Perhaps no word is more overused and less understood than “emo.” These days, just about everything is “emo” according to someone. I will try to give an ever so brief rundown, so people will stop the madness.
I was recently alerted to the indie music site Pitchfork. I had only heard of it in passing because I frequently visit Metacritic, which is a very good site, by the way.
Anyway, Pitchfork has some very enjoyable content, and you can waste quite a bit of time there. I find much of their writing, while funny, to be quite typically “indie,” i.e. elitist. Although not the perfect example of this, check out the review of Jet’s latest album.
I am pretty big into making themed CD’s. I guess in this day and age of iPods and the like, CD’s have become passe, but I still enjoy them, especially when burning my own. There is a sense of finality to them. You can only pick about 20 songs, and that is it. When you get down to those last few songs and you can only pick one of them, you have to make a decision. Maybe I am making the process much more dramatic than it really is, but I still take it pretty seriously.
As yet another adendum to my earlier Coheed post, I am providing a few videos for your viewing pleasure…
Everyone has their guilty pleasures. You know, those things you enjoy that seem to defy all sense of taste and, in some cases, sense. I guess I am no different than anyone else in this regard, yet I still feel bad about it.
Oh, cover songs, how I love/hate you. Nothing gets people more riled up than someone covering one of their favorite songs and doing, what they consider, a poor job. It’s a pretty tricky proposition. Nobody is going to remake a bad song unless it’s for a comedic purpose. Therefore, no matter how well they cover it, some people will despise it, and that’s just how it is.
Rarely does a band come along that is able to truly captivate me. In fact, the list of those bands can be limited to just one. Radiohead. However, in the past year, one group of musicians has been creeping toward the upper echelon of the musical ranking system in my mind. That band is Coheed and Cambria.