I’m sure the Sixties Beatles were great. But I bet not as great as the Nineties Beatles.
It was just a temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people to communicate by bombarding each other with pitiful cultural a...
I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through the mail to a girl. I watched these two, laughing over this story a...
I was somebody's boyfriend now. This would mean a lot of trial and error. But she was who I wanted to try and err with.
I thought, there is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment... There is nowhere else I could imagine wanting to be besides here in this car, with this girl, on this road, listeni...
I realize it’s frowned on to choose a mate based on something superficial like the music they love. But superficiality has been good to me. In the animal kingdom, Renée and I would have recognized eac...
But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.
Wearing straight clothes but still in costume—as Rodgers summed it up, His seemingly casual appearance was actually the flowering of his next drag: He was delving into the eighties metrosexual world o...
By refusing to repeat it, much to the despair of their record companies. Both wrote gorgeous sci-fi ballads blatantly inspired by 2001—Space Oddity and After the Gold Rush. Both did classic songs abou...
The important thing isn't that we're freakazoidal about the same things--it's that she's as freakazoidal about her stuff as I am about mine, and that enthusiasm can't help but unite us, even if the ob...
The country singers understand. It’s always that one song that gets you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. Country singers are alwaystwanging about that number on the jukebox they can’t st...
THE WHITE ALBUM IS THE BROKEN ALBUM, THE DOUBLE-VINYL mess, a build-your-own-Beatles kit forcing you to edit the album yourself. They even made the audience come up with the title. (Nobody has ever ca...
THE TOP TEN: David Bowie and Mick Rock, Moonage Daydream. Universe, 2002. David Buckley, Strange Fascination. Virgin, 1999. Kevin Cann, David Bowie: A Chronology. Simon & Schuster, 1984. Kevin Cann, A...
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.
I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.
Earthling and the next record Hours were so damn good, it was startling to hear them, but it was tough to convince my friends they were worth getting excited about.
But if you listen to outtakes from the sessions, you can hear the Beatles worked out harmonies for Eight Days a Week—beautiful harmonies, in fact. Yet they cut the harmonies and sang in unison, to mak...
But for me, if we're talking about romance, cassettes wipe the floor with MP3s. This has nothing to do with superstition, or nostalgia. MP3s buzz straight to your brain. That's part of what I love abo...
At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They had groovy titles like The Word or The Way, and translated the Bible into cont...