OK, here we go. No other subgenre of modern music is so incessantly annoying yet unfairly maligned as the whole Xmas thing – but like all good things, you’ve just gotta know where to look. And look no further – here is, in our humble opinion, the cream of the holiday crop. So light the [...]
Posted tagged ‘Phil Spector’
It’s A Major Award! The BTRNR Top 50 Coolest Christmas Songs
December 18, 2009GUILTY!
April 13, 2009Phil Spector – guilty of 2nd degree murder. Trivia question: Which album features songs written by three different convicted murderers? (this is not a Mike Love joke, by the way) Answer: The Beach Boys, 20/20 (1969) – “Never Learn Not To Love” – Charles Manson, “Cottonfields” – Leadbelly, and “I Can Hear Music” – Jeff [...]
Pure Pop From Old People
March 24, 2009Happy 60th to Power Pop icon and Jesus Of Cool Nick Lowe. Celebrate with the new career-spanning retrospective Quiet Please, which naturally features… Meanwhile, John “Little Bastard” Mellencamp pops off about the current state of the music business and how it sunk so low. He kind of pretends file sharing doesn’t exist and disses the [...]
