Andrew Tan
2007: I’d Hold Your Hand And You’d Understand
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I’ve always believed there was a certain sound you’d hear when you love someone. At first I thought it was Nico’s “These Days” because of The Royal Tenenbaums. And then I thought it was Jens Lekman’s “A [...]
2006: I Got a Million Things I’d Rather Do Than to Play Rock n’ Roll For You
08 Haiti
I started hating Pitchfork when I was 14. I found a negative review of Jimmy Eat World’s Clarity and as a result I decided I would have everything this publication ever liked. Kid A, a 10.0? Fucking glorified cable testing, even though I had only heard “National Anthem.” . . . And You Will [...]
2004: It Sounds Like Someone Else’s Song From a Long Time Ago
03 NYC
I assume there were tons of reasons to hate Interpol’s Our Love To Admire. Generally panned by critics Our Love to Admire seemed to mark a once promising band’s decent into mediocrity. I agreed for entirely different reasons. From the track listing I knew I would hate this album. “No I in Threesome” doesn’t [...]
2003: There’s Bourbon on the Breath of the Singer You Love So Much
I didn’t believe the rumors when I read them. It was December 22, 2002 and a rumor was floating around that Joe Strummer had died. But until an official news source reported it, it wasn’t true. I went to bed confident that there would be no news in the morning.
But still I woke up early. [...]
2002: And You Said You Were The Lonely 1
I couldn’t describe the feeling. I just felt off center. Something didn’t feel right, it wasn’t overtly bad but it certainly wasn’t good. So usually what I would do is go to my room and lay in my bed and listen to Paul Westerberg’s Stereo.
I started listening to Paul Westerberg because of the recommendation of [...]
2001: I Was Maimed by Rock and Roll
What attracted me to Chris Conley was the fact that he’s probably a mass murderer. On Saves The Day’s Stay What You Are Conley details drowning, crucifixion and self-immolation through electrocution. The violence drew me to Saves The Day and propelled them to the top of my ongoing list of favorite bands. The swinging of [...]
2000: I Know I Would Die If I Could Come Back New
The following is the first in a new series I’m working on. For the next nine weeks I will be looking back at the music I listened to during the first decade of 2000.
When I moved back to Zephyrhills, FL in eighth grade, I thought of it as a fresh start. I had been there [...]
Love is Another Word for Regret
01 Hit or Miss
The actuator arm on my hard drive has been wearing thin. For the past few days I’ve been listening to A New Found Glory’s Nothing Gold Can Stay on repeat. But I don’t even like the album anymore.
Nothing Gold Can Stay sat on my computer for several years before now. I hope [...]
The Best Way to Touch Your Heart is to Make an Ass of Myself
A few weeks ago my friend Jessie DaSilva and I were discussing what attracted us to music, specifically Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Jessie told me about a theory she had read that the same personality that comes across in music is often the same personality that attracts us to whoever gets our [...]
