Pop is the most widely beloved, enduring, and profitable form of music in the age of recording studios. Probably because of this, it doesn’t get a lot of respect from hipsters, which makes it easy to find online music hubs filled with nothing but loathing and pity for the millions blasting Top 40 on the…
This is the first in a hopefully-recurring feature where the writers of Earn This will choose some genre or theme, collectively pick twenty or so of their favorite songs under that umbrella, and write a few words about each song. If we’re motivated, we’ll even embed a Spotify playlist. For our first entry, Dan and…
100 Film Favorites – #21: Back to the Future Part III (Robert Zemeckis, 1990) Okay, first thing’s first: I know a lot of Back to the Future fans will probably regard this as blasphemy. Literally every countdown I’ve seen ranks Back to the Future Part II above Part III. So perhaps this is the first…
Rating: 2.5 stars (out of 5) I’ve listened to this album about a dozen times through (my favorite tracks more than double that), and I still can’t quite parse Relient K’s vision for their seventh album. And I think that’s the problem with Collapsible Lung: when you scratch away the surface, there is no vibrant, amber…
The Usual Suspects — Boring Desert Island Discs I Still Love: AC/DC – Back in Black The Clash – London Calling Fugazi – 13 Songs Green Day – Dookie Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American My Bloody Valentine – Loveless Oasis – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory Radiohead…
This is part of the Everything Music Survey series The Usual Suspects — Boring Desert Island Discs I Still Love: The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night The Beatles – Revolver The Beatles – Rubber Soul Big Star – #1 Record/Radio City Billy Joel – The Stranger Billy Joel – 52nd Street Billy Joel – Glass Houses…
This is part of the Everything Music Survey series AllMusic Questions The Usual Suspects — Boring Desert Island Discs I Still Love: 65daysofstatic – The Destruction of Small Ideas The American Analog Set – Know By Heart Battles – Mirrored Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism Dragonforce – Sonic Firestorm Dream Theater – Six Degrees of…
This is part of the Everything Music Survey series Six years ago, I was a freshman in college and I did all of my writing on LiveJournal. This was just when I was really starting to get into music, movies, and other arts, so along with my angsty journal entries (I had a pretty crappy freshman year),…
Welcome to the “Everything Music Survey” page. Below, you can read the introduction to the project and our filled out surveys. Enjoy, and link us to your own surveys. Everything Music Survey Introduction Colton’s Completed Survey Dan’s Completed Survey Grant’s Completed Survey
The AV Club is one of my favorite sites on the web. I love many of their features (as I’ve noted in the past, the New Cult Canon column by Scott Tobias was what directly inspired me to recruit Grant and get this site going). Probably my least favorite recurring feature on the site is…