by Matt Meade Thanks to everyone who checked in on my 7 part list of records that are overrated, emperors in the nude, or simply constructs that I do not understand. Believe it or not, I have found my own negativity to be exhausting and I can’t wait to follow this up with a platinum […]
Read more "7 Albums I Am Supposed to Love That I Actually Hate (Part 7 of 7)"by Matt Meade 6. TV on the Radio – Dear Science (2008) Return to Cookie Mountain is so good. It moves and sways and grows like a mold. It inhabits space and it bleeds like it’s a living organism. But if Return to Cookie Mountain is so good, why is Dear Science so impenetrable? […]
Read more "7 Albums I Am Supposed to Love That I Actually Hate (Part 6 of 7)"by Matt Meade 5. LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem (2005) When James Murphy is good, he is undeniable. When he is good, he is like that stupid 80s movie that comes on cable every once in a while. It’s one of those parody movies where the gags are centered around spit takes and pratfalls and […]
Read more "7 Albums I Am Supposed to Love That I Actually Hate (Part 5 of 7)"by Matt Meade 4. Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted (1992) It has been a lifelong goal of mine to become a Pavement fan. I love the bands who are Pavement’s predecessors; bands like The Fall and Sonic Youth; bands not concerned with hitting the Billboard charts, or squishing their ideas into some radio friendly template. And […]
Read more "7 Albums I Am Supposed To Love That I Actually Hate (Part 4 of 7)"3. Peter Gabriel, So (1986) If you are one of the people who still thinks that the film Say Anything… (sic) is a sweet flick about true love, you have either not seen it in 20 years, or you are a sociopath. For those of you who want to defend this flick for which you […]
Read more "7 Albums I Am Supposed to Love That I Actually Hate (Part 3 of 7)"By: Matt Meade 2. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures (1979) I am going to liberate you from a burden you have been carrying around for a long time. Are you ready? Here it is: You don’t have to listen to Unknown Pleasures anymore. That’s right. You are absolved from keeping it on your iPhone, from […]
Read more "7 Albums I Am Supposed To Love That I Actually Hate (Part 2 of 7)"By Matt Meade People who talk about popular music as if it matters like to take certain things as a given. Robert Johnson is the starting point for rock and roll music (rock wouldn’t be rock without the blues, and the blues wouldn’t be the blues without RJ (and the legendary peddling of his own […]
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OLD SCHOOL RECORD REVIEW 