Monthly Archives: December 2008
Best Albums of 2008
We talked about doing this as a podcast, and several other ideas were floated, but in the end we decided just to post this discussion between some of us about the best albums of the year. Tell us about your own nominees or vote on the ones we mention. Read the full discussion (with some small edits for clarity and content by an authoritative editor) after the jump. Also relevant to this discussion are previous 2008  music posts located here, here and especially here: Read the rest of this entry
Good News for Movie Lovers in PA
Yes, this is good news. But I somehow doubt that it will provide sufficient incentive for the ignorant masses to STFU.
2008: The Bad
OK, everyone is doing their “best of” recollections. And I hear through the grapevine that a music edition is coming here one of these days to education those of us (me) who haven’t been keeping up on music. But this one is your general catch-all for the kudos and pet peeves of the year. What rocked your boat and what pissed you off. Entertainment-wise that is.
To start with I give you the bad. A followup post will give you the good.
When does an “alternative” artist become mainstream?
When they get radio play? When they sign a major record deal? When they start appearing on video channels? or… Read the rest of this entry
New Music: Fall Out Boy, All-American Rejects
It’s rare to have two highly-anticipated albums come out on the same day, especially two albums by bands that have so much in common, and which actually turn out to be good. Which is why this past week’s confluence of releases by Fall Out Boy and The All-American Rejects is so great: it showcases two pop/rock acts at the top of their game.
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Some Great Christmas Albums
I can’t believe it’s less than a week until Christmas and there hasn’t been a single Christmas post yet. Wow.
So here’s my humble attempt at one. Great Christmas albums. I don’t mean the greatest of all time. We did great Christmas songs a couple of years ago. We even did bad Christmas music (and here) around the same time. We did best Christmas animation, Christmas films, and so forth. But this is just some good Christmas albums you may have missed that are worth listening to.
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Wedge songs
Or songs that build to big crescendos. My favorite kind of songs. Let’s see how many we can come up with.
The Frames are really great with wedge songs. I’m calling them “wedge songs” because the term the Frames use for them. When they record them in the studio and see the digitial representation of the song, you know those squiggly lines in the audio tracks? They form a wedge.
The Frames – “Keepsake”
(The crescendo starts three minutes in)
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