy persona, the songs get to stand out on their own.

Listening to ROFT a second time, I'm noticing just how much echo has been placed on Moz's vocals throughout the album. It's nothing severe, really, but it's enough to make it worth mentioning. I guess I knew his voice isn't quite up to snuff these days, given how rough he sounded at times on that live album released not too long ago. Still, I like this far more than I would've expected. I'll probably buy it when it comes out.

Christine Chubbuck, an antecedent to Dwyer's televised felo de se: No awesome picture, though.

Reading about that hockey guy led me to thinking about death, more specifically famous and/or unusual ones. Hey, Budd Dwyer:

Yeah, I can't wrap my brain around that one.

http://myweb.cableone.net/yoeddy1/fights/Clint_Malarchuk.wmv

I haven't watched this show in a couple of years. Is it still good.

I once got an ex-girlfriend because of The Czech Republic.

Been one for awhile. I'm surprised it took this long.

The Malarchuk video is worth watching for the reactions in the crowd as they pan away.

Which is worse: eyeball guy or that hockey dude who got his throat slit during a game by someone's skate.

I don't even watch sports, yet I had the misfortune of seeing this as it happened. Fuck.

His off-key warbling of "Good Morning Heartache" is friggin' gold.

Give it time. I was dimissive of Hunky Dory for years before realizing its greatness. Not saying you'll ever feel the way I do about it, but I think you get what I mean. As for where to go after TRAFOZSATSFM: Hunky Dory Aladdin Sane Low Scary Monsters Bowie has other good albums, of course, but those four are my favorites. I've still never heard Lodger, by the way. I should do something about that.

It's just a synthesizer. And yeah, it's annoying.

The whole album. The production is a little more sympathetic to the material than on YATQ, plus the songs are better, anyway.