Ten Things I thought about while watching the Video for Milk Music’s video for “No, Nothing, My Shelter”:
1. My Favorite Pair of Black Ankle Boots
2. Burning Man
3. Joshua Trees
4. The Joshua Tree (Album)
5. Those Hilariously Awful Student Films We Made Back in College
6. College in General
7. The Stage Make Up of Various Members of Kiss
8. The Desert
9. All Desert Scenes From Breaking Bad
10. Drugs
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10. Knowing there won’t be a Hangover 4.
9. That Big House in Mexico with the Infinity Pool: I want to live there.
8. Danzig’s “Mother 93” on the soundtrack. Appropriate.
7. “Cut the Grey Wire.”
6. Two Words: Pig Masks.
5. Giraffe Scene, Pre-decapitation.
4. Coke-fueled orgy in a hotel suite sound tracked by Black Sabbath: Yes.
3. “Because of the Ink…that went inside you.”
2. Melissa McCarthy as Cassie the Pawn Shop employee. Priceless.
1. Bradley Cooper: Gorgeous for Days.
Album Cover Art By Steve Powers!
When it comes to modern music, not much impresses me these days. If you look back over the past few years at any Top 10 Albums list I might have compiled – in those years where I was even able to cobble together such a list at all – you’ll see it’s comprised partly of comeback records by classic rockers, greatest hits packages or tribute albums that revisit the material of a legendary artist. That’s rather pathetic, I know, for a writer who once embraced the tagline ‘Rock Critic at Large,’ but it is what it is. I don’t apologize for being unable to shake the feeling that the best years for popular music are, for the most part, 30 – or even 40 – years behind us. Continue reading Recommended Listening: Kurt Vile, Wakin’ On a Pretty Daze
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