Every now and then I will go and revisit the music that I listened to in high school. My buddy Tyler burned three CDs for me but had a good combo of pop, alt rock, and pop punk, and these albums were like a Bible to me. I didn’t love every song, but they became the soundtrack…
What could have been a completely average and forgettable pop punk song is instead one of the more distinct tracks I’ve heard. Instead of the normal vocal line for the verses, Steriogram’s lead singer showcases a squeaky high-pitched talk-singing at a breakneck pace. It has the aesthetic quality of someone “scatting” in jazz, or beat boxing in a cappella. It…
There’s always a fuzzy line between tasteless and hilarious (just ask It’s Always Sunny, the essence of that line). Somewhere in the ten years or so since I first heard “Scotty Doesn’t Know,” it’s flipped from one side of that line to the other. Maybe it’s just because I’m married, but the premise of someone bragging to a boyfriend that…