January 2010
41 posts
Would love to resolve...
Pretty Goes with Pretty was sadly dormant for much of the last few months—maybe even most of the last year but I’m too afraid to check my archives to find that that might be true. This tumblr, too, is about 90% reblogs and not a lot of thoughtfulness.
I would love to resolve to do better—not for you readers, but for me, the guy who loves writing, especially about music. With...
The Zombies: This Will Be Our Year
This is my...
The Walkmen: In the New Year
thenotes:
Seam /// “New Year’s” /// Headsparks
December 2009
33 posts
marychrist:
dontforgetthecoffee:
June Carter...
Lord Nelson: A Party for Santa Claus (1963)
...
I want my money back yall
rendit:
Still, something must be noted. And so: A woman is missing, and her husband has been named a person of interest. A celebrity has turned out to be less perfect than advertised. Someone you follow on Twitter has a long delay in the Atlanta airport. A politician said something hypocritical; the politician’s hypocrisy was detected by a blogger; another blogger has accused the first blogger...
Pretty Goes With Pretty: 2009: Portrait of a... →
desnoise:
well worth reading (lots of great tunes to download, too!)
Thanks! (And I fixed the year typo… clearly I have my mind on next year—all my recap posts said 2010!)
Is there an easy way to create a zip file of an...
Pitchfork Top 10 Albums, In US Sales
I’d be curious to see whether Animal Collective gets any kind of sales bump after being called Entertainment Weekly’s album of the year. In that “let’s put the power of Pitchfork/internet in perspective” way - that is, if there is any perspective to have.
Also, U2 sold a million copies and that album was considered a turkey?
perpetua:
1. Animal Collective...
songsthataregood:
The Warmers - Your Great...
“The bigger the spectacle, the better the deal. For what you have to pay to see a...”
– James Cameron
you know what? fuck this guy. seriously.
(via piercethenight)
I wanted to give this guy the benefit of the doubt… I found myself wanting to see this film just so I could have a real opinion on it… but fuckin’ a it just looks like a terrible movie, and every time...
Welcome To The New Idolator →
chainofknives:
… and there it went. Sick-making, isn’t it? At least they preserved the old content, but I’m pretty sure that the internet wasn’t invented so we could read features called “Pop or Poop”.
xoxo, michaela
Who’d have thought that the final summation of everything that is wrong with music, and blogging, and blogging about music, would have appeared so perfectly crystallized on...
singthefunkelectric:
For @pgwp Part 2. Return of...
perpetua:
Bear In Heaven “Lovesick Teenagers” I...
the year in winning: douglas martin's top 20... →
Grizzly Bear: “the best all-male girl-group in america.” —douglasmartini
singthefunkelectric:
Hey, Scott, remember this...
Turntable advice please
A friend of mine is looking to buy a turntable as an xmas present… any advice on good brands/models? This is for simple playing-records-at-home purposes - no aspiring DJ needs. She’s looking for a good quality player without descending into an audiophile money hole. Any recommendations?
tumbledore:
Misfits - “Skulls”
Imagine if the internet as we know it now was... →
maura:
tomewing:
perpetua:
This Singles Jukebox post is kinda like that, and it is the even-more-embarrassing flipside of this.
Lex is an in-touch crank. He would also have absolutely hated “Teenage Riot”, I grant you.
Huh? Many of those reviews were positive! And sorry, but Rodney Greene is OTM regarding the whole “not having to care about social status because I am not in a societal...
Watchperpetua:
The Fiery Furnaces “Even In The Rain”
Scott Jacobson’s clip is a throwback to Spike Jonze’s high-concept hilarity, with Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger starring as Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in a strange behind-the-scenes story about the making of Easy Rider. The Daily Show’s John Oliver turns up as Rip Torn, but his amusing cameo is not enough to upstage the bug-eyed paranoia of...
Also, I like that if you visited my tumblr right...
hence the phrase “pretty goes with pretty.”
thenotes:
Fleetwood Mac /// “Go Your Own Way”...
tumbledore:
The Feelies - “Loveless Love”