24. The Rutles, Cheese and Onions (1978) A legend to last a lunchtime. The Rutles were the perfect Beatle parody, starring Monty Python’s Eric Idle and the Bonzos’ Neil Innes in their classic mock-doc...
Five). The Esher demos are a real treasure trove; they mined it for years. Songs that got worried to death on the album are played with a fresh one-take campfire feel, just acoustic guitars and handcl...
Sometimes you can feel like you’re experiencing some of the most honest, most intimate moments of your life, while butchering a Hall & Oates song at 2 a.m. in a room full of strangers.
On the 11th of every month my friend elizabeth would say, well we made it through another month. so do we get her back now? we always giggled, but we really did expect to get her back. its not human t...
We want to freeze the perfect moment, hold on to it, at least long enough to understand it. But it dances on with us or without us, so we jump in and try to keep up. The universe is expanding and we a...
We couldn't believe how exciting it was to be together, a pair of young Americruisers on a roll. We'd lived for just twenty-five years; we weren't planning to die for fifty more. We danced and drank a...
The only heroic act one can fucking well pull out of the bag in a situation like that is to get on with life and derive some joy from the very simple pleasure of remaining alive, despite every attempt...
Side One of 1967–1970 is up there with Side Three of Hot Rocks in the annals of great vinyl sides. (Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, Sgt. Pepper, With a Little Help, Lucy, A Day in the Life, and All You...
Problems that don't get fixed, situations that neither get resolved nor go away, and annoyances you live with year by year--that's the engine knock of a long-running relationship.
PAUL IS SOMEBODY WHO DOES THINGS WITH ENTHUSIASM, which makes people feel appalled and insulted at things he chooses to do. If you’re under thirty, you have never heard of a song called Spies Like Us,...
My ears rang all the way home and I didn't want them to stop. It made me want to start something.
Listening to it now is like a personally guided tour through my past.
It started off as a playful fantasy we talked about. Then the fantasy became a plan, the way fantasies sometimes do, and the plan became a future. It didn't hit us as the climax of anything, just the...
I remember the summer of 1996, at a drunken wedding with one of my professors, a Hendrix-freak baby boomer, when he was complaining about the 'bullet-in-the-head rock and roll' the kids were listening...
I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.
I always envied my friends who had older siblings who could guide them through the teenage wasteland.
Falling in love with Renée was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-along. She wouldwake up in the middle of the night and say things like...
But bringing people together is what music has always done best.
I’m very expressive.i deserve to feel pretty.i kissed the blarney stone.i am strong. i am brave.im a good friend. I’m a good sister. I’m a good wife. i am a good in-law. I’m a good daughter. i am a go...
Always loved this sentence in Our Bodies, Ourselves, the Eighties edition I had in college: The previous edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves included a brief section on astrological birth control, which...