Archive for December 2009
Episode 1250 is up
December 31, 20092009 NFL Viewers Guide
December 31, 20092009 Viewers’ Guide and 22nd Annual Playoff Charts for games played January 3, 2010 All Times Eastern Pittsburgh Steelers at Miami Dolphins, Sunday 1:00 (CBS). You may have heard how desperately complicated the AFC tiebreakers are this year. I’ve seen worse. At first, I too thought they were complicated—but I was overthinking it. Here’s how [...]
Joel’s Hit Show, Episode 50, December 27 2009 Playlist
December 27, 2009KT Tunstall, Little by Little Joanna Newsom, Sprout and the Bean Nouvelle Vague, Metal The New Pornographers, Letter From an Occupant El Perro del Mar, Let Me In Meshell Ndegeocello, Andromeda & the Milky Way Cold Cave, Life Magazine Negativland/Chumbawamba, The ABCs of Anarchism Real Estate, Snow Days Marisa Nadler, Dying Breed Tulsa, Thunderbird Neko [...]
The Million Stars “To Love”
December 27, 2009Here we have some standard female-fronted folky pop, like Suran Song in Stag or Flashing Red Airplane. The singing is not as distinctive as Bettie Serveert’s Carol van Dyk, but it’s off in that direction. “A Quiet Life” provides a good example of this. The piano is quite distinctive during the chorus. “Moth” is a [...]
Radagun “Life Lessons”
December 27, 2009Holy shit. The first track, “Not the One”? Has the same melody and beat as “Three Small Words” by Josie and the Pussycats. This cannot be an accident. It’s too similar. Holy crap I can’t believe it. Of course I like the song. If it were Noelle LeBlanc from Damone singing instead of Kay Hanley [...]
Kristina Morland “Pidgin Music”
December 27, 2009Kristina Morland has me whipped into a fine frenzy on “Pidgin Music.” This album actually has a real Pinoisepop feel to it, although I think Morland wala paki alam about that. But the vocals and musical style remind me of an acoustic Sixes and Sevens or Moonpools and Caterpillars. Grey Anne, too, especially on “Day [...]
