Posts tagged "Peter Gabriel"
Blerd Radio 2013 | Episde 20: Jann Wenner Can Bite Me (Part 1)

Blerd Radio 2013 | Episde 20: Jann Wenner Can Bite Me (Part 1)

The potential class for the Rock Hall in 2014 is a doozy…and the Blerd Radio team is talking about it.

Bon Iver, "Come Talk To Me:" The Singles Bar Review

Bon Iver, “Come Talk To Me:” The Singles Bar Review

So back in 2010, Peter Gabriel tackled versions of songs by the likes of Bon Iver, Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor and others with the help of his ‘New Blood Orchestra.’  In theory, it sounded like a nifty idea – especially when it was coached by the fact that Gabriel authorized a companion or follow-up piece where those same artists would have an opportunity to return the favor.  Hence the respective titles of Scratch My Back (2010) and now …And I’ll […]

Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City: Album Review

Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City: Album Review

There was a time that Vampire Weekend perched, perilously, on the precipice of being one of the great one-album wonders of the ’00s. Like Cannibal Ox or At the Drive-In or Bloc Party before them, the Ivy League pop-rockers seemed poised to turn heads with one masterstroke of a record, and then retreat into either obscurity, oddity, or simple irrelevance. That album was 2008’s Vampire Weekend — the one with “Oxford Comma” and “A-Punk” and basically all the Vampire Weekend […]

New Release Report 10/22/12: Yep, On A Monday...

New Release Report 10/22/12: Yep, On A Monday…

Guess who’s got a new album coming out today?

bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Best Albums Of The Eighties (10-1)

bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Best Albums Of The Eighties (10-1)

It’s a Purple Top 10, as the Kid from Minneapolis finishes near the top of our list…but he’s not #1. Find out who was in the final installment of the ’80s best albums!

bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Best Albums of the Eighties (#50-#41)

bLISTerd Presents: The 100 Best Albums of the Eighties (#50-#41)

We are in the top half of our ’80s list, and in this installment, R.E.M. appears twice and the King of Pop makes his first of three appearances. Find out what other albums made the cut.

bLISTerd: The Best Albums Of The '00s (40-31)

bLISTerd: The Best Albums Of The ’00s (40-31)

U2 hits the top 40 of our list of the best albums of the ’00s. Read on to see who else made the cut!

Spin Cycle: Joseph Arthur’s “Redemption City”

Joseph Arthur is a prolific mad genius. Like contemporaries Ryan Adams and Robert Pollard, Arthur is a man who simply can’t seem to help making music. He once described songs that made up the four EPs he released in 2008 as “strange animals in a cosmic cage begging for release”; he released an album a scant seven months ago; and now, seemingly out of nowhere, he’s dumped Redemption City on his devoted fanbase as a free digital download, and surprisingly to […]

bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The Best Videos of the ’80s (Top Ten)

10. “Money for Nothing” Dire Straits (1985) “Money for Nothing” is probably the video most synonymous with MTV that wasn’t by Michael Jackson. Spotlighting very early computer animation, the clip combines live footage of the band performing with a loosely defined narrative in computer world (cue Kraftwerk). To folks who weren’t around in MTV’s first decade, watching this video today might be like the same person trying to play Calicovision. But again, in the context of the time, the video […]

bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The Top 50 Videos of the Eighties (30-21)

30. “Shock the Monkey” Peter Gabriel (1983) Peter Gabriel is often lauded for his video work, although most of his innovative music videos are overshadowed by his greatest video achievement (which we’ll get to later).  Frankly, I still have no idea what the hell 1982’s “Shock the Monkey” is about, but it has everything – monkeys, midgets, dot matrix printouts… The song is apparently about lovers’ jealousy, but the video looks a lot more like paranoid schizophrenia to me.  Whatever […]

Why the Hell Should I Like… Field Music?

  “Why the hell should I like… ?” is an experiment of sorts between Popblerd and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit . What we’re going to attempt to do is to pick 10 songs from our favorite artists — one for which the other has professed dislike or disinterest — and show them why they’re wrong. One thing you should know about me is that I’m an unapologetic lover of British pop (Britpop if you will). There’s something about the sheer musicality and sharpness that […]

Shoulda Been a Hit: Lionel Richie’s “Ordinary Girl”

When all is said and done, it’ll be really sad if people only remember Lionel Richie by virtue of (in order of embarrassment): *”We Are the World 2010″ *Getting the tar beat out of him by his ex-wife Brenda back in the mid-Eighties *being Nicole Richie’s father (although Nicole has done a great job disassociating herself from the whole Paris Hilton network). Fact of the matter is, Lionel Brockman Richie has been writing and performing great songs for forty years […]