Last year Paste proclaimed Boxer by The National to be the album of the year. Prior to that, I was too deep in retro-yearning to notice The National. I downloaded the album from eMusic, and was happy for the experience. We shall see what I make of She & Him when my downloads refresh in another week.
More anon.
I let my Paste subscription lapse too. Frankly I was only finding 10% of the music that I would listen to more than once. What happened to a good lyric, a melody that maintained itself through a song.
ReplyDeleteI should watch the complaining I did find some good artists out of it, and it put a nice article in one issue on Pierce Pettis, my favorite songwriter.
Dave
Well, The Hold Steady is too far down the list for starters...
ReplyDeleteDZ - I was all set to write a post titled "Lyrics Wanted" or somesuch. But then RJW mentioned The Hold Steady and I had to reconsider. In any case, I found that Paste magazine was getting lighter and lighter -- in physical weight as well as in genuine content -- so it will be going by the wayside. Unlike, say, Stop Smiling, which has yet to send me a dud issue.
ReplyDeleteKathleen Edwards' album at a pitiful #44?
ReplyDeleteNo "los Campesinos"?
And, what the flagrante? "I, Flathead" nowhere to be seen?
What kind of screwed up mag is Paste?
Fleet Foxes at #6? That about clinches their choices for relevancy and projections of a band's long life.
No Los Campesinos seems like a glitch, but the absence of Ry Cooder's disc is an oversight of ridiculous proportions. I'm wondering if the kids in the hall weren't cut out of the Nonesuch goodies loop.
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