Essays on songs, artists and/or albums
Archive for November, 2008
Billy, You Know it’s Not the End, We’ll Always be Good Friends
Generally, I think singles collections and best-ofs are an abomination. They strip an album of its parts and impede people from listening to any part of an artist’s catalog that they don’t already know.
I suppose they’re good if you’re only interested in hearing songs you’ll recognize, but they’re not for me. At least for the [...]
What You Ignore is Priceless to Emo
My Chemical Romance is not emo.
At least it was not emo I identified with at the age of 18. The makeup, the dyed-black hair, these were all things that I thought were a joke. And this wasn’t the emo I loved when I was 13.
Jimmy Eat World, Saves the Day, The Get Up Kids these [...]
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