Category: Music
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An Ode to the ’90s-est Album: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
by William Moon This isn’t a round-number anniversary or anything, but a recent T-shirt purchase by my wife has got me in a Mellon Collie place. And considering The Smashing Pumpkins’ hit 1995 double album is over two hours long, you can stay in that place for a long time. (Also I strongly considered including…
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The Bats**t Chronicles #1: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
by William Moon Starting a new feature here with The Bats**t Chronicles, wherein I dig into a project that succeeds or is memorable not in spite of being batshit crazy, but almost entirely because it is batshit crazy. (“Succeeds” is a malleable term here, as many projects in this vein are disasters by any traditional…
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Watch That Man: The 100 Greatest David Bowie Songs, Part Two
Numbers 100-51 are in part one here. And we press on. 50. “TVC 15” (1976, Station to Station) One of Bowie’s most willfully bizarre tracks, “TVC 15” begins with a boogie-woogie piano intro, which is joined by a golden oldies-style vocal line from Bowie. While the vocals are buried in a surprisingly busy mix, the…
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Watch That Man: The 100 Greatest David Bowie Songs, Part One
by William Moon We lost David Bowie over seven years ago now, which feels impossible until you remember how little meaning time has had in the intervening years (too busy flexing and wanking, I suppose). The recent appearance of his Queen duet “Under Pressure” in the award-nominated film Aftersun sent me into a Bowie place,…
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Don’t Feed the Plants: The Genius of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, the King of the Nerd Musicals
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in August 2017 Well, certainly the talk of this week has been about the…♪ to-tal-e-clipse-of-the-Sun. So that naturally got me thinking about one of my all-time favorite movies, Little Shop of Horrors. This isn’t a round number anniversary for the film or anything, nor is there any type…
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