Comments on: albums i’ve recently acquired

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:30:34 +0000

you want a little 90′s nostalgia? not sure if you know but that guitarist from Rilo Keley is from Salute Your Shorts and Boy Meet world… and after Wiki’s help that singer is from Troop Beverly Hills….. but I am sorry, 80′s destroys the 90s….

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:04:03 +0000

An overlooked mid-90s album is the debut album by Cake, Motorcade of Generosity. Their later stuff is much better known (like somewhat played-out “The Distance”) but their first album, released long before they were in alot of commercials and movie trailers is absolutely excellent.

By: jina

jina — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:13:20 +0000

ha! i remember white town; i kind of LOVED that one song. did we listen to it while hanging up campaign posters circa 1996?

By: Russell Heimlich

Russell Heimlich — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:56:11 +0000

I distinctly remember listening to White Town on the radio while playing with Legos in my living room circa 1997. I would have had no idea who that was until you mentioned their lyrics.

By: Gilahi

Gilahi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:19:46 +0000

Isn’t “Raising Sand” just a simply cool album? As an old guy, I’m a big Zeppelin fan, and I could listen to Alison Krauss sing the phone book, but I would have never imagined that Plant & Krauss together could’ve produced something like this.

By: allen

allen — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:41:00 +0000

@7: Mama say mama sa mama cu sa! I thought that line was originated by Michael Jackson, but it turns out he got it from someone else. It was also appropriated by the Bloodhound Gang. I will admit to compulsive Googling.

I actually like Rihanna too. Her songs strike me as kind of a little weird. In a good way. I like her use of sampling — for example, when “Shut Up and Drive” first came out, I was like, “I REMEMBER this song from somewhere…where was it?!?!” Then I Googled it and found out that the guitar riff is from Blue Monday, which I kinda liked when I was in high school.

I may have said this before, but I’ll say it again: for some reason, Rihanna reminds me of a fembot. I don’t know why.

Have you heard the Marie Digby cover of “Umbrella?” I love it almost as much as her cover of Linkin Park’s “What I’ve Done.”

@8: I’ll have to check it out, if only because I occasionally call my daughter “Rilo Kylie” for some reason.