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The bit that you skip #203: Violent Femmes – Blister in the sun
Inside my head there are two Violent Femmes. The first one I heard thanks to the soundtrack for The Crow. Dark, moody, gothy. Perfect for my teenage years! Years later, I caught John Cusack’s classic Grosse Pointe Blank for two reasons: I loved John Cusack and Minnie Driver was a massive crush. I didn’t expect…
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The bit that you skip #202: Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
I always associate Arcade Fire with The Shining. Hear me out. Remember that scene where Torrance is speaking to Delbert Grady? “You’ve always been the caretaker”, in tone and severity resonated in me when a former friend told me I had to like Arcade Fire because “it’s the music that suits you”. Well, here we…
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The bit that you skip #201: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso
“Are you a taxi driver?” -asked the security lady after taking my details. “No, why?”- I ask, genuinely befuddled. “Every time you drive by this gate you’re listening to ‘taxi driver music’.” She remarks. I teach English at a company in a remote industrial park in what used to be the outskirts of Mexico City,…
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The bit that you skip #200: Peaches & Herb – Reunited
“…and it feels so good”. I think this track and R.E.M.’s “LEONARD BERSTEIN!” are two songs that I need to sing along to in a single, particular part. I might not know the rest of the song but that part exerts a Pavlovian response. Starting as a duet with soft soul ballads, Peaches & Herb…
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The bit that you skip #199: Bad Religion – Leaders and Followers
Can’t claim any greater knowledge about punk besides the usual. Mohawks, three chords, leather jackets with pins, big ass boots, and interesting hair colours. Granted, most of my punk exposure pre 1994 came from documentaries, movies like Dudes (1987) and that dude that got Spocked in The Voyage Home. Oh, and The Young Ones. So…
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The bit that you skip #198: a-ha – The Sun always shines on TV
The cruelest lesson of life is that of achieving a goal, and then having it taken away from you right away. All that effort, pain, and sacrifice, gone in a snap. It’s not uncommon for this to happen to relationships and it’s understandable: we might overlook red flags because of several factors which might be…
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The bit that you skip #196: A Perfect Circle – The Noose
“I can see my breath” whispers Rowina just loud enough so we can hear her in the front over the noise of the car’s heating. We are somewhere between Aberdeen and Glasgow, in the dead of the night, returning from a Radiohead concert. Spirits were now down as it was somewhere around 3 AM, the…
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The bit that you skip #195: Bush – Comedown
I never understood the Nirvana comparison. I can’t find a single Bush song that sounds like Nirvana at all. I think it was more of that one criticism one person makes popular and everyone hangs to that train of insults just to fit in. As someone who was bullied for 8 straight years, I understand…
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The bit that you skip #194: Happy Mondays – Do it better
24 hour party people is a film that is very close to my dearest memories. Michael Winterbottom’s post-modern, half-truths, half-myths film feels like the intertwining of two different stories: the rise and fall of Joy Division and their gloomy music and the rise and fall of Happy Mondays and their drug-fuelled Madchester defining sound. A…
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