#  @paranoiacs The Paranoid Style The Paranoid Style posts on X about bob, elvis, to the, in the the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::2831012259/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] -79% - [--] Month [-------] +300% - [--] Months [-------] +611% - [--] Year [-------] -66% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::2831012259/posts_active)  ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::2831012259/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.14% - [--] Month [------] +1.10% - [--] Months [------] +6.90% - [--] Year [------] +12% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::2831012259/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [musicians](/list/musicians) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [pga golfers](/list/pga-golfers) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [currencies](/list/currencies) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) **Social topic influence** [bob](/topic/bob), [elvis](/topic/elvis), [to the](/topic/to-the), [in the](/topic/in-the), [the most](/topic/the-most), [rock](/topic/rock), [night](/topic/night), [john](/topic/john), [the first](/topic/the-first), [london](/topic/london) **Top assets mentioned** [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) [Lear Corporation (LEA)](/topic/$lea) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Happy birthday to Lowell George one of the great polymath musical geniuses of the 20th century and one of the most idiosyncratic people ever to walk the Earth. Here's an appreciation I wrote about his life and work for Oxford American a couple years ago. https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-115-winter-2021/lowell-george-in-eight-and-a-half-songs https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-115-winter-2021/lowell-george-in-eight-and-a-half-songs" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1646628476974235648) 2023-04-13T21:36Z 18.4K followers, 39.9K engagements "An arguably under-reported occurrence in music history is Glyn Johns rescuing both the Beatles' Let It Be and the Clashs Combat Rock from the incoherence of far flung ideas rendered in too freewheeling a fashion. He's the Rock & Roll version of the Wolf from Pulp Fiction" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1647793396679843840) 2023-04-17T02:45Z 19.5K followers, 27.4K engagements "From 'Planet Waves' to "Tears Of Rage" I find the most fascinating part of The Band's collaborations with Bob Dylan to be their unique capacity to render his amphetamine-twitch songs into something borderline narcotic. No subsequent band ever truly successfully slowed him down" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1674568331850838018) 2023-06-30T00:18Z 17.3K followers, 30.9K engagements "Hell yes on this" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1674571636513619969) 2023-06-30T00:12Z 17.3K followers, [--] engagements "From the scorched-Earth utopianism of the title track to the Thin Lizzy-romp of "Celebrated Summer" to the psychedelic closer Plans You Make Husker Dus New Day Rising is a primer on everything that went right and wrong in rock & roll's first three decades. Start anew again" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1678587495833911296) 2023-07-11T02:13Z 16.5K followers, 24.4K engagements "Having gone through hell just to get to hell Elvis Costellos '86 Blood And Chocolate LP is 48-minutes of shrill and thrilling score-settling leveled against past lovers industry dweebs and primarily himself. A psychic demolition derby. Hope you're satisfied what youve done" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1678933914142777344) 2023-07-12T03:29Z 17.3K followers, 54.7K engagements "Thrilled to have been the beat reporter for The Ringer on the subject of the topsy-turvy outcome of the Open Championship. Tom Kim Rory McIIroy Scottie Scheffler the eventual winner and all of the complicated implications of the sport moving forward" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1683313730153590786) 2023-07-24T03:10Z 17.3K followers, 43.8K engagements "If the Clash had only only been a cover band theyd still be the only band that matters. Their versions of Police On My Back Look Here and "Revolution Rock" opened up worlds to me which might have remained secret indefinitely. Their great legacy is as cultural codebreakers" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1685849138955423746) 2023-07-31T03:05Z 20.7K followers, 46.8K engagements "It's MLB trade deadline Tuesday and I for one can think of no finer way to celebrate then with the updated Best Of Bar/None Records playlist at Spotify You won't need to surrender your entire farm system to hear Alex Chilton The Feelies Yo La Tengo and the Paranoid Style Go" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1686463956745961472) 2023-08-01T19:48Z 16.6K followers, [----] engagements "A surrealist tragedy on the order "After The Gold Rush" the paradoxical urban loneliness of Wilco's "Ashes Of American Flags" plays like a Bellow short story by way of a Burroughs cut-up-exercise. The best of its many fine epigrams: "Speaking of tomorrow/ How will it ever come"" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1686892998020231169) 2023-08-03T00:28Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "A song that sounds scared of what it knows Springsteen's 'Atlantic City' is the moment in which the ultra-violence always latent in his urban picaresques turns manifest and terrifying. Some say to live outside the law you must be honest. Others incur debts no honest man can pay" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1687281179970400256) 2023-08-04T01:55Z 20.7K followers, 38.9K engagements "47 years on Randy Newman's 'Louisiana 1927' remains a subtle miracle. Three minutes of wry alchemy which manages to recount a tragedy lost to history and a people forgotten to time without resorting to cheap sentimentality or class driven condescension. A perfect American song" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1688365109754712064) 2023-08-07T01:43Z 20.7K followers, 98.4K engagements "My knees buckled at the news of Robbie Robertson's passing. Like his songs he seemed to me undefinable by age. I won't argue it's the best but "Stage Fright" is The Band LP which has brought me the most joy. Here's a piece I wrote about the [----] reissue. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-band-stage-fright-50th-anniversary-edition/ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-band-stage-fright-50th-anniversary-edition/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1689381581348110336) 2023-08-09T21:02Z 20.7K followers, 39.1K engagements "Released a month apart Joe Jackson's 'Night And Day' and Elvis Costello's 'Imperial Bedroom' are twinned visions of a punk-rock Tin Pan Alley weaponized by two wits worthy of Cole Porter and Moss Hart. Countless great songs on both but the standard is Jackson's "Stepping Out"" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1689799816895696896) 2023-08-11T00:44Z 20.7K followers, 41.4K engagements "I was super flattered to get a name check in Margaret Sullivan's beautiful meditation on the passing of Robbie Robertson and the lonely feeling of losing our great musical heroes one at a time" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1690052085201412099) 2023-08-11T17:26Z 17.3K followers, 19.4K engagements "A radical cross-pollination of Eisenhower-era values and incipient punk menace The Modern Lovers' debut LP remains one of R&R's most thrilling contrarian unicorns. A wholesale rejection of Flower Power ethos and a full-throated defense of new suburbia. Found In The Supermarket" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1690181211648356352) 2023-08-12T01:59Z 17.3K followers, 21.6K engagements "Built To Spill's 'There's Nothing Wrong With Love' LP is the Idaho dirtbag sequel to 'Born To Run'. A series of moving small-town picaresques all about pinpointing the workable ratio of romance drugs and ambition needed to achieve escape velocity from a dead-end town. A classic" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1690549720203108352) 2023-08-13T02:23Z 20.7K followers, 49.2K engagements "Life-changing for me in a literal sense Sleater-Kinney's 'Dig Me Out' is one of punk's grooviest noisiest and most restorative rallying cries. A generational hand-off from the B-52's and The Clash where the future is unwritten and the cool clubs book misfits only. A lodestar" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1692324328300319228) 2023-08-17T23:55Z 17.3K followers, 19.1K engagements ""2000 Light Years From Home" wrings five legitimately mind-blowing minutes out of the Stones' mostly fruitless forays into psychedelic costume drama and casually invents the Madchester scene in the process. Their most unlikely masterpiece. Alternate title: "Tomorrow Never Asks"" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1692718619870822818) 2023-08-19T02:02Z 17.3K followers, 23.1K engagements "Forty-five years later Springsteen's 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town' and Costello's 'This Years Model' feel like companion pieces. Two overlapping visions of a nightmare future of debased politics abandonment of the working class and the prizing of vanity over all other virtues" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1693041247055688065) 2023-08-19T23:24Z 20.7K followers, 60.5K engagements "Happy 71st birthday to Joe Strummer the individual who perhaps more than any other inspired and clarified for me what it is I wanted to do with my life. Reposting an essay I wrote about the 40th anniversary of London Calling for The Ringer. Oh mi corazon. https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/12/17/21024982/the-clash-london-calling-40th-anniversary https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/12/17/21024982/the-clash-london-calling-40th-anniversary" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1693632702396703118) 2023-08-21T14:34Z 20.7K followers, 72.8K engagements "Happy 69th birthday to Elvis Costello the songwriter who's probably exerted more influence over my own work than any other. Here is a piece I wrote about the 40th anniversary of 'Get Happy' for The Ringer a few years ago. "The speed freak's White Album." https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/2/19/21140313/elvis-costello-get-happy-40th-anniversary https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/2/19/21140313/elvis-costello-get-happy-40th-anniversary" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1695202353354363107) 2023-08-25T22:31Z 18.4K followers, 44.2K engagements "Positioned strategically between Sgt. Pepper's psych and the folk reckoning of John Wesley Harding The Kinks' Something Else is a darkhorse candidate for the best record of [----]. Best of all is 'Waterloo Sunset': the whole of the human condition rendered in three perfect verses" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1697789427047665743) 2023-09-02T01:51Z 17.3K followers, 34.5K engagements "A moving counterpart to the dyspeptic hilarity of "The Ballad Of John & Yoko Paul McCartneys Two Of Us is an offhand masterpiece nailing the balance between nostalgia and nagging doubt so characteristic of his finest compositions. Memories drifting slowly. We're going home" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1698130875639025716) 2023-09-03T00:28Z 17.3K followers, 34.7K engagements "A staging of KIng Lear at a monster-truck rally. ICYMI I wrote about the extreme hilarity abject vulgarity and subtle melancholy of HBOs The Righteous Gemstones. The nightmare of Americas Post-WWII Prosperity Gospel taken to it's logical extreme" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1698512503980900688) 2023-09-04T01:45Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "Thirty-nine minutes of institutionalized misogyny death spiral capitalism and love songs as mesmerizing as any written in the 20th century The Pretenders Learning To Crawl is a miracle of perfect hooks charged recollections and a mother's determined optimism. A masterpiece" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1698897507399471510) 2023-09-05T03:15Z 16.6K followers, 37.2K engagements "The true conjurer's trick of Pavement's 'Slanted & Enchanted' is the illusion that songs so great were arrived at by accident rather than Stephen Malkmus's Stalinesque 50-year-plan for world domination. As he concedes on 'Zurich Is Stained': "You think it's easy/ but your wrong"" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1699576173452255317) 2023-09-07T00:11Z 17.3K followers, 25.7K engagements "A fraught negative image of their effervescent debut 'Three Feet High And Rising' 'De La Soul Is Dead' is a sui generis act of world building and uneasy vibes whose closest antecedents are Sly Stones 'Theres A Riot Goin On' and Neils 'Tonights The Night'. Keepin' the Faith" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1699969832446222791) 2023-09-08T02:16Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "Written in the style of King-Goffin and dressed up in the fineries of Langer-Winstanley Elvis Costello's "Everyday I Write The Book" all is hair-tearing mania posing as palatable confection. The single funniest in-joke for all of us considered 'literary songwriters'. A classic" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1700288410294902975) 2023-09-08T23:22Z 19.6K followers, 16.3K engagements "Awestruck by circumstances of their own making the Stones Sticky Fingers navigates its forty-six minute run time with the narcotized exhilaration of a concussed boxer fighting on. Dead flowers hospital midnights and moonlight miles left to go. The best LP ever about fatigue" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1700706047478915410) 2023-09-10T03:01Z 17.3K followers, 40.6K engagements "With its stream-of-consciousness poetry and reckless-exquisite instrumentation Lou Reed's 'The Blue Mask' is rock's best Freudian breakthrough: a man desperately reassembling the pieces of his fractious mind before it becomes impossible. Catchy scary and moving. Plus Bob Quine" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1701404154269192212) 2023-09-12T01:15Z 17.3K followers, 16.6K engagements "A masterful confection born of bone deep childhood trauma The Kinks Come Dancing is a marvel of sheer narrative economy condensing three decades of family angst emotional trauma and cultural drift into five minutes of happy-on-the-surface singalong. Chekov never did better" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1701772368249524294) 2023-09-13T01:38Z 17.3K followers, 15.9K engagements "Having fled his ball-busting hometown gathered the band and proved it all night to the point of exhaustion Springsteens Darkness On The Edge Of Town LP is the baffled slow-burn nervous breakdown of a man beginning to doubt what hes sure of. Everything means less than zero" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1702111429187309883) 2023-09-14T00:06Z 17.3K followers, 20.9K engagements "The spiritual quest of Across The Universe meets the cocaine-psychosis of the 70's John Lennons #9 Dream is weird astroturf Beatles connecting the aspirational gibberish of the hippie era with the queasy happy talk of the New Age. A pastoral sonic panic attack. Brilliant" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1702508153961681073) 2023-09-15T02:22Z 17.3K followers, 24.6K engagements "The Jann Wenner stuff is obviously outrageous if in keeping with his long held standing as a philistine around this stuff. More important is that these specific attitudes about female songwriters and "articulation" remain very much a critical default in many influential outlets" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1703128784323436927) 2023-09-16T19:28Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements "Having advanced as far into their subterranean death trip as Mick and Keith were prepared to see through Exile On Main Streets 'Let It Loose is the moment when ten years of ecstasy tragedy and anger pours down like a biblical rain. A baptism and a benediction. Soul survivors" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1703243646617723208) 2023-09-17T03:05Z 17.3K followers, 21.2K engagements "A devastating tale of love and betrayal that doubles as a quiet demolition of Manifest Destiny myths Townes Van Zandts Pancho & Lefty remakes John Fords Old West as a tragicomedy of halfwit grifters indifferent law enforcement and no meaning at all. A perfect American song" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1703563084814549313) 2023-09-18T00:14Z 20.7K followers, 37.7K engagements "It is seven years to the day that the Paranoid Style's video for "The Thrill Is Back" was rendered by a hearty lot of stalwarts somewhere deep in the heart of Red Hook. Special thanks to our genius director @mileskahn who truly "led" us on this Journey" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1703598954485522464) 2023-09-18T02:36Z 17.3K followers, 10.3K engagements "@Antonharmony Yeah dude totally agree. One of his best" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1705390700186173484) 2023-09-23T01:16Z 17.3K followers, [--] engagements "How's your Friday evening Need a little jolt My recommendation: tune into the latest edition of the Best Of Bar/None playlist featuring the Feelies Yo La Tengo Alex Chilton dB's Ezra Furman and the Paranoid Style's hot new single "I Love The Sound Of Structured Class." Go" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1705393984460517874) 2023-09-23T01:29Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Class resentment had always figured into the Replacements work. On 'Tim' that rage and resignation boiled over. Coulda' been a contender." ICYMI: at the New Yorker I wrote about the new reissue and the open wound of Paul Westerberg's working man's blues. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/listening-booth/the-replacements-are-still-a-puzzle https://www.newyorker.com/culture/listening-booth/the-replacements-are-still-a-puzzle" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1705423589854302632) 2023-09-23T03:27Z 20.7K followers, 87.9K engagements ""Is Byrne attempting to wake himself up from a dream or is he intending to render himself unconscious" Re-posting my [----] Ringer piece about the thrilling anxious vision of Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense". The new cut looks amazing" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1706473851440284109) 2023-09-26T01:00Z 17.3K followers, 13.3K engagements "All wry aphorisms tumbling hooks and arch genre experiments Elvis Costellos 1982s Imperial Bedroom is the moment when his incurable polymath tendencies finally overrode his New Wave Dylan aspirations and resituated him as the punk-rock Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead [--] Revisited" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1707184756163547585) 2023-09-28T00:05Z 17.3K followers, 24.7K engagements "Why is it that I feel so god damned ALIVE It's Ryder Cup time Over at the Ringer we've got a run down of all twenty four competitors in golf's biannual continental measuring contest. Thanks to my amazing playing partners @megschuster and @matt_dollinger" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1707378057181380709) 2023-09-28T12:53Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "The paradox of the 'White Album' is that there's no way to extract its weaker material while maintaining the menacing dream-logic that makes the whole such a powerfully dislocating psychic experience. I wonder if it its the first album to consciously employ bad songs as a tactic" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1707584320771142010) 2023-09-29T02:33Z 20.7K followers, 479.1K engagements "Thirty five years later the drum machine doom-klezmer of Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" remains a strikingly radical gesture. From the crypt-keeper vocals to the reverse-Sermon-On-The-Mount-sentiment it's the sound of Satan trying out his standup act and absolutely killing" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1709017774918336897) 2023-10-03T01:29Z 20.7K followers, 36K engagements "Attention New Paranoid Style single "Print The Legend" is out today- a tribute to my hero Joe Ely Featuring Peter Holsapple from the dB's and Lisa Walker from Wussy Preorders for "The Interrogator" CD and LP are available TODAY Be bold and act" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1709214278639571222) 2023-10-03T14:30Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements "Wow It's a brand new dispatch from Paranoid Style HQ from Elizabeth Nelson herself all about her new LP 'The Interrogator' which is coming out on Bar-None Records in February This is full of PERTINENT INFORMATION about The Interrogator and HOW TO preorder LPs and CDs Watch" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1709618264857321645) 2023-10-04T17:15Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "Bandcamp Friday you say Well then it is only common sense to head over the Bar/None Records page and pre-order the new Paranoid Style LP "The Interrogator" You might want to add titles by The Feelies Alex Chilton and other stalwarts while you're over there. That's my advice" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1710302821638078808) 2023-10-06T14:35Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "Conjuring ZZ Top and the Dead much in the same way that the Minutemen chanelled CCR and Van Halen the Meat Puppets' weird boogie odyssey Huevos is one of the great American guitar records. An alternate history of punk where its major deity isnt Johnny Thunders its JJ Cale" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1710832207168729229) 2023-10-08T01:39Z 17.3K followers, 38.6K engagements "A songcycle of endless psychic and geographic dislocations the rudderless marriage at the center of Bob Dylan's 'Blood On The Tracks' serves as a central metaphor for a generation of Americans who achieved escape velocity but wound up nowhere at all. The highway is for gamblers" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1711230473052062093) 2023-10-09T04:01Z 17.3K followers, 22.5K engagements "An astonishing feat of lyrical economy Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" weaves together the poignant sweep of a fraying love affair with the reverberations of multi-generational family trauma into a five minute allegory of cyclical poverty and undiminished hope. A great American song" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1712973990942171351) 2023-10-13T23:29Z 20.7K followers, 27.2K engagements "What's this now My first ever cover story for Golf Digest Oh hell yes I wrote about the 20-year old LPGA phenom Rose Zhang and the mind-scrambling challenge of life as a protege and product in the modern consumer age. Please consider purchasing a copy at your local newsstand" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1713718290428620995) 2023-10-16T00:47Z 17.3K followers, 18.9K engagements "Seven songs expressed over a mesmerizingly brutal thirty-six minutes The Stooges Fun House is all full-force groove aspirational self-harm and glory. A candid expression of the latent sadomasochism which was always rock and roll's best last argument for existence. A classic" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1714825313803259950) 2023-10-19T02:06Z 17.3K followers, 18.8K engagements "Happy birthday to the great Tom Petty whose best songs can feel like a mineral element completely of his own invention. Here's a piece I wrote about the astonishing 'Damn The Torpedoes' a few years back for The Ringer. Happily remembered and sadly missed" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1715419494292599117) 2023-10-20T17:27Z 16.5K followers, 27.7K engagements "New Stones is really cool and way better than it needed to be. The vituperation of the Pitchfork review and attendant lecture on mercenrary Boomerism strikes me as bafflingly unearned particularly as the same writer recently wrote a fairly hagiographic profile of.Graham Nash" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1715510820824568221) 2023-10-20T23:30Z 16.5K followers, 56.2K engagements "Like "I'm Waiting For The Man" reimagined for the Pat Garret & Billy The Kid soundtrack Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" is one of the great sad ballads of the 1970's: part debauched LA travelogue part working class romance part Bizarro World Eagles. Rock-by-way-of Raymond Chandler" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1715913041215160366) 2023-10-22T02:08Z 16.5K followers, 45.5K engagements "A hook filled masterpiece as subversive as pure pop gets Nick Lowes Cruel To Be Kind weds a soaring Everleys-worthy melody to literally the worst couples counseling session ever conducted. If only Sinatra had lived long enough to sing it. Because you're mine I cross the line" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1717362723531415601) 2023-10-26T02:09Z 16.5K followers, 21.1K engagements "Had REM been mugged in the studio by Motorhead it might've ended up sounding something like Husker Du's [----] major-label debut 'Candy Apple Grey': thirty-seven minutes of abrasive guitars brilliant hooks and zero concessions to mass appeal. The night before the Daydream Nation" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1718047664795754823) 2023-10-27T23:30Z 20.7K followers, 46.2K engagements "The Stones No Expectations is the Hippie Dream inflection point when utopianism gives way to politcal violence hedonism meets hard drugs and rootless travel ceases being a gas and starts becoming a generational identity crisis. Their saddest truest song. Brian's last stand" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1719511613563166968) 2023-11-01T00:28Z 16.6K followers, 20.3K engagements "Musically and thematically peripatetic Joni Mitchells Hejira is amongst the most extraoridinarily sprawling musical and emoitionally documents of utopianism meeting head on with the realities of narcissistic individualism. Freedoms just another word when everything is lost" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1719924343474405841) 2023-11-02T03:48Z 16.6K followers, 24.9K engagements "Faith fear and fatalism sung in beautifully doomed harmony Gram Parsons Grievous Angel traces a tragic crooked line from Hank to Hendrix to the end. The best LP ever recorded about the existential dangers of hanging out with Keith Richards. A wake for himself and Elvis too" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1721344260480368931) 2023-11-06T01:50Z 16.6K followers, 24.5K engagements "Crucial news from Paranoid Style HQ: Opening for the Drive-By Truckers at their Heathens homecoming show in Athens pre-order info for 'The Interrogator' LP on Bar/None Records and advice you need for getting and staying ahead of the curve. An informational dispatch for the bold" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1726080889434644565) 2023-11-19T03:32Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements "The astonishing tale of David Lynch's 'Dune' a wonderful overview of the history of Asian cinema and Coppolas ranging from Francis to Sophia to Nicolas Cage Over at the Wall Street Journal I wrote about a spate of giftworthy film books for the holidays" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1726468897157603342) 2023-11-20T05:13Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements "Like George Jones fronting the Velvets at their most restrained Kris Kristoffersons Sunday Morning Coming Down is a pitch-perfect spiritual about being the last one to grasp that your life needs to change. As Zevon once put it: The shit that used to work/ It wont work now" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1726471702723666196) 2023-11-20T05:25Z 16.7K followers, 17.6K engagements "PARANOID STYLE: SPECIAL DISPATCH CD COPIES OF 'THE INTERROGATOR'+ TEE SHIRT FOR $35 AT THE BLEAKEST BLACKEST FRIDAY SALE TO DATE Watch thisvideo to find out how and more importantly why this bargain is taking place. Then spend recklessly and with abandon. "It is demented"" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1728176405824123008) 2023-11-24T22:18Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements "Reverent defiant prayerful deviant remorseful and ultimately broken to the point of scrapping shit off the shoes of those who abuse us the Rolling Stones' Sweet Virginia is the easily the best gospel song to advise on smuggling speed. So many ways to touch the face of God" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1728244835461820467) 2023-11-25T02:50Z 16.7K followers, 12K engagements "Kill Yr Idols was a thesis on creative destruction but such mandates are difficult to maintain as those idols slip away. Here he does what he can to keep alive their flickering flame." Enjoyed Thurston Moore's memoir a great deal and reviewed it at WSJ" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1729303695614001221) 2023-11-28T00:58Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements "Quite possibly the most caustic LP ever recorded about the American temperament Randy Newmans Sail Away is twelve ready-made sketches of false prophets psychopaths con-men total losers and everything else we tend to consider patriotic. What a long strange grift it's been" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1729685418327617821) 2023-11-29T02:15Z 16.8K followers, 33.4K engagements "A balladeer of staggering depth and pathos Shane MacGowan's best songs laid bare the hiding-in-plain-sight throughline between Johnny Mathis and Johnny Rotten and rendered comi-tragic class-addled chronicles the vaulting equal of Merle Haggard's best. In every way astonishing" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1730403912664965213) 2023-12-01T01:50Z 20.7K followers, 38.5K engagements "All cosmic loneliness and gut punch personal inventory Pavement's "Here" is Steve Malkmus and band's first unvarnished masterpiece. A miracle alchemy of VU's 3rd and Westerberg's museum-of-losers balladry. All bad jokes and long goodbyes. A "Dark End Of The Street" for the 90's" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1732600075598114978) 2023-12-07T03:17Z 16.8K followers, 23.8K engagements "Four minutes of psycho groove which flips over the rock of 60s utopianism to reveal the infestation laying beneath Neil Youngs Revolution Blues recasts Laurel Canyon as a condemned hellscape of privilege and naivet. Famous stars and bloody fountains. California here I come" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1733306387579490765) 2023-12-09T02:03Z 16.8K followers, 22.5K engagements "All sanctioned assassination and heaven bound song the Mekons Rock n Roll LP remains the single best account of the profound spiritual death attending the abject cruelty of the Reagan-Thatcher era. Destroy your safe and happy life/ Before It is too late." Words to live by" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1734427065183568091) 2023-12-12T04:16Z 16.8K followers, 19K engagements "Six staggering minutes chronicling a five thousand year continuum of human oppression from the dawn of man to the Mississippi Delta Bob Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell" is the saddest song written about the failed promises of America. This land is your land. This land is condemned" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1734765699896053919) 2023-12-13T02:42Z 16.8K followers, 30.1K engagements "Encompassing all the menace spiritual seeking sexual confusion and political anger of the early Who 1971s collection Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy is a perfect document of the most subversive British Invasion band ever to conquer the States. Bo Diddley meets Belle & Sebastian" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1736228490658075029) 2023-12-17T03:35Z 16.8K followers, 18.7K engagements "Chuck Berry meets T.S. Eliot at Satan's crossroads the Paranoid Style's new LP 'The Interrogator' reckons with the apocalyptic double-dealing of an onset age of total war wild greed and bespoke bourgeois pleasure. Yes I think it can be very easily done" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1736939839923142747) 2023-12-19T02:41Z 16.8K followers, 13.6K engagements "ICYMI On the occasion of The Paranoid Style's recent single "Print The Legend" Patterson Hood and I spent a quality hour breaking down the story songs of Tom T Hall Merle Haggard The Silos and his own band DBT over at the Southwest Review. Check it out" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1737340079117402414) 2023-12-20T05:12Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "The miraculous consequence of Billy Gibbons' on-its-face-insane desire to make ZZ Top sound more like Depeche Mode 1983's Eliminator is all ecstatic hooks Fairlight boogie and the christening of an entirely novel musical vernacular. Stevie Ray Vaughn meets shoegaze. TexasUK" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1737656666651341100) 2023-12-21T02:10Z 17.3K followers, 31.5K engagements "Given my abiding love of Elmore Leonard Walton Goggins Timothy Olyphant and nearly every other element involved it's borderline bizarre that I've just now binged 'Justified'. What a show. Every bit the brilliant ethnographic American x-ray of 'The Sopranos' or 'Breaking Bad'" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1737994002681487503) 2023-12-22T00:30Z [--] followers, 29K engagements "Six minutes of abject dread and total awe standing quiveringly face to face with the reality of man Bob Dylans Every Grain Of Sand is the scariest and most nourishing song to emerge from his VIP access to the spirit world. Love hate terror ecstasy and hope. Its all true" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1739477246673399828) 2023-12-26T02:44Z 17.3K followers, 49.3K engagements "Happy holidays to all rational Paranoid Style and hardcore Rod Stewart fans. I know that one tends to follow from the other. Here's the mod and I working the same merchant marine look over Christmas in '21. Never a dull moment indeed. 'The Interrogator' available on Bar-None now" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1740219977779847650) 2023-12-28T03:55Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "Few songs contain more multitudes then Big Star's "The Ballad Of El Goodo" four verses of celestial devotion self-help talk and petulant score settling which might be the most purely melodic full-fledged breakdown ever set to tape. Beauty and terror. Unbelievable odds. Hold on" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740550376234058174) 2023-12-29T01:48Z 20.7K followers, 47.6K engagements "Happy birthday to the great Robert Quine whose playing navigated a wholly novel sonic sprawl between blistered beauty and sublime noise. On many days my fave guitarist. Here's something I wrote about him and Lou Reed on stage together for Oxford American" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1741182811988472212) 2023-12-30T19:41Z 17.3K followers, 25.5K engagements "Happy birthday to Paul Westerberg whose intuitive feel for the economic and social underdog informs the subtle politics of his best material. Here is a piece I wrote for The New Yorker about the workingman's blues at the heart of the Replacements' 'Tim.'" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741986762791035070) 2024-01-02T00:56Z [--] followers, 31K engagements "So much of Zevon's subversive magic lies in the liberating confidence of his cultivated determination to confront life's fears and the false contests of late-Capitalism by simply not giving a shit at all. "I appreciate the best" he once sang "But I'm settling for less." Wisdom" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1743804227074265230) 2024-01-07T01:18Z 17.3K followers, 58K engagements "It's been roughly twenty-four hours since the release of the Paranoid Style's new poultry-themed single "Last Night In Chickentown" and a predictable wave of controversy and hard feeling has followed in its wake. Watch me explain everything and then rustle up a copy for yourself" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1745246888998084775) 2024-01-11T00:50Z 19.6K followers, [----] engagements "Condensing four hundred years of colonial cruelty into five and a half devastatingly minutesThe Clashs Straight To Hell intuitively connects the miseries of the 19th century Congo 20th century Vietnam and Englands dispossessed working class. Maybe Strummers greatest lyric" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746011565512343665) 2024-01-13T03:29Z [--] followers, 28K engagements ""Where whats real and whats weird are largely indistinguishable." Rogue criminals questionable saints and the rest of the American medicine show writ large. Over at Pitchfork I published a long meditation on Bob Dylan's "Desire" LP. Check it out" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1746409659563479109) 2024-01-14T05:51Z 17.3K followers, 76.2K engagements "A visionary elegy Lou Reeds New York posits Manhattan as a test case for an America riven by income inequality ecological chaos and downward-mobility. Smart enough to pinpoint unregulated Wall Street as the culprit. Sad enough to recognize it was all fixable if wed wanted" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1747085049332146291) 2024-01-16T02:35Z 17.3K followers, 27.3K engagements "All institutionalized misogyny death-spiral capitalism and open-veined meditations on love and mercy The Pretenders Learning To Crawl LP is a miracle of perfect hooks charged recollections and one young mother's ardent hope for a future actually worth having. A masterpiece" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1747476327081386151) 2024-01-17T04:29Z 17.3K followers, 13.4K engagements "Why not soundtrack your Sunday to some of the Best Of Bar/None Records Feelies Alex Chilton Yo La Tengo brand new Paranoid Style and so much other great music from the label you can trust Check it out here Sunday afternoons are for @paranoiacs https://t.co/9p7AxqzYL3 Sunday afternoons are for @paranoiacs https://t.co/9p7AxqzYL3" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1749184148781109617) 2024-01-21T21:36Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "Brilliantly covering the waterfront from infectious R&B to confessional folk to the psychological depths of whatever lurks in the mystic Van Morrisons Saint Dominics Preview is a muscular display of awe inspiring talent tinged with onset madness. Much more of both to follow" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1749309806932869162) 2024-01-22T05:55Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "Yep Your eyes don't deceive you. Practice for the Paranoid Style's February 16th show opening for the Drive-By Truckers in Athens GA has commenced in earnest. Here's me and PS guitarist Peter Holsapple making our intentions absolutely clear. Grab your tickets while they remain" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1750703906068258962) 2024-01-26T02:15Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "@Bake_1971 No wine before its time" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750720423757566347) 2024-01-26T03:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "We are less than a week out from the release of The Paranoid Style's "The Interrogator" LP on Bar-None Records Why not get ready with a Best Of from "The Label You Can Trust" The Feelies Yo La Tengo They Might Be Giants Alex Chilton Petra Haden and brand new Paranoid Style Fine Independent Music since [----] w/ songs from @TheFeeliesNJ @kolezzzanka @xxofMontrealxx @pardonerbandsf @TheRealYLT @paranoiacs. https://t.co/GA8picCbvM Fine Independent Music since [----] w/ songs from @TheFeeliesNJ @kolezzzanka @xxofMontrealxx @pardonerbandsf @TheRealYLT @paranoiacs. https://t.co/GA8picCbvM" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1751336161455263815) 2024-01-27T20:07Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "As the decades pass the destabilizing mystery of CCR's weird genius only deepens. Songs that telescope through time and space with puzzling omniscience. Songs of awe and dread exultant joy retribution and boundless grief. Songs which having been rendered seem always to existed" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1751421235936833573) 2024-01-28T01:45Z 17.3K followers, 26.1K engagements "Posting an excruciatingly special episode of my hit program 'Inferno Side Chats' addressing some of the antics and frustrations of the Federal Government in my beloved Washington DC. More questions coming Buy the Paranoid Style's 'The Interrogator' now" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1751439469104746938) 2024-01-28T02:58Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements "With its towering hooks bone-deep grooves and indelibly humane character studies Princes 'Sign O The Times' is a musical house with many mansions. Stomping P-Funk jazzy Joni ballads Beatle-leaning pop and Sam Cooke soul. Pure transcendence distilled into two perfect hours" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1751809666961596904) 2024-01-29T03:29Z 17.3K followers, 25.1K engagements "Tremendous thanks to Ken Tucker and NPR's Fresh Air for the wonderful review of 'The Interrogator' on today's episode I really couldn't be more grateful. The album is out this Friday on Bar-None Records Listen to the review and then go grab yourself a copy I reviewed the new @paranoiacs album today on @nprfreshair : https://t.co/imNORgPuBw https://t.co/ABQiCA0iEM I reviewed the new @paranoiacs album today on @nprfreshair : https://t.co/imNORgPuBw https://t.co/ABQiCA0iEM" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1752056128597336463) 2024-01-29T19:48Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements ""Elizabeth Nelson's declarative sentences reveal themselves to be artfully composed verse packed with wordplay jokes and an undercurrent of serious dread." Huge thanks to NPR's Fresh Air for their rave review of 'The Interrogator' on today's episode https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227543861/the-paranoid-style-blends-rock-with-literary-flair-with-the-interrogator https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227543861/the-paranoid-style-blends-rock-with-literary-flair-with-the-interrogator" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1752067219343999266) 2024-01-29T20:32Z 19.6K followers, [----] engagements ""This is the Paranoid Style's most tuneful album to date in part because of its new lead guitarist Peter Holsapple co-founder of the great pop rock band The dB's." Tough but fair. ICYMI: check out NPR's Fresh Air's rave review of the 'The Interrogator.'" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1752147080271778187) 2024-01-30T01:49Z 17.3K followers, 17.2K engagements "The Paranoid Style motorvate down the same sonic expressway to your heart that Chuck Berry built and followers like Dave Edmunds sped down to such effect." Thanks to Charles Hughes and No Fences Review for this amazing review of 'The Interrogator' today" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1753468135372451911) 2024-02-02T17:19Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "Thanks very much to NPR Music for recommending 'The Interrogator' on Friday's All Songs Considered Bonus points for accurately characterizing my equal running obsession with basically every era of Van Morrison. I know I'm weird. Check out the show here" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1753540121343783221) 2024-02-02T22:05Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements "Reconciling his childhood fantasy of what lies across the Atlantic with the crass avarice of his actual findings Elvis Costellos King Of America pits capitalisms moral nullity against the ugliness in his own heart and everyone loses. A roots-rock landmark. James Burton too" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1754343970862203167) 2024-02-05T03:19Z 17.4K followers, 20.1K engagements "Dumbstruck by circumstances of their own device the Stones' Sticky Fingers navigates its forty-six minute run time with the narcotized moxie of a concussed boxer blindly flailing on. Dead flowers hospitals nights and moonlight miles left to go. The best LP ever about fatigue" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1755048578098053259) 2024-02-07T01:59Z 17.4K followers, 14.3K engagements "Depending on if you're groovy you may or may not want to check out the new edition of my random newsletter 'Please Take My Advice.' All about the ways and the means the balance of things Peter Holsapple and the new Paranoid Style LP 'The Interrogator.'" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1755081717889519884) 2024-02-07T04:11Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements "Mojo Nixon had a unique ability to be irreverent and even wildly subversive without ever seeming to lose faith in the human endeavor. Certainly he was a significant influence on my young mind as I wrote about in my song "Turpitude". I loved him. Rave on" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1755672744849473813) 2024-02-08T19:19Z 17.5K followers, 11K engagements "Seventy-nine riveting minutes abjuring the standard talking-head music-documentary-form in favor of the far more terrifying prospect of all source footage Ethan Coen's new Jerry Lee Lewis doc 'Trouble In Mind" is one part musical one part horror pic and all Killer. Masterwork" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1756494187984286083) 2024-02-11T01:43Z 17.5K followers, 10.4K engagements "Night at the switching yard. Rehearsals for the Paranoid Style opening for Drive-By Truckers this coming Friday. Old classics and new standards ready Peter Holsapple on guitar. Attend if you can. Go see The Interrogator if you can't. Go in tell the truth come out feel better" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1757253343431283027) 2024-02-13T04:00Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements "All bone deep hooks desperate longing and pure contempt The Pretenders Talk Of The Town is the best song about losing someone you love and finding yourself in the process. When Chrissie Hynde exults Youve changed your place in this world my entire life flashes before me" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1757592116014764061) 2024-02-14T02:26Z 17.5K followers, 10.4K engagements "Forty five minutes of locomotive riffs lilting laments and hooks as towering as the Hoover Dam itself Sugars Copper Blue LP is the ultimate actualization of Bob Moulds singular Motothead-meets-The Hollies vision. Heartbreaking as Tunnel Of Love. Hard as a High Voltage" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1758337776884326810) 2024-02-16T03:49Z 17.5K followers, 22.6K engagements "Amazing things from when the Paranoid Style went down to Georgia: [--]. We stumbled into town. [--]. We killed it with Peter H. and crew. [--]. I duetted with Patterson Hood on Suzy Quatro's "Stumblin' In. [--]. We had a Mike Mills encounter. I believe they call that the "Athens Homerun."" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1759059667009880195) 2024-02-18T03:38Z 17.6K followers, 12.4K engagements "Insisting upon the happiest of birthdays for the insanely talented and generally notorious national institution that is Peter Holsapple. A stellar dude killer bandmate and the kind of guy you want by your side when you're opening for Drive-By Truckers in Athens. Until next time" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1759776593449275450) 2024-02-20T03:06Z 17.6K followers, 11.7K engagements "A major-label throwaway turned-enduring underdog classic Bash & Pops Friday Night Is Killing Me beats the Black Crowes at their-own-Faces-conjuring game and remains the best post-Replacements solo record. Tommy Stinson muses on a life he never asked for but can't ever leave" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1760508919506448730) 2024-02-22T03:36Z 17.6K followers, 16.8K engagements "A voyeuristic devotional freighted with bone-deep confession Gram Parsons Brass Buttons is the saddest song I know of about losing someone you love before you could tell them everything they needed to know no matter how weird. Deep secrets. Terrible beauty. Unscalable grief" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1761957410611023893) 2024-02-26T03:32Z 17.6K followers, [----] engagements "Lou Reed's "What's Good" ranks along the best songs written about life's irreconcilable contradictions: the vulnerability and joy of devotion the unscalable rage and pain of capricious loss and the desire to do the entire thing over again just for one more hour or one last day" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1762288518158864494) 2024-02-27T01:28Z 17.6K followers, 16.9K engagements "Forty-six minutes of MC5-style broadsides visionary world music sprawling dub and instant classic rock the Clashs [----] LP Combat Rock is the exhilarating sound of a totally exhausted band who still wouldnt stand for less than everything. If theyd only taken two years off" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1763368611266076896) 2024-03-01T01:00Z 17.6K followers, 24.2K engagements "Forty rad minutes of cracked actors midnight cowboys ecstatic soul and subversive singalongs for anyone who's ever had a heart the adjacency to mainstream pop on VUs Loaded LP only underscores the deep reservoir of perversity at its core. Doug Yule is criminally underrated" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1764493045934772379) 2024-03-04T03:28Z 17.6K followers, 10.4K engagements "As subversive as anything released by his idol Lou Reed Jonathan Richman's songs on the Modern Lovers' self-titled LP replace the urban-junkie-drama of VU with something far creepier: Eisenhower-era American myths-meet-the-suburban-excesses of the 70's. Found in the supermarket" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1765566810567422450) 2024-03-07T02:35Z 17.6K followers, 18.7K engagements "A breathtaking gut punch of personal inventory and cosmic loneliness Pavement's "Here" is Malkmus's first unvarnished masterpiece: a miracle alchemy of VU's 3rd and Westerberg's museum-of-losers balladry all bad jokes and long goodbyes. A "Dark End Of The Streets" for the 90's" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1766301365314224343) 2024-03-09T03:13Z 17.6K followers, 16.1K engagements "A song that sounds scared of what it knows Springsteen's 'Atlantic City' is the moment in which the ultra-violence always latent in his urban picaresques turns manifest and terrifying. Some say to live outside the law you must be honest. Others incur debts no honest man can pay" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1767354439583621566) 2024-03-12T00:58Z 17.7K followers, 21.9K engagements "Neil Young's 'Hey Hey My My' remains the bleakest and best of his meditations on 60's indulgence and spiritual decay. When he sings "rock and roll can never die" it's with the shell-shocked assurance of one who has tried everything in his power and can't kill the fucking thing" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1769177072440607065) 2024-03-17T01:40Z 20.7K followers, 26.4K engagements "Good piece by Marc Hogan on the stultifying role of private equity in an ever-shrinking music industry ecosystem. Short of legislative and/or regulatory intervention the landscape for non-consensus manufactured musicians will be soon fully uninhabitable" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1769772041886990747) 2024-03-18T17:05Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements "A shambling postscript to the comparatively focused trash-rock landmark Some Girls the Stones Emotional Rescue LP readily out-sleazes the New York Dolls at their own game and suggests what the Faces might've looked like had they lasted one bar fight longer. Simple and true" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1769900182534033605) 2024-03-19T01:34Z 17.7K followers, 22.8K engagements "All stimulation and the Attractions perpetual motion machine Elvis Costellos This Years Model is the moment wherein he fully transmographies from tremulous folky into the manic blur of romantic obsessive insult comedian and doom speaking prophet we'd have to learn to love" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1770276292836925502) 2024-03-20T02:28Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements "Released a month apart Joe Jackson's 'Night And Day' and Elvis Costello's 'Imperial Bedroom' are twinned visions of a punk-rock Tin Pan Alley weaponized by two wits worthy of Cole Porter and Moss Hart. Countless great songs on both but the standard is Jackson's "Stepping Out"" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1770634791106339326) 2024-03-21T02:13Z 17.8K followers, 49.9K engagements "The Replacement's 'Tim' is as powerful an evocation of working class life as any by Springsteen or Pulp. Resentment and joy dwell in nearly every detail: bus route courtships scared-but-stalwart-single-mothers and the watering holes where every night dreams both blossom and die" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1772434725312840052) 2024-03-26T01:25Z 20.7K followers, 44.6K engagements "Five decades later Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927" remains a subtle miracle. Three minutes of wry alchemy which manages to recount a tragedy lost to history and a people forgotten by time without resorting to cheap sentimentality or class condescension. A perfect American song" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1772821465701695890) 2024-03-27T03:02Z 17.8K followers, 18.2K engagements "Conjuring ZZ Top and the Dead in the same way that the Minutemen alchemized CCR and Van Halen the Meat Puppets' oddball boogie odyssey Huevos is one of the great American guitar records. An alternate history of punk wherein its major deity isnt Johnny Thunders its JJ Cale" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1774635437857923543) 2024-04-01T03:10Z 17.9K followers, 12.1K engagements "The Clash's 'Lost In The Supermarket reimagines the nervous highway thrills of Jonathan Richman's "Roadunner" as a forced march through suburban hellscapes and special offers. Perhaps the finest song ever written about the acute paradoxical loneliness of the high consumer age" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1775345535693516816) 2024-04-03T02:12Z 20.7K followers, 29.5K engagements "Happy birthday to Richard Thompson a master songwriter and instrumentalist vibrating on a profoundly strange frequency between the sinister and the sacred. My husband and I attempted the impossible task of ranking his astonishing catalog a few years back. https://www.stereogum.com/1826762/richard-thompson-albums-from-worst-to-best/lists/ https://www.stereogum.com/1826762/richard-thompson-albums-from-worst-to-best/lists/" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1775704461467349000) 2024-04-04T01:58Z 17.9K followers, 37.4K engagements "Happy birthday to Merle Haggard whose wide screen storytelling and underdog anthems comprise perhaps the finest American Songbook of all. I tried ranking his Top Ten songs for Stereogum some years back- a futile gesture but a fun excuse to play his tunes https://www.stereogum.com/1870888/the-10-best-merle-haggard-songs/lists/ https://www.stereogum.com/1870888/the-10-best-merle-haggard-songs/lists/" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1776786715526517132) 2024-04-07T01:38Z 17.9K followers, 26.2K engagements "Six staggering minutes chronicling a five thousand year continuum of human oppression from the dawn of man to the Mississippi Delta Bob Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell" is the saddest song written about the failed promises of America. This land is your land. This land is condemned" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1777514295854555154) 2024-04-09T01:50Z 18K followers, 20.3K engagements "Underscoring Uncle Tupelos role as the inheritor of the Minutemen's union-centric punk consciousness "Graveyard Shift" is four minutes and forty seconds of quick twitch riffs dead end jobs and a darkness thats spread well past the edge of town. NAFTA looms. Together we burn" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1777892368915533979) 2024-04-10T02:52Z 18K followers, 20.1K engagements "Happy birthday to Lowell George whose wandering spirit and slanted and enchanted imagination seems to enliven us more and more with each passing day even as we lament his absence. A few years back I wrote about Lowell and Little Feat for Oxford American. https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-115-winter-2021/lowell-george-in-eight-and-a-half-songs https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-115-winter-2021/lowell-george-in-eight-and-a-half-songs" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1779344507424673839) 2024-04-14T03:02Z 18K followers, 23.4K engagements "Over at the Ringer I wrote about the benevolent wrecking machine that is Scottie Scheffler on the heels of his dominant Sunday at the Masters. He's affable he's unflappable and it might not be too soon to declare him the next legendary American golfer. https://www.theringer.com/2024/4/15/24130560/scottie-scheffler-wins-the-masters-2024 https://www.theringer.com/2024/4/15/24130560/scottie-scheffler-wins-the-masters-2024" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1779909001234268302) 2024-04-15T16:25Z 18K followers, 38.6K engagements "A moving statement of purpose which became a melancholy valediction The Minutemens History Lesson Part [--] is one part Proustian-reminisce and one part punk-rock pep talk. If three corndogs from San Pedro can change the world then at least I should try. I miss D. Boon every day" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1780400904274915779) 2024-04-17T01:00Z 18K followers, 20.3K engagements "From the humble-brag-suicidal-ideation of Poor Poor Pitiful Me to the sorry-if-I-offended you tantrum of "Bad Karma" to the send-the-trust-fund antics of "Lawyers Guns & Money" no songwriter has wrung more withering satire from solipsistic male entitlement than Warren Zevon" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1781116050760700117) 2024-04-19T00:22Z 20.7K followers, 30.4K engagements "Loitering at the back end of Tattoo You like an opportunistic hustler Tops is a personal favorite of mine amidst Rolling Stones' deep cuts: all attitudinal swagger bullshit Jagger come-ons and life affirming groove. The low commitment "Moonlight Mile". Your beast of burden" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1782587403309347119) 2024-04-23T01:48Z 18K followers, 11.7K engagements "Having fled his ball-busting hometown gathered the band and proved it all night to the point of masochistic exhaustion Springsteens Darkness On The Edge Of Town is the slow burning nervous breakdown of a man coming to doubt what hes sure of. Everything means less than zero" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1783688011865079964) 2024-04-26T02:42Z 18.1K followers, 26.3K engagements "The Proustian-beauty of Van Morrison combined with the haunted post-war angst of The Kinks John Cales Paris [----] is one of R&R's strangest and most transporting experiences: nine songs over thirty-two minutes which somehow seem to summarize the global sweep of human history" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1784430258948583725) 2024-04-28T03:51Z 18.1K followers, 18K engagements "Five decades later the enigma of Van Morrison's 'Moondance' remains the disjunction between its joyful mainline into the transcendent mysteries of life and the sour bitter paranoid man who rendered it. Doubly strange: it's not like he just went senile. He was always this way" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1785496845294203125) 2024-05-01T02:29Z 18.1K followers, 31K engagements "A fever dream of creeping spiritual corruption Don Henley's "Boys Of Summer" may be the best song written about the failed revolutions of the 60's and the nightmare of disillusioned consumerism that follows from its wake. The first spasms of the angry investor class. Buckle up" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1785867610485125393) 2024-05-02T03:03Z 20.7K followers, 113.9K engagements "Like George Jones fronting the Velvets at their most restrained Kris Kristoffersons Sunday Morning Coming Down is a pitch-perfect spiritual about being the last one to grasp that your life needs to change. As Zevon once put it: The shit that used to work/ It wont work now" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1786926025881833867) 2024-05-05T01:08Z 18.2K followers, 18.5K engagements "'2000 Light Years From Home' wrings five legitimately mind-bending minutes out of the Stones' otherwise uneasy forays into psychedelia forging the prescription for Stone Roses and Madchester in the process. Their most unlikely masterpiece. Alternate title: 'Tomorrow Never Asks'" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1787304201338470615) 2024-05-06T02:11Z 18.2K followers, 10.8K engagements "'Nashville Skyline' is the situation when Bob Dylan acts like it's perfectly normal that his new LP is awildly horny 28-minute Country & Western album wherein he sings like a particularly hash-drunkDean Martin andwe all agree that it's perfect. Throw my ticket out the window" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1787650929069593076) 2024-05-07T01:09Z 20.7K followers, 54.6K engagements "Albini could say the dumbest things but the broad outlines of his cultural philosophy were visionary. We live in a docile age of obedient consumerism and consensus-driven political and corporate tyranny. This isn't mandatory. Anger can be power. Did you know that you can use it" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1788373440514134326) 2024-05-09T01:00Z 20.7K followers, 74.9K engagements "This is an astonishing list. For those of a certain age how many did you buy when released (From Vill Voice filched from @paranoiacs tread). I count [--]. https://t.co/fpLauWRNIZ For those of a certain age how many did you buy when released (From Vill Voice filched from @paranoiacs tread). I count [--]. https://t.co/fpLauWRNIZ" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1788979482977570913) 2024-05-10T17:08Z 19.6K followers, 49.4K engagements "Had the Clash only been a cover band they'd still be world historic. Their covers of Police On My Back Armagideon Time Look Here and Brand New Cadillac opened up worlds to me that might have remained secret indefinitely. Their great legacy is as cultural code-breakers" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1789125650231460329) 2024-05-11T02:49Z 20.7K followers, 55.2K engagements "Incredibly fun day reporting from the @LPGA's Cognizant Founders Cup. Nelly Korda played great but Rose Zhang was amazing. Find the highlights of her birdying four of her final five holes to erase a three shot deficit on the back nine it was straight Tiger at his most gangster" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1789815599549296680) 2024-05-13T00:31Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements "An anxious deconstruction of the performance of fame culminating in a full fledged nervous breakdown The Beatles' 'Sgt. Peppers' is a confectionery nightmare consisting of half-recalled Music Hall panic-attack childhoods and barely fixed holes in their psyche. Their saddest LP" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1789823090601463954) 2024-05-13T01:00Z 18.3K followers, 17.8K engagements "Can Rory McIIroy finally win after a 10-year major drought Will Scottie Scheffler's amazing dominance continue Will the Scandinavians (my people) break through at Valhalla Over at The Ringer @megschuster and I previewed golf's second major of the year https://www.theringer.com/2024/5/15/24157080/pga-championship-scottie-scheffler-brooks-koepka-rory-mcilroy https://www.theringer.com/2024/5/15/24157080/pga-championship-scottie-scheffler-brooks-koepka-rory-mcilroy" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1790774942612455713) 2024-05-15T16:03Z 18.3K followers, 31.8K engagements "People get ready. Major Paranoid Style news coming down the pike. Rock & Roll shows special deals and all of the other dirty work that makes a balls-to-the-wall pub rock band like ours a viable option until we get arrested. Choose yr. lane but you'll strike out if you miss us" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1790925739853762736) 2024-05-16T02:02Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements "A cringeworthy cross-country crucible following two of the last holdouts from the hippie dream Albert Brooks' Lost In America is the funniest film about 60s utopianism crash landing into the twin icebergs of self-obsession and trickle down economics. All the nest eggs blown" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1790929910409609356) 2024-05-16T02:18Z 18.3K followers, 13.1K engagements "Fifty-six years after the fact VUs White Light/White Heat remains a miraculous shotgun wedding between weapons-grade avant-garde and barrelhouse blues paving the nefarious bridge between Fats Domino and Albert Ayler that no one else was insane enough to see. The Gift indeed" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1791280266964578482) 2024-05-17T01:31Z 18.3K followers, 22.2K engagements "Thirty four minutes of brazen swagger spitfire hooks and barely sublimated class anxiety The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me is one of rock-n-rolls great underdog passion plays. Lonesome skyways narrow ledges and the flickering pulse of a dream. Im in love with that song" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1791647306938261964) 2024-05-18T01:49Z 20.7K followers, 27.7K engagements "A visionary elegy Lou Reeds New York posits Manhattan as a test case for an America riven by income inequality ecological chaos and downward-mobility. Smart enough to pinpoint unregulated Wall Street as the culprit. Sad enough to recognize it was all fixable if wed wanted" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1792026173930647842) 2024-05-19T02:55Z 18.3K followers, 27.4K engagements "Xander Schuaffele is finally a major champion Bryson DeChambeau was startling likable and Scottie Scheffler went to jail and still finished T-8. Over at the Ringer I recapped the Winners and Losers from a chaotic week at the PGA Championship in Valhalla https://www.theringer.com/2024/5/20/24160566/pga-championship-scottie-scheffler-xander-schauffele-valhalla-golf-club https://www.theringer.com/2024/5/20/24160566/pga-championship-scottie-scheffler-xander-schauffele-valhalla-golf-club" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1792589571835764788) 2024-05-20T16:13Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements "Anticipating the brilliantly askew pastoralism of R.E.M. by a half decade Televisions second LP Adventure replaces the shock-and-awe grandeur of Marquee Moon with something even more startling: a reimagining of punk rock premised on the Grateful Dead instead of the Stooges" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1793077196745326702) 2024-05-22T00:31Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements "New live version of "The Findings" from the recent Paranoid Style LP 'The Interrogator' played at Motorhead-speed. I can't fully explain the context but I'm pleased with the outcome. Be like people like NPR Zach Lipez Bob Christgau and Pitchfork. Get hip to 'The Interrogator.'" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1793087576586502426) 2024-05-22T01:12Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements "Needless to say I am spending Dylan's 83rd birthday at the rad Bob Dylan suite of the Inn at Tyler Hill in Pennsylvania. That's just common sense. Here's to eight decades of being born. Here's a Pitchfork Sunday review of 'Desire' I wrote a few months ago. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bob-dylan-desire/ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bob-dylan-desire/" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1794208148653498650) 2024-05-25T03:25Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements "Ive always found it piquant that Jenny Lewis and Elvis Presley share the same birthday since she's my hard first choice to play him in the all female Million Dollar Quartet reboot which is my last and final goal on this tentative Earth. (Carl Perkins you ask Courtney Barett.)" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1795284812196102300) 2024-05-28T02:43Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements "Happy birthday to John Fogerty whose greatest songs seem to have emerged fully formed from an elemental American consciousness. Here's a piece I wrote for The Ringer a few years back about CCR's endlessly defiant and nourishing 'Willy & The Poor Boys' LP. https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/11/26/20983063/creedence-clearwater-revival-willy-and-the-poor-boys-50th-anniversary https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/11/26/20983063/creedence-clearwater-revival-willy-and-the-poor-boys-50th-anniversary" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1795487452934910460) 2024-05-28T16:09Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements "Bristling with pop hooks political anxiety and the freighted historical nightmare of the American south REM's 'Life's Rich Pageant' miraculously splits the difference between their mysterioso early work and their onset voice-of-a-generation obligations. A great American record" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1795636716373684308) 2024-05-29T02:02Z 18.4K followers, 12K engagements "Happy birthday to Stephen Malkmus whose suave boogie traces maps around the more sinister outposts of the American exurbs. Here is a Ringer piece I wrote a few years back about 'Wowee Zowee' Raymond Carver and what we talk about when we talk about both. https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/4/17/21221355/pavement-wowee-zowee-25th-anniversary https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/4/17/21221355/pavement-wowee-zowee-25th-anniversary" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1796231419406205238) 2024-05-30T17:25Z 18.4K followers, 11.6K engagements "My popular series Inferno Side Chats is back for a special dispatch about high-profile musicians the dismal path of anxious excess and the benefits of shrouding ourselves in quality garments Get in there and feel better Buy a shirt. The sale won't last. https://theparanoidstyle.bigcartel.com/ https://theparanoidstyle.bigcartel.com/" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1796344253846782075) 2024-05-31T00:53Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements "Between the years [----] and [----] John Cale released two world-historic LP's with the Velvet Underground recorded the masterwork solo records Vintage Violence and Paris [----] and produced epochal debuts by the Stooges and Modern Lovers. Still somehow a subtly underrated titan" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1796357983133393370) 2024-05-31T01:48Z 20.7K followers, 33.5K engagements "Elvis Costello's great "I Hope You're Happy Now" is the penny-dropping moment when EC's narrator finally realizes that even his prized arsenal of insults won't compensate for the pain of his pathological narcissism. Every blow lands but the bayonet may as well be pointed inward" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1797469607454023786) 2024-06-03T03:25Z 18.4K followers, 13.9K engagements "Fifty years later Randy Newman's 'Louisiana 1927' remains a subtle miracle. Three minutes of wry alchemy which manages to recount a tragedy lost to history and a people forgotten by time without resorting to cheap sentiment or class-based condescension. A perfect American song" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1798181427189538816) 2024-06-05T02:33Z 18.5K followers, 21K engagements "Splitting the difference between Warren Zevon's belligerent self-negations and Richard Thompson's shiver-inducing courtship-by-menace Gordon Lightfoot's 'Sundown' is made all the more chilling by the laid back vibes of its MOR presentation. The mood is calm. The genre is horror" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1799656393731162492) 2024-06-09T04:14Z 18.5K followers, 14.1K engagements ""Brothers here I stand/ Spread my wings and take command." Nothing like being surprised by the official Thin Lizzy version of Dublin's Bohemian FC jersey as a gift. Literally the best thing I've received in the mail since I renewed my Irish passport Thanks and slinte @keoghski" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1799969663826473332) 2024-06-10T00:59Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements "@Bretontheradio I tried https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/11/26/20983063/creedence-clearwater-revival-willy-and-the-poor-boys-50th-anniversary https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/11/26/20983063/creedence-clearwater-revival-willy-and-the-poor-boys-50th-anniversary" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1800372635593028077) 2024-06-11T03:41Z 18.6K followers, 14.5K engagements "It's US Open time and I've gotta feeling that Pinehurst No. [--] is gonna play DIFFICULT. More on that plus Scottie Rory and Brooks the K in our Ringer preview of the big event As always thrilled to work with the peerless @megschuster and @matt_dollinger. https://www.theringer.com/2024/6/12/24176856/us-open-pinehurst-brooks-koepka-scottie-scheffler-rory-mcilroy https://www.theringer.com/2024/6/12/24176856/us-open-pinehurst-brooks-koepka-scottie-scheffler-rory-mcilroy" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1800908835428978817) 2024-06-12T15:11Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements "An even more shameless Stones rip-off than the one named Borrowed Tune Neils Mr. Soul is his first perfect song previewing decades of making the familiar weird and the weird familiar. His pitch Stick around while the clown that is sick does the trick of disaster. Yikes" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1801081267137466573) 2024-06-13T02:36Z 18.6K followers, 16K engagements "An oasis of pure wonder amidst the charmless tundra of so much of early punk's nihilistic pose Television's 'Venus' ranks alongside 'She Belongs To Me' and 'All I Have To Do Is Dream' in the pantheon of rock's thunderstruck love-song devotionals. Every riff falls so desperately" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1801819600780231056) 2024-06-15T03:30Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements "Preparations occurring for the Paranoid Style opening for the Hold Steady next Friday 6/21 at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC. Sure expect Peter Holsapple on lead guitar and Mike V. on bass. But what else might you be missing Tickets are available here: https://www.930.com/e/the-hold-steady/ https://www.930.com/e/the-hold-steady/" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1802154729344041093) 2024-06-16T01:42Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements "An epic duel a shocking collapse and the evermore poignant and complicated legacy of Rory McIlroy in the sport of golf. Over at The Ringer I reflected on the meaning of Bryson Dechambeau's triumph at the US Open following a wild week at Pinehurst No [--]. https://www.theringer.com/2024/6/16/24179904/bryson-dechambeau-us-open-rory-mcilroy-pinehurst https://www.theringer.com/2024/6/16/24179904/bryson-dechambeau-us-open-rory-mcilroy-pinehurst" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1802713323332313344) 2024-06-17T14:42Z 18.6K followers, 36.6K engagements "Thanks so much to the Hold Steady We started it and believe me they intend to finish it. Huge thanks to The Paranoid Style (@paranoiacs) for getting Night [--] started Great to have you https://t.co/O01N0Yi29m Huge thanks to The Paranoid Style (@paranoiacs) for getting Night [--] started Great to have you https://t.co/O01N0Yi29m" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1804321393217073309) 2024-06-22T01:11Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements "Happy 80th birthday to Ray Davies whose small c conservatism always rendered him the counter-culture Cassandra. He wrote "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" during the good times. He's the English Merle Haggard. Here's a Kinks thing I did for Stereogum. https://www.stereogum.com/1705287/the-kinks-albums-from-worst-to-best/photo/ https://www.stereogum.com/1705287/the-kinks-albums-from-worst-to-best/photo/" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1804672394004430862) 2024-06-23T00:26Z 18.7K followers, 11.4K engagements "Pure nitro is the only way to describe last night's events at the legendary 9:30 Club when the Paranoid Style opened up for the amazing Hold Steady and all of DC shook A million thanks to friends and fans who made it out and especially to @theholdsteady for having us. HELL YEAH" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1804678471089582466) 2024-06-23T00:50Z 18.8K followers, 12.7K engagements "The miraculous outcome from Billy Gibbon's rad desire to make ZZ Top sound more like Depeche Mode Eliminator is forty-five minutes of ecstatic hooks and Fairlight boogie weaving together Texas and London grooves and creating an entirely novel musical vernacular in the process" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1805771764414239170) 2024-06-26T01:15Z 18.7K followers, 26.6K engagements "Happy birthday to Mick Jones the Burt Bacharach to Joe Strummer's Dionne Warwick in the Clash: a compositional genius abetted and constrained by a brilliant but very specific singer. The first [--] BAD records are barnburners. Do I own the same hat he wore in "The Globe" vid I do" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1806152111723356494) 2024-06-27T02:26Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements "Today marks [--] years of marital mischief with this singularly funny and special dude. We have gotten up to some stuff I don't mind telling you. Looking forward to spending all the rest of our days on Earth together and all of the days afterward if there's some kind of loophole" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1806395298589143318) 2024-06-27T18:32Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements "Evincing grief and wonder on a nearly cosmic scale Bob Dylans Its All Over Now Baby Blue is simultaneously an empathetic eulogy for a dying era and an emphatic warning to be vigilant about whats coming next. Forget the dead. Use your sins. Strike another match. Start anew" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1806525594764505343) 2024-06-28T03:10Z 18.7K followers, 11.8K engagements "Seven days or one week ago The Paranoid Style opened for the legendary Hold Steady at what many of us consider the the finest rock club in the world. Thanks to @theholdsteady and @930Club for this epic exchange of ideas. Here's a bit of us performing Last Night In Chickentown" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1806883639235416266) 2024-06-29T02:53Z 19.6K followers, [----] engagements "The Clashs Lost In The Supermarket recasts the giddy highway thrills of Jonathan Richmans Roadrunner as a dehumanizing forced march through suburban hellscapes and special offers. The finest song ever written about the acute paradoxical loneliness of the high consumer age" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1807222998232961514) 2024-06-30T01:21Z 20.7K followers, 23.7K engagements "The singular moment when Paul Westerbergs cheap guitar tricks and underdog ethos seamlessly coalesced into his finest political song Bastards Of Young remains a landmark of outward indifference and subtextual rage. A union anthem for after the unions died. Color me oppressed" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1807602382995435550) 2024-07-01T02:29Z 18.9K followers, 21.9K engagements "An underreported part of popular music history is Glyn Johns rescuing everything from Let It Be to 'Who's Next' to Combat Rock from the illegibility of too many ideas expressed in too incoherent a fashion. He is basically rock & roll's version of The Wolf from Pulp Fiction" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1808328000057876740) 2024-07-03T02:32Z 20.7K followers, 47.5K engagements "Bob Dylan is my bag so I was super honored to contribute liner notes to Columbia Records brand new 27-disc () reissue The [----] Recordings highlighting Dylan and The Bands fabled reunion tour The new collection is pure nitro and raw power- a corker https://pitchfork.com/news/bob-dylan-announces-massive-new-box-set-the-1974-live-recordings/ https://pitchfork.com/news/bob-dylan-announces-massive-new-box-set-the-1974-live-recordings/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1810719325814145374) 2024-07-09T16:55Z 20.7K followers, 45.4K engagements "Like a punk rock Sticky Fingers The Replacements' All Shook Down is the LP where a decade of antic excess reveals itself as a barely adequate band-aid for a lifetime of sublimated trauma. Its what The Stooges once called no fun but its no fun in the best and truest sense" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1812668013746762198) 2024-07-15T01:58Z 19K followers, 31.8K engagements "As subversive in his way as George Carlin or Lenny Bruce Bob Newhart's crucial insight was that the buttoned-up presentation of America's post-war expansion was narrowly papering over quantum levels of weirdness. His true cultural inheritors are Jonathan Richman and David Lynch" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1814101713663426580) 2024-07-19T00:55Z 20.7K followers, 21.5K engagements "And in other news Xander Schauffele carded a Sunday [--] to win his second major of [----] at the Open Championship. This should be a boom time for golf if the sport would stop tripping all over itself. I wrote about his triumphant effort over at the Ringer. https://www.theringer.com/2024/7/21/24203159/xander-schauffele-wins-open-championship-royal-troon https://www.theringer.com/2024/7/21/24203159/xander-schauffele-wins-open-championship-royal-troon" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1815164475563028695) 2024-07-21T23:18Z 19K followers, [----] engagements "With its slithering promenade of junkie nurses stalking killers and mandatory moral compromises the Stones Let It Bleed is a forty-two minute exercise in molten belligerence recasting the Hippie Dream as a post-capitalist hellscape. Ever had the feeling youve been cheated" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1816671305560723470) 2024-07-26T03:06Z 19K followers, 12.4K engagements "Six staggering minutes chronicling a five thousand year continuum of human oppression from the dawn of man to the Mississippi Delta Bob Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell" is the saddest song written about the failed promises of America. This land is your land. This land is condemned" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1818489671711617302) 2024-07-31T03:31Z 19.1K followers, 22.2K engagements ""Total revenue for Spotify in [----] was $4 billion. Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king." Over at the NY Times I wrote about how the predatory outcomes of the streaming economy are being rewritten by the winners. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/magazine/how-music-got-free-documentary.htmlunlocked_article_code=1._U0.dXL4.DLTCPY9UD-ps&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/magazine/how-music-got-free-documentary.htmlunlocked_article_code=1._U0.dXL4.DLTCPY9UD-ps&smid=url-share" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1818655799423418701) 2024-07-31T14:31Z 19.2K followers, 26.4K engagements "All wry aphorisms nervous hooks and ambitious genre moves Elvis Costellos [----] Imperial Bedroom is the moment when his incurable polymath tendencies finally overrode his New Wave-Dylan aspirations and re-situated him as the punk-rock Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead [--] Revisited" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1819181868345942127) 2024-08-02T01:22Z 19.1K followers, 106.6K engagements "Some nights I lie awake and ponder the genius of Joni Mitchell's 'Coyote': Little Feat's 'Willin' as re-written by Joyce Carol Oates and rearranged by the Modern Jazz Quartet. A letter perfect response to 'Tangled Up In Blue' which raises the stakes and shrugs off the chauvinism" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1819555345179553828) 2024-08-03T02:06Z 19.1K followers, 19.7K engagements "ICYMI Over at the New York Times Magazine I wrote about the recent Paramount+ documentary 'How Music Got Free' and the ludicrous new party line being proffered by industry elites even as streaming platforms continue to destroy a broader music ecosystem. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/magazine/how-music-got-free-documentary.htmlunlocked_article_code=1._U0.dXL4.DLTCPY9UD-ps&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/magazine/how-music-got-free-documentary.htmlunlocked_article_code=1._U0.dXL4.DLTCPY9UD-ps&smid=url-share" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1819894021671588092) 2024-08-04T00:32Z 19.1K followers, 18.9K engagements "Shunting aside their early Byrds-fixations in favor of Fairport Conventions gnomic philosophizing and the light menace of Blue Oyster Cult REMs Fables Of The Reconstruction is a genuinely strange and wonderful stop on the fast track to global fame. Automatic For The Weirdos" [X Link](https://x.com/paranoiacs/status/1820317739375845446) 2024-08-05T04:35Z 19.1K followers, 12.8K engagements "ICYMI Over at The Atlantic I wrote about Neil Young's harrowing masterpiece On the Beach and how the broken moral compass of the Hippie generation would gradually evolve into a reactionary political juggernaut obsessed with wealth and personal vanity. https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/07/neil-young-on-the-beach-50th-anniversary/679307/gift=jYEJ_PxRoF79Zol3tqG4sLNOh04GFbfdLNsIgTKLX4g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1820629681072140474) 2024-08-06T01:15Z 20.7K followers, 43.8K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Happy birthday to Lowell George one of the great polymath musical geniuses of the 20th century and one of the most idiosyncratic people ever to walk the Earth. Here's an appreciation I wrote about his life and work for Oxford American a couple years ago. https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-115-winter-2021/lowell-george-in-eight-and-a-half-songs https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-115-winter-2021/lowell-george-in-eight-and-a-half-songs"
X Link 2023-04-13T21:36Z 18.4K followers, 39.9K engagements
"An arguably under-reported occurrence in music history is Glyn Johns rescuing both the Beatles' Let It Be and the Clashs Combat Rock from the incoherence of far flung ideas rendered in too freewheeling a fashion. He's the Rock & Roll version of the Wolf from Pulp Fiction"
X Link 2023-04-17T02:45Z 19.5K followers, 27.4K engagements
"From 'Planet Waves' to "Tears Of Rage" I find the most fascinating part of The Band's collaborations with Bob Dylan to be their unique capacity to render his amphetamine-twitch songs into something borderline narcotic. No subsequent band ever truly successfully slowed him down"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:18Z 17.3K followers, 30.9K engagements
"Hell yes on this"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:12Z 17.3K followers, [--] engagements
"From the scorched-Earth utopianism of the title track to the Thin Lizzy-romp of "Celebrated Summer" to the psychedelic closer Plans You Make Husker Dus New Day Rising is a primer on everything that went right and wrong in rock & roll's first three decades. Start anew again"
X Link 2023-07-11T02:13Z 16.5K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Having gone through hell just to get to hell Elvis Costellos '86 Blood And Chocolate LP is 48-minutes of shrill and thrilling score-settling leveled against past lovers industry dweebs and primarily himself. A psychic demolition derby. Hope you're satisfied what youve done"
X Link 2023-07-12T03:29Z 17.3K followers, 54.7K engagements
"Thrilled to have been the beat reporter for The Ringer on the subject of the topsy-turvy outcome of the Open Championship. Tom Kim Rory McIIroy Scottie Scheffler the eventual winner and all of the complicated implications of the sport moving forward"
X Link 2023-07-24T03:10Z 17.3K followers, 43.8K engagements
"If the Clash had only only been a cover band theyd still be the only band that matters. Their versions of Police On My Back Look Here and "Revolution Rock" opened up worlds to me which might have remained secret indefinitely. Their great legacy is as cultural codebreakers"
X Link 2023-07-31T03:05Z 20.7K followers, 46.8K engagements
"It's MLB trade deadline Tuesday and I for one can think of no finer way to celebrate then with the updated Best Of Bar/None Records playlist at Spotify You won't need to surrender your entire farm system to hear Alex Chilton The Feelies Yo La Tengo and the Paranoid Style Go"
X Link 2023-08-01T19:48Z 16.6K followers, [----] engagements
"A surrealist tragedy on the order "After The Gold Rush" the paradoxical urban loneliness of Wilco's "Ashes Of American Flags" plays like a Bellow short story by way of a Burroughs cut-up-exercise. The best of its many fine epigrams: "Speaking of tomorrow/ How will it ever come""
X Link 2023-08-03T00:28Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A song that sounds scared of what it knows Springsteen's 'Atlantic City' is the moment in which the ultra-violence always latent in his urban picaresques turns manifest and terrifying. Some say to live outside the law you must be honest. Others incur debts no honest man can pay"
X Link 2023-08-04T01:55Z 20.7K followers, 38.9K engagements
"47 years on Randy Newman's 'Louisiana 1927' remains a subtle miracle. Three minutes of wry alchemy which manages to recount a tragedy lost to history and a people forgotten to time without resorting to cheap sentimentality or class driven condescension. A perfect American song"
X Link 2023-08-07T01:43Z 20.7K followers, 98.4K engagements
"My knees buckled at the news of Robbie Robertson's passing. Like his songs he seemed to me undefinable by age. I won't argue it's the best but "Stage Fright" is The Band LP which has brought me the most joy. Here's a piece I wrote about the [----] reissue. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-band-stage-fright-50th-anniversary-edition/ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-band-stage-fright-50th-anniversary-edition/"
X Link 2023-08-09T21:02Z 20.7K followers, 39.1K engagements
"Released a month apart Joe Jackson's 'Night And Day' and Elvis Costello's 'Imperial Bedroom' are twinned visions of a punk-rock Tin Pan Alley weaponized by two wits worthy of Cole Porter and Moss Hart. Countless great songs on both but the standard is Jackson's "Stepping Out""
X Link 2023-08-11T00:44Z 20.7K followers, 41.4K engagements
"I was super flattered to get a name check in Margaret Sullivan's beautiful meditation on the passing of Robbie Robertson and the lonely feeling of losing our great musical heroes one at a time"
X Link 2023-08-11T17:26Z 17.3K followers, 19.4K engagements
"A radical cross-pollination of Eisenhower-era values and incipient punk menace The Modern Lovers' debut LP remains one of R&R's most thrilling contrarian unicorns. A wholesale rejection of Flower Power ethos and a full-throated defense of new suburbia. Found In The Supermarket"
X Link 2023-08-12T01:59Z 17.3K followers, 21.6K engagements
"Built To Spill's 'There's Nothing Wrong With Love' LP is the Idaho dirtbag sequel to 'Born To Run'. A series of moving small-town picaresques all about pinpointing the workable ratio of romance drugs and ambition needed to achieve escape velocity from a dead-end town. A classic"
X Link 2023-08-13T02:23Z 20.7K followers, 49.2K engagements
"Life-changing for me in a literal sense Sleater-Kinney's 'Dig Me Out' is one of punk's grooviest noisiest and most restorative rallying cries. A generational hand-off from the B-52's and The Clash where the future is unwritten and the cool clubs book misfits only. A lodestar"
X Link 2023-08-17T23:55Z 17.3K followers, 19.1K engagements
""2000 Light Years From Home" wrings five legitimately mind-blowing minutes out of the Stones' mostly fruitless forays into psychedelic costume drama and casually invents the Madchester scene in the process. Their most unlikely masterpiece. Alternate title: "Tomorrow Never Asks""
X Link 2023-08-19T02:02Z 17.3K followers, 23.1K engagements
"Forty-five years later Springsteen's 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town' and Costello's 'This Years Model' feel like companion pieces. Two overlapping visions of a nightmare future of debased politics abandonment of the working class and the prizing of vanity over all other virtues"
X Link 2023-08-19T23:24Z 20.7K followers, 60.5K engagements
"Happy 71st birthday to Joe Strummer the individual who perhaps more than any other inspired and clarified for me what it is I wanted to do with my life. Reposting an essay I wrote about the 40th anniversary of London Calling for The Ringer. Oh mi corazon. https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/12/17/21024982/the-clash-london-calling-40th-anniversary https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/12/17/21024982/the-clash-london-calling-40th-anniversary"
X Link 2023-08-21T14:34Z 20.7K followers, 72.8K engagements
"Happy 69th birthday to Elvis Costello the songwriter who's probably exerted more influence over my own work than any other. Here is a piece I wrote about the 40th anniversary of 'Get Happy' for The Ringer a few years ago. "The speed freak's White Album." https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/2/19/21140313/elvis-costello-get-happy-40th-anniversary https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/2/19/21140313/elvis-costello-get-happy-40th-anniversary"
X Link 2023-08-25T22:31Z 18.4K followers, 44.2K engagements
"Positioned strategically between Sgt. Pepper's psych and the folk reckoning of John Wesley Harding The Kinks' Something Else is a darkhorse candidate for the best record of [----]. Best of all is 'Waterloo Sunset': the whole of the human condition rendered in three perfect verses"
X Link 2023-09-02T01:51Z 17.3K followers, 34.5K engagements
"A moving counterpart to the dyspeptic hilarity of "The Ballad Of John & Yoko Paul McCartneys Two Of Us is an offhand masterpiece nailing the balance between nostalgia and nagging doubt so characteristic of his finest compositions. Memories drifting slowly. We're going home"
X Link 2023-09-03T00:28Z 17.3K followers, 34.7K engagements
"A staging of KIng Lear at a monster-truck rally. ICYMI I wrote about the extreme hilarity abject vulgarity and subtle melancholy of HBOs The Righteous Gemstones. The nightmare of Americas Post-WWII Prosperity Gospel taken to it's logical extreme"
X Link 2023-09-04T01:45Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Thirty-nine minutes of institutionalized misogyny death spiral capitalism and love songs as mesmerizing as any written in the 20th century The Pretenders Learning To Crawl is a miracle of perfect hooks charged recollections and a mother's determined optimism. A masterpiece"
X Link 2023-09-05T03:15Z 16.6K followers, 37.2K engagements
"The true conjurer's trick of Pavement's 'Slanted & Enchanted' is the illusion that songs so great were arrived at by accident rather than Stephen Malkmus's Stalinesque 50-year-plan for world domination. As he concedes on 'Zurich Is Stained': "You think it's easy/ but your wrong""
X Link 2023-09-07T00:11Z 17.3K followers, 25.7K engagements
"A fraught negative image of their effervescent debut 'Three Feet High And Rising' 'De La Soul Is Dead' is a sui generis act of world building and uneasy vibes whose closest antecedents are Sly Stones 'Theres A Riot Goin On' and Neils 'Tonights The Night'. Keepin' the Faith"
X Link 2023-09-08T02:16Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Written in the style of King-Goffin and dressed up in the fineries of Langer-Winstanley Elvis Costello's "Everyday I Write The Book" all is hair-tearing mania posing as palatable confection. The single funniest in-joke for all of us considered 'literary songwriters'. A classic"
X Link 2023-09-08T23:22Z 19.6K followers, 16.3K engagements
"Awestruck by circumstances of their own making the Stones Sticky Fingers navigates its forty-six minute run time with the narcotized exhilaration of a concussed boxer fighting on. Dead flowers hospital midnights and moonlight miles left to go. The best LP ever about fatigue"
X Link 2023-09-10T03:01Z 17.3K followers, 40.6K engagements
"With its stream-of-consciousness poetry and reckless-exquisite instrumentation Lou Reed's 'The Blue Mask' is rock's best Freudian breakthrough: a man desperately reassembling the pieces of his fractious mind before it becomes impossible. Catchy scary and moving. Plus Bob Quine"
X Link 2023-09-12T01:15Z 17.3K followers, 16.6K engagements
"A masterful confection born of bone deep childhood trauma The Kinks Come Dancing is a marvel of sheer narrative economy condensing three decades of family angst emotional trauma and cultural drift into five minutes of happy-on-the-surface singalong. Chekov never did better"
X Link 2023-09-13T01:38Z 17.3K followers, 15.9K engagements
"Having fled his ball-busting hometown gathered the band and proved it all night to the point of exhaustion Springsteens Darkness On The Edge Of Town LP is the baffled slow-burn nervous breakdown of a man beginning to doubt what hes sure of. Everything means less than zero"
X Link 2023-09-14T00:06Z 17.3K followers, 20.9K engagements
"The spiritual quest of Across The Universe meets the cocaine-psychosis of the 70's John Lennons #9 Dream is weird astroturf Beatles connecting the aspirational gibberish of the hippie era with the queasy happy talk of the New Age. A pastoral sonic panic attack. Brilliant"
X Link 2023-09-15T02:22Z 17.3K followers, 24.6K engagements
"The Jann Wenner stuff is obviously outrageous if in keeping with his long held standing as a philistine around this stuff. More important is that these specific attitudes about female songwriters and "articulation" remain very much a critical default in many influential outlets"
X Link 2023-09-16T19:28Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Having advanced as far into their subterranean death trip as Mick and Keith were prepared to see through Exile On Main Streets 'Let It Loose is the moment when ten years of ecstasy tragedy and anger pours down like a biblical rain. A baptism and a benediction. Soul survivors"
X Link 2023-09-17T03:05Z 17.3K followers, 21.2K engagements
"A devastating tale of love and betrayal that doubles as a quiet demolition of Manifest Destiny myths Townes Van Zandts Pancho & Lefty remakes John Fords Old West as a tragicomedy of halfwit grifters indifferent law enforcement and no meaning at all. A perfect American song"
X Link 2023-09-18T00:14Z 20.7K followers, 37.7K engagements
"It is seven years to the day that the Paranoid Style's video for "The Thrill Is Back" was rendered by a hearty lot of stalwarts somewhere deep in the heart of Red Hook. Special thanks to our genius director @mileskahn who truly "led" us on this Journey"
X Link 2023-09-18T02:36Z 17.3K followers, 10.3K engagements
"@Antonharmony Yeah dude totally agree. One of his best"
X Link 2023-09-23T01:16Z 17.3K followers, [--] engagements
"How's your Friday evening Need a little jolt My recommendation: tune into the latest edition of the Best Of Bar/None playlist featuring the Feelies Yo La Tengo Alex Chilton dB's Ezra Furman and the Paranoid Style's hot new single "I Love The Sound Of Structured Class." Go"
X Link 2023-09-23T01:29Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Class resentment had always figured into the Replacements work. On 'Tim' that rage and resignation boiled over. Coulda' been a contender." ICYMI: at the New Yorker I wrote about the new reissue and the open wound of Paul Westerberg's working man's blues. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/listening-booth/the-replacements-are-still-a-puzzle https://www.newyorker.com/culture/listening-booth/the-replacements-are-still-a-puzzle"
X Link 2023-09-23T03:27Z 20.7K followers, 87.9K engagements
""Is Byrne attempting to wake himself up from a dream or is he intending to render himself unconscious" Re-posting my [----] Ringer piece about the thrilling anxious vision of Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense". The new cut looks amazing"
X Link 2023-09-26T01:00Z 17.3K followers, 13.3K engagements
"All wry aphorisms tumbling hooks and arch genre experiments Elvis Costellos 1982s Imperial Bedroom is the moment when his incurable polymath tendencies finally overrode his New Wave Dylan aspirations and resituated him as the punk-rock Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead [--] Revisited"
X Link 2023-09-28T00:05Z 17.3K followers, 24.7K engagements
"Why is it that I feel so god damned ALIVE It's Ryder Cup time Over at the Ringer we've got a run down of all twenty four competitors in golf's biannual continental measuring contest. Thanks to my amazing playing partners @megschuster and @matt_dollinger"
X Link 2023-09-28T12:53Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The paradox of the 'White Album' is that there's no way to extract its weaker material while maintaining the menacing dream-logic that makes the whole such a powerfully dislocating psychic experience. I wonder if it its the first album to consciously employ bad songs as a tactic"
X Link 2023-09-29T02:33Z 20.7K followers, 479.1K engagements
"Thirty five years later the drum machine doom-klezmer of Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" remains a strikingly radical gesture. From the crypt-keeper vocals to the reverse-Sermon-On-The-Mount-sentiment it's the sound of Satan trying out his standup act and absolutely killing"
X Link 2023-10-03T01:29Z 20.7K followers, 36K engagements
"Attention New Paranoid Style single "Print The Legend" is out today- a tribute to my hero Joe Ely Featuring Peter Holsapple from the dB's and Lisa Walker from Wussy Preorders for "The Interrogator" CD and LP are available TODAY Be bold and act"
X Link 2023-10-03T14:30Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Wow It's a brand new dispatch from Paranoid Style HQ from Elizabeth Nelson herself all about her new LP 'The Interrogator' which is coming out on Bar-None Records in February This is full of PERTINENT INFORMATION about The Interrogator and HOW TO preorder LPs and CDs Watch"
X Link 2023-10-04T17:15Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Bandcamp Friday you say Well then it is only common sense to head over the Bar/None Records page and pre-order the new Paranoid Style LP "The Interrogator" You might want to add titles by The Feelies Alex Chilton and other stalwarts while you're over there. That's my advice"
X Link 2023-10-06T14:35Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Conjuring ZZ Top and the Dead much in the same way that the Minutemen chanelled CCR and Van Halen the Meat Puppets' weird boogie odyssey Huevos is one of the great American guitar records. An alternate history of punk where its major deity isnt Johnny Thunders its JJ Cale"
X Link 2023-10-08T01:39Z 17.3K followers, 38.6K engagements
"A songcycle of endless psychic and geographic dislocations the rudderless marriage at the center of Bob Dylan's 'Blood On The Tracks' serves as a central metaphor for a generation of Americans who achieved escape velocity but wound up nowhere at all. The highway is for gamblers"
X Link 2023-10-09T04:01Z 17.3K followers, 22.5K engagements
"An astonishing feat of lyrical economy Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" weaves together the poignant sweep of a fraying love affair with the reverberations of multi-generational family trauma into a five minute allegory of cyclical poverty and undiminished hope. A great American song"
X Link 2023-10-13T23:29Z 20.7K followers, 27.2K engagements
"What's this now My first ever cover story for Golf Digest Oh hell yes I wrote about the 20-year old LPGA phenom Rose Zhang and the mind-scrambling challenge of life as a protege and product in the modern consumer age. Please consider purchasing a copy at your local newsstand"
X Link 2023-10-16T00:47Z 17.3K followers, 18.9K engagements
"Seven songs expressed over a mesmerizingly brutal thirty-six minutes The Stooges Fun House is all full-force groove aspirational self-harm and glory. A candid expression of the latent sadomasochism which was always rock and roll's best last argument for existence. A classic"
X Link 2023-10-19T02:06Z 17.3K followers, 18.8K engagements
"Happy birthday to the great Tom Petty whose best songs can feel like a mineral element completely of his own invention. Here's a piece I wrote about the astonishing 'Damn The Torpedoes' a few years back for The Ringer. Happily remembered and sadly missed"
X Link 2023-10-20T17:27Z 16.5K followers, 27.7K engagements
"New Stones is really cool and way better than it needed to be. The vituperation of the Pitchfork review and attendant lecture on mercenrary Boomerism strikes me as bafflingly unearned particularly as the same writer recently wrote a fairly hagiographic profile of.Graham Nash"
X Link 2023-10-20T23:30Z 16.5K followers, 56.2K engagements
"Like "I'm Waiting For The Man" reimagined for the Pat Garret & Billy The Kid soundtrack Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" is one of the great sad ballads of the 1970's: part debauched LA travelogue part working class romance part Bizarro World Eagles. Rock-by-way-of Raymond Chandler"
X Link 2023-10-22T02:08Z 16.5K followers, 45.5K engagements
"A hook filled masterpiece as subversive as pure pop gets Nick Lowes Cruel To Be Kind weds a soaring Everleys-worthy melody to literally the worst couples counseling session ever conducted. If only Sinatra had lived long enough to sing it. Because you're mine I cross the line"
X Link 2023-10-26T02:09Z 16.5K followers, 21.1K engagements
"Had REM been mugged in the studio by Motorhead it might've ended up sounding something like Husker Du's [----] major-label debut 'Candy Apple Grey': thirty-seven minutes of abrasive guitars brilliant hooks and zero concessions to mass appeal. The night before the Daydream Nation"
X Link 2023-10-27T23:30Z 20.7K followers, 46.2K engagements
"The Stones No Expectations is the Hippie Dream inflection point when utopianism gives way to politcal violence hedonism meets hard drugs and rootless travel ceases being a gas and starts becoming a generational identity crisis. Their saddest truest song. Brian's last stand"
X Link 2023-11-01T00:28Z 16.6K followers, 20.3K engagements
"Musically and thematically peripatetic Joni Mitchells Hejira is amongst the most extraoridinarily sprawling musical and emoitionally documents of utopianism meeting head on with the realities of narcissistic individualism. Freedoms just another word when everything is lost"
X Link 2023-11-02T03:48Z 16.6K followers, 24.9K engagements
"Faith fear and fatalism sung in beautifully doomed harmony Gram Parsons Grievous Angel traces a tragic crooked line from Hank to Hendrix to the end. The best LP ever recorded about the existential dangers of hanging out with Keith Richards. A wake for himself and Elvis too"
X Link 2023-11-06T01:50Z 16.6K followers, 24.5K engagements
"Crucial news from Paranoid Style HQ: Opening for the Drive-By Truckers at their Heathens homecoming show in Athens pre-order info for 'The Interrogator' LP on Bar/None Records and advice you need for getting and staying ahead of the curve. An informational dispatch for the bold"
X Link 2023-11-19T03:32Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The astonishing tale of David Lynch's 'Dune' a wonderful overview of the history of Asian cinema and Coppolas ranging from Francis to Sophia to Nicolas Cage Over at the Wall Street Journal I wrote about a spate of giftworthy film books for the holidays"
X Link 2023-11-20T05:13Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Like George Jones fronting the Velvets at their most restrained Kris Kristoffersons Sunday Morning Coming Down is a pitch-perfect spiritual about being the last one to grasp that your life needs to change. As Zevon once put it: The shit that used to work/ It wont work now"
X Link 2023-11-20T05:25Z 16.7K followers, 17.6K engagements
"PARANOID STYLE: SPECIAL DISPATCH CD COPIES OF 'THE INTERROGATOR'+ TEE SHIRT FOR $35 AT THE BLEAKEST BLACKEST FRIDAY SALE TO DATE Watch thisvideo to find out how and more importantly why this bargain is taking place. Then spend recklessly and with abandon. "It is demented""
X Link 2023-11-24T22:18Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Reverent defiant prayerful deviant remorseful and ultimately broken to the point of scrapping shit off the shoes of those who abuse us the Rolling Stones' Sweet Virginia is the easily the best gospel song to advise on smuggling speed. So many ways to touch the face of God"
X Link 2023-11-25T02:50Z 16.7K followers, 12K engagements
"Kill Yr Idols was a thesis on creative destruction but such mandates are difficult to maintain as those idols slip away. Here he does what he can to keep alive their flickering flame." Enjoyed Thurston Moore's memoir a great deal and reviewed it at WSJ"
X Link 2023-11-28T00:58Z 16.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Quite possibly the most caustic LP ever recorded about the American temperament Randy Newmans Sail Away is twelve ready-made sketches of false prophets psychopaths con-men total losers and everything else we tend to consider patriotic. What a long strange grift it's been"
X Link 2023-11-29T02:15Z 16.8K followers, 33.4K engagements
"A balladeer of staggering depth and pathos Shane MacGowan's best songs laid bare the hiding-in-plain-sight throughline between Johnny Mathis and Johnny Rotten and rendered comi-tragic class-addled chronicles the vaulting equal of Merle Haggard's best. In every way astonishing"
X Link 2023-12-01T01:50Z 20.7K followers, 38.5K engagements
"All cosmic loneliness and gut punch personal inventory Pavement's "Here" is Steve Malkmus and band's first unvarnished masterpiece. A miracle alchemy of VU's 3rd and Westerberg's museum-of-losers balladry. All bad jokes and long goodbyes. A "Dark End Of The Street" for the 90's"
X Link 2023-12-07T03:17Z 16.8K followers, 23.8K engagements
"Four minutes of psycho groove which flips over the rock of 60s utopianism to reveal the infestation laying beneath Neil Youngs Revolution Blues recasts Laurel Canyon as a condemned hellscape of privilege and naivet. Famous stars and bloody fountains. California here I come"
X Link 2023-12-09T02:03Z 16.8K followers, 22.5K engagements
"All sanctioned assassination and heaven bound song the Mekons Rock n Roll LP remains the single best account of the profound spiritual death attending the abject cruelty of the Reagan-Thatcher era. Destroy your safe and happy life/ Before It is too late." Words to live by"
X Link 2023-12-12T04:16Z 16.8K followers, 19K engagements
"Six staggering minutes chronicling a five thousand year continuum of human oppression from the dawn of man to the Mississippi Delta Bob Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell" is the saddest song written about the failed promises of America. This land is your land. This land is condemned"
X Link 2023-12-13T02:42Z 16.8K followers, 30.1K engagements
"Encompassing all the menace spiritual seeking sexual confusion and political anger of the early Who 1971s collection Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy is a perfect document of the most subversive British Invasion band ever to conquer the States. Bo Diddley meets Belle & Sebastian"
X Link 2023-12-17T03:35Z 16.8K followers, 18.7K engagements
"Chuck Berry meets T.S. Eliot at Satan's crossroads the Paranoid Style's new LP 'The Interrogator' reckons with the apocalyptic double-dealing of an onset age of total war wild greed and bespoke bourgeois pleasure. Yes I think it can be very easily done"
X Link 2023-12-19T02:41Z 16.8K followers, 13.6K engagements
"ICYMI On the occasion of The Paranoid Style's recent single "Print The Legend" Patterson Hood and I spent a quality hour breaking down the story songs of Tom T Hall Merle Haggard The Silos and his own band DBT over at the Southwest Review. Check it out"
X Link 2023-12-20T05:12Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The miraculous consequence of Billy Gibbons' on-its-face-insane desire to make ZZ Top sound more like Depeche Mode 1983's Eliminator is all ecstatic hooks Fairlight boogie and the christening of an entirely novel musical vernacular. Stevie Ray Vaughn meets shoegaze. TexasUK"
X Link 2023-12-21T02:10Z 17.3K followers, 31.5K engagements
"Given my abiding love of Elmore Leonard Walton Goggins Timothy Olyphant and nearly every other element involved it's borderline bizarre that I've just now binged 'Justified'. What a show. Every bit the brilliant ethnographic American x-ray of 'The Sopranos' or 'Breaking Bad'"
X Link 2023-12-22T00:30Z [--] followers, 29K engagements
"Six minutes of abject dread and total awe standing quiveringly face to face with the reality of man Bob Dylans Every Grain Of Sand is the scariest and most nourishing song to emerge from his VIP access to the spirit world. Love hate terror ecstasy and hope. Its all true"
X Link 2023-12-26T02:44Z 17.3K followers, 49.3K engagements
"Happy holidays to all rational Paranoid Style and hardcore Rod Stewart fans. I know that one tends to follow from the other. Here's the mod and I working the same merchant marine look over Christmas in '21. Never a dull moment indeed. 'The Interrogator' available on Bar-None now"
X Link 2023-12-28T03:55Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Few songs contain more multitudes then Big Star's "The Ballad Of El Goodo" four verses of celestial devotion self-help talk and petulant score settling which might be the most purely melodic full-fledged breakdown ever set to tape. Beauty and terror. Unbelievable odds. Hold on"
X Link 2023-12-29T01:48Z 20.7K followers, 47.6K engagements
"Happy birthday to the great Robert Quine whose playing navigated a wholly novel sonic sprawl between blistered beauty and sublime noise. On many days my fave guitarist. Here's something I wrote about him and Lou Reed on stage together for Oxford American"
X Link 2023-12-30T19:41Z 17.3K followers, 25.5K engagements
"Happy birthday to Paul Westerberg whose intuitive feel for the economic and social underdog informs the subtle politics of his best material. Here is a piece I wrote for The New Yorker about the workingman's blues at the heart of the Replacements' 'Tim.'"
X Link 2024-01-02T00:56Z [--] followers, 31K engagements
"So much of Zevon's subversive magic lies in the liberating confidence of his cultivated determination to confront life's fears and the false contests of late-Capitalism by simply not giving a shit at all. "I appreciate the best" he once sang "But I'm settling for less." Wisdom"
X Link 2024-01-07T01:18Z 17.3K followers, 58K engagements
"It's been roughly twenty-four hours since the release of the Paranoid Style's new poultry-themed single "Last Night In Chickentown" and a predictable wave of controversy and hard feeling has followed in its wake. Watch me explain everything and then rustle up a copy for yourself"
X Link 2024-01-11T00:50Z 19.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Condensing four hundred years of colonial cruelty into five and a half devastatingly minutesThe Clashs Straight To Hell intuitively connects the miseries of the 19th century Congo 20th century Vietnam and Englands dispossessed working class. Maybe Strummers greatest lyric"
X Link 2024-01-13T03:29Z [--] followers, 28K engagements
""Where whats real and whats weird are largely indistinguishable." Rogue criminals questionable saints and the rest of the American medicine show writ large. Over at Pitchfork I published a long meditation on Bob Dylan's "Desire" LP. Check it out"
X Link 2024-01-14T05:51Z 17.3K followers, 76.2K engagements
"A visionary elegy Lou Reeds New York posits Manhattan as a test case for an America riven by income inequality ecological chaos and downward-mobility. Smart enough to pinpoint unregulated Wall Street as the culprit. Sad enough to recognize it was all fixable if wed wanted"
X Link 2024-01-16T02:35Z 17.3K followers, 27.3K engagements
"All institutionalized misogyny death-spiral capitalism and open-veined meditations on love and mercy The Pretenders Learning To Crawl LP is a miracle of perfect hooks charged recollections and one young mother's ardent hope for a future actually worth having. A masterpiece"
X Link 2024-01-17T04:29Z 17.3K followers, 13.4K engagements
"Why not soundtrack your Sunday to some of the Best Of Bar/None Records Feelies Alex Chilton Yo La Tengo brand new Paranoid Style and so much other great music from the label you can trust Check it out here Sunday afternoons are for @paranoiacs https://t.co/9p7AxqzYL3 Sunday afternoons are for @paranoiacs https://t.co/9p7AxqzYL3"
X Link 2024-01-21T21:36Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Brilliantly covering the waterfront from infectious R&B to confessional folk to the psychological depths of whatever lurks in the mystic Van Morrisons Saint Dominics Preview is a muscular display of awe inspiring talent tinged with onset madness. Much more of both to follow"
X Link 2024-01-22T05:55Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Yep Your eyes don't deceive you. Practice for the Paranoid Style's February 16th show opening for the Drive-By Truckers in Athens GA has commenced in earnest. Here's me and PS guitarist Peter Holsapple making our intentions absolutely clear. Grab your tickets while they remain"
X Link 2024-01-26T02:15Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@Bake_1971 No wine before its time"
X Link 2024-01-26T03:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"We are less than a week out from the release of The Paranoid Style's "The Interrogator" LP on Bar-None Records Why not get ready with a Best Of from "The Label You Can Trust" The Feelies Yo La Tengo They Might Be Giants Alex Chilton Petra Haden and brand new Paranoid Style Fine Independent Music since [----] w/ songs from @TheFeeliesNJ @kolezzzanka @xxofMontrealxx @pardonerbandsf @TheRealYLT @paranoiacs. https://t.co/GA8picCbvM Fine Independent Music since [----] w/ songs from @TheFeeliesNJ @kolezzzanka @xxofMontrealxx @pardonerbandsf @TheRealYLT @paranoiacs. https://t.co/GA8picCbvM"
X Link 2024-01-27T20:07Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"As the decades pass the destabilizing mystery of CCR's weird genius only deepens. Songs that telescope through time and space with puzzling omniscience. Songs of awe and dread exultant joy retribution and boundless grief. Songs which having been rendered seem always to existed"
X Link 2024-01-28T01:45Z 17.3K followers, 26.1K engagements
"Posting an excruciatingly special episode of my hit program 'Inferno Side Chats' addressing some of the antics and frustrations of the Federal Government in my beloved Washington DC. More questions coming Buy the Paranoid Style's 'The Interrogator' now"
X Link 2024-01-28T02:58Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements
"With its towering hooks bone-deep grooves and indelibly humane character studies Princes 'Sign O The Times' is a musical house with many mansions. Stomping P-Funk jazzy Joni ballads Beatle-leaning pop and Sam Cooke soul. Pure transcendence distilled into two perfect hours"
X Link 2024-01-29T03:29Z 17.3K followers, 25.1K engagements
"Tremendous thanks to Ken Tucker and NPR's Fresh Air for the wonderful review of 'The Interrogator' on today's episode I really couldn't be more grateful. The album is out this Friday on Bar-None Records Listen to the review and then go grab yourself a copy I reviewed the new @paranoiacs album today on @nprfreshair : https://t.co/imNORgPuBw https://t.co/ABQiCA0iEM I reviewed the new @paranoiacs album today on @nprfreshair : https://t.co/imNORgPuBw https://t.co/ABQiCA0iEM"
X Link 2024-01-29T19:48Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
""Elizabeth Nelson's declarative sentences reveal themselves to be artfully composed verse packed with wordplay jokes and an undercurrent of serious dread." Huge thanks to NPR's Fresh Air for their rave review of 'The Interrogator' on today's episode https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227543861/the-paranoid-style-blends-rock-with-literary-flair-with-the-interrogator https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227543861/the-paranoid-style-blends-rock-with-literary-flair-with-the-interrogator"
X Link 2024-01-29T20:32Z 19.6K followers, [----] engagements
""This is the Paranoid Style's most tuneful album to date in part because of its new lead guitarist Peter Holsapple co-founder of the great pop rock band The dB's." Tough but fair. ICYMI: check out NPR's Fresh Air's rave review of the 'The Interrogator.'"
X Link 2024-01-30T01:49Z 17.3K followers, 17.2K engagements
"The Paranoid Style motorvate down the same sonic expressway to your heart that Chuck Berry built and followers like Dave Edmunds sped down to such effect." Thanks to Charles Hughes and No Fences Review for this amazing review of 'The Interrogator' today"
X Link 2024-02-02T17:19Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Thanks very much to NPR Music for recommending 'The Interrogator' on Friday's All Songs Considered Bonus points for accurately characterizing my equal running obsession with basically every era of Van Morrison. I know I'm weird. Check out the show here"
X Link 2024-02-02T22:05Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Reconciling his childhood fantasy of what lies across the Atlantic with the crass avarice of his actual findings Elvis Costellos King Of America pits capitalisms moral nullity against the ugliness in his own heart and everyone loses. A roots-rock landmark. James Burton too"
X Link 2024-02-05T03:19Z 17.4K followers, 20.1K engagements
"Dumbstruck by circumstances of their own device the Stones' Sticky Fingers navigates its forty-six minute run time with the narcotized moxie of a concussed boxer blindly flailing on. Dead flowers hospitals nights and moonlight miles left to go. The best LP ever about fatigue"
X Link 2024-02-07T01:59Z 17.4K followers, 14.3K engagements
"Depending on if you're groovy you may or may not want to check out the new edition of my random newsletter 'Please Take My Advice.' All about the ways and the means the balance of things Peter Holsapple and the new Paranoid Style LP 'The Interrogator.'"
X Link 2024-02-07T04:11Z 17.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Mojo Nixon had a unique ability to be irreverent and even wildly subversive without ever seeming to lose faith in the human endeavor. Certainly he was a significant influence on my young mind as I wrote about in my song "Turpitude". I loved him. Rave on"
X Link 2024-02-08T19:19Z 17.5K followers, 11K engagements
"Seventy-nine riveting minutes abjuring the standard talking-head music-documentary-form in favor of the far more terrifying prospect of all source footage Ethan Coen's new Jerry Lee Lewis doc 'Trouble In Mind" is one part musical one part horror pic and all Killer. Masterwork"
X Link 2024-02-11T01:43Z 17.5K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Night at the switching yard. Rehearsals for the Paranoid Style opening for Drive-By Truckers this coming Friday. Old classics and new standards ready Peter Holsapple on guitar. Attend if you can. Go see The Interrogator if you can't. Go in tell the truth come out feel better"
X Link 2024-02-13T04:00Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements
"All bone deep hooks desperate longing and pure contempt The Pretenders Talk Of The Town is the best song about losing someone you love and finding yourself in the process. When Chrissie Hynde exults Youve changed your place in this world my entire life flashes before me"
X Link 2024-02-14T02:26Z 17.5K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Forty five minutes of locomotive riffs lilting laments and hooks as towering as the Hoover Dam itself Sugars Copper Blue LP is the ultimate actualization of Bob Moulds singular Motothead-meets-The Hollies vision. Heartbreaking as Tunnel Of Love. Hard as a High Voltage"
X Link 2024-02-16T03:49Z 17.5K followers, 22.6K engagements
"Amazing things from when the Paranoid Style went down to Georgia: [--]. We stumbled into town. [--]. We killed it with Peter H. and crew. [--]. I duetted with Patterson Hood on Suzy Quatro's "Stumblin' In. [--]. We had a Mike Mills encounter. I believe they call that the "Athens Homerun.""
X Link 2024-02-18T03:38Z 17.6K followers, 12.4K engagements
"Insisting upon the happiest of birthdays for the insanely talented and generally notorious national institution that is Peter Holsapple. A stellar dude killer bandmate and the kind of guy you want by your side when you're opening for Drive-By Truckers in Athens. Until next time"
X Link 2024-02-20T03:06Z 17.6K followers, 11.7K engagements
"A major-label throwaway turned-enduring underdog classic Bash & Pops Friday Night Is Killing Me beats the Black Crowes at their-own-Faces-conjuring game and remains the best post-Replacements solo record. Tommy Stinson muses on a life he never asked for but can't ever leave"
X Link 2024-02-22T03:36Z 17.6K followers, 16.8K engagements
"A voyeuristic devotional freighted with bone-deep confession Gram Parsons Brass Buttons is the saddest song I know of about losing someone you love before you could tell them everything they needed to know no matter how weird. Deep secrets. Terrible beauty. Unscalable grief"
X Link 2024-02-26T03:32Z 17.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Lou Reed's "What's Good" ranks along the best songs written about life's irreconcilable contradictions: the vulnerability and joy of devotion the unscalable rage and pain of capricious loss and the desire to do the entire thing over again just for one more hour or one last day"
X Link 2024-02-27T01:28Z 17.6K followers, 16.9K engagements
"Forty-six minutes of MC5-style broadsides visionary world music sprawling dub and instant classic rock the Clashs [----] LP Combat Rock is the exhilarating sound of a totally exhausted band who still wouldnt stand for less than everything. If theyd only taken two years off"
X Link 2024-03-01T01:00Z 17.6K followers, 24.2K engagements
"Forty rad minutes of cracked actors midnight cowboys ecstatic soul and subversive singalongs for anyone who's ever had a heart the adjacency to mainstream pop on VUs Loaded LP only underscores the deep reservoir of perversity at its core. Doug Yule is criminally underrated"
X Link 2024-03-04T03:28Z 17.6K followers, 10.4K engagements
"As subversive as anything released by his idol Lou Reed Jonathan Richman's songs on the Modern Lovers' self-titled LP replace the urban-junkie-drama of VU with something far creepier: Eisenhower-era American myths-meet-the-suburban-excesses of the 70's. Found in the supermarket"
X Link 2024-03-07T02:35Z 17.6K followers, 18.7K engagements
"A breathtaking gut punch of personal inventory and cosmic loneliness Pavement's "Here" is Malkmus's first unvarnished masterpiece: a miracle alchemy of VU's 3rd and Westerberg's museum-of-losers balladry all bad jokes and long goodbyes. A "Dark End Of The Streets" for the 90's"
X Link 2024-03-09T03:13Z 17.6K followers, 16.1K engagements
"A song that sounds scared of what it knows Springsteen's 'Atlantic City' is the moment in which the ultra-violence always latent in his urban picaresques turns manifest and terrifying. Some say to live outside the law you must be honest. Others incur debts no honest man can pay"
X Link 2024-03-12T00:58Z 17.7K followers, 21.9K engagements
"Neil Young's 'Hey Hey My My' remains the bleakest and best of his meditations on 60's indulgence and spiritual decay. When he sings "rock and roll can never die" it's with the shell-shocked assurance of one who has tried everything in his power and can't kill the fucking thing"
X Link 2024-03-17T01:40Z 20.7K followers, 26.4K engagements
"Good piece by Marc Hogan on the stultifying role of private equity in an ever-shrinking music industry ecosystem. Short of legislative and/or regulatory intervention the landscape for non-consensus manufactured musicians will be soon fully uninhabitable"
X Link 2024-03-18T17:05Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"A shambling postscript to the comparatively focused trash-rock landmark Some Girls the Stones Emotional Rescue LP readily out-sleazes the New York Dolls at their own game and suggests what the Faces might've looked like had they lasted one bar fight longer. Simple and true"
X Link 2024-03-19T01:34Z 17.7K followers, 22.8K engagements
"All stimulation and the Attractions perpetual motion machine Elvis Costellos This Years Model is the moment wherein he fully transmographies from tremulous folky into the manic blur of romantic obsessive insult comedian and doom speaking prophet we'd have to learn to love"
X Link 2024-03-20T02:28Z 17.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Released a month apart Joe Jackson's 'Night And Day' and Elvis Costello's 'Imperial Bedroom' are twinned visions of a punk-rock Tin Pan Alley weaponized by two wits worthy of Cole Porter and Moss Hart. Countless great songs on both but the standard is Jackson's "Stepping Out""
X Link 2024-03-21T02:13Z 17.8K followers, 49.9K engagements
"The Replacement's 'Tim' is as powerful an evocation of working class life as any by Springsteen or Pulp. Resentment and joy dwell in nearly every detail: bus route courtships scared-but-stalwart-single-mothers and the watering holes where every night dreams both blossom and die"
X Link 2024-03-26T01:25Z 20.7K followers, 44.6K engagements
"Five decades later Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927" remains a subtle miracle. Three minutes of wry alchemy which manages to recount a tragedy lost to history and a people forgotten by time without resorting to cheap sentimentality or class condescension. A perfect American song"
X Link 2024-03-27T03:02Z 17.8K followers, 18.2K engagements
"Conjuring ZZ Top and the Dead in the same way that the Minutemen alchemized CCR and Van Halen the Meat Puppets' oddball boogie odyssey Huevos is one of the great American guitar records. An alternate history of punk wherein its major deity isnt Johnny Thunders its JJ Cale"
X Link 2024-04-01T03:10Z 17.9K followers, 12.1K engagements
"The Clash's 'Lost In The Supermarket reimagines the nervous highway thrills of Jonathan Richman's "Roadunner" as a forced march through suburban hellscapes and special offers. Perhaps the finest song ever written about the acute paradoxical loneliness of the high consumer age"
X Link 2024-04-03T02:12Z 20.7K followers, 29.5K engagements
"Happy birthday to Richard Thompson a master songwriter and instrumentalist vibrating on a profoundly strange frequency between the sinister and the sacred. My husband and I attempted the impossible task of ranking his astonishing catalog a few years back. https://www.stereogum.com/1826762/richard-thompson-albums-from-worst-to-best/lists/ https://www.stereogum.com/1826762/richard-thompson-albums-from-worst-to-best/lists/"
X Link 2024-04-04T01:58Z 17.9K followers, 37.4K engagements
"Happy birthday to Merle Haggard whose wide screen storytelling and underdog anthems comprise perhaps the finest American Songbook of all. I tried ranking his Top Ten songs for Stereogum some years back- a futile gesture but a fun excuse to play his tunes https://www.stereogum.com/1870888/the-10-best-merle-haggard-songs/lists/ https://www.stereogum.com/1870888/the-10-best-merle-haggard-songs/lists/"
X Link 2024-04-07T01:38Z 17.9K followers, 26.2K engagements
"Six staggering minutes chronicling a five thousand year continuum of human oppression from the dawn of man to the Mississippi Delta Bob Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell" is the saddest song written about the failed promises of America. This land is your land. This land is condemned"
X Link 2024-04-09T01:50Z 18K followers, 20.3K engagements
"Underscoring Uncle Tupelos role as the inheritor of the Minutemen's union-centric punk consciousness "Graveyard Shift" is four minutes and forty seconds of quick twitch riffs dead end jobs and a darkness thats spread well past the edge of town. NAFTA looms. Together we burn"
X Link 2024-04-10T02:52Z 18K followers, 20.1K engagements
"Happy birthday to Lowell George whose wandering spirit and slanted and enchanted imagination seems to enliven us more and more with each passing day even as we lament his absence. A few years back I wrote about Lowell and Little Feat for Oxford American. https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-115-winter-2021/lowell-george-in-eight-and-a-half-songs https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-115-winter-2021/lowell-george-in-eight-and-a-half-songs"
X Link 2024-04-14T03:02Z 18K followers, 23.4K engagements
"Over at the Ringer I wrote about the benevolent wrecking machine that is Scottie Scheffler on the heels of his dominant Sunday at the Masters. He's affable he's unflappable and it might not be too soon to declare him the next legendary American golfer. https://www.theringer.com/2024/4/15/24130560/scottie-scheffler-wins-the-masters-2024 https://www.theringer.com/2024/4/15/24130560/scottie-scheffler-wins-the-masters-2024"
X Link 2024-04-15T16:25Z 18K followers, 38.6K engagements
"A moving statement of purpose which became a melancholy valediction The Minutemens History Lesson Part [--] is one part Proustian-reminisce and one part punk-rock pep talk. If three corndogs from San Pedro can change the world then at least I should try. I miss D. Boon every day"
X Link 2024-04-17T01:00Z 18K followers, 20.3K engagements
"From the humble-brag-suicidal-ideation of Poor Poor Pitiful Me to the sorry-if-I-offended you tantrum of "Bad Karma" to the send-the-trust-fund antics of "Lawyers Guns & Money" no songwriter has wrung more withering satire from solipsistic male entitlement than Warren Zevon"
X Link 2024-04-19T00:22Z 20.7K followers, 30.4K engagements
"Loitering at the back end of Tattoo You like an opportunistic hustler Tops is a personal favorite of mine amidst Rolling Stones' deep cuts: all attitudinal swagger bullshit Jagger come-ons and life affirming groove. The low commitment "Moonlight Mile". Your beast of burden"
X Link 2024-04-23T01:48Z 18K followers, 11.7K engagements
"Having fled his ball-busting hometown gathered the band and proved it all night to the point of masochistic exhaustion Springsteens Darkness On The Edge Of Town is the slow burning nervous breakdown of a man coming to doubt what hes sure of. Everything means less than zero"
X Link 2024-04-26T02:42Z 18.1K followers, 26.3K engagements
"The Proustian-beauty of Van Morrison combined with the haunted post-war angst of The Kinks John Cales Paris [----] is one of R&R's strangest and most transporting experiences: nine songs over thirty-two minutes which somehow seem to summarize the global sweep of human history"
X Link 2024-04-28T03:51Z 18.1K followers, 18K engagements
"Five decades later the enigma of Van Morrison's 'Moondance' remains the disjunction between its joyful mainline into the transcendent mysteries of life and the sour bitter paranoid man who rendered it. Doubly strange: it's not like he just went senile. He was always this way"
X Link 2024-05-01T02:29Z 18.1K followers, 31K engagements
"A fever dream of creeping spiritual corruption Don Henley's "Boys Of Summer" may be the best song written about the failed revolutions of the 60's and the nightmare of disillusioned consumerism that follows from its wake. The first spasms of the angry investor class. Buckle up"
X Link 2024-05-02T03:03Z 20.7K followers, 113.9K engagements
"Like George Jones fronting the Velvets at their most restrained Kris Kristoffersons Sunday Morning Coming Down is a pitch-perfect spiritual about being the last one to grasp that your life needs to change. As Zevon once put it: The shit that used to work/ It wont work now"
X Link 2024-05-05T01:08Z 18.2K followers, 18.5K engagements
"'2000 Light Years From Home' wrings five legitimately mind-bending minutes out of the Stones' otherwise uneasy forays into psychedelia forging the prescription for Stone Roses and Madchester in the process. Their most unlikely masterpiece. Alternate title: 'Tomorrow Never Asks'"
X Link 2024-05-06T02:11Z 18.2K followers, 10.8K engagements
"'Nashville Skyline' is the situation when Bob Dylan acts like it's perfectly normal that his new LP is awildly horny 28-minute Country & Western album wherein he sings like a particularly hash-drunkDean Martin andwe all agree that it's perfect. Throw my ticket out the window"
X Link 2024-05-07T01:09Z 20.7K followers, 54.6K engagements
"Albini could say the dumbest things but the broad outlines of his cultural philosophy were visionary. We live in a docile age of obedient consumerism and consensus-driven political and corporate tyranny. This isn't mandatory. Anger can be power. Did you know that you can use it"
X Link 2024-05-09T01:00Z 20.7K followers, 74.9K engagements
"This is an astonishing list. For those of a certain age how many did you buy when released (From Vill Voice filched from @paranoiacs tread). I count [--]. https://t.co/fpLauWRNIZ For those of a certain age how many did you buy when released (From Vill Voice filched from @paranoiacs tread). I count [--]. https://t.co/fpLauWRNIZ"
X Link 2024-05-10T17:08Z 19.6K followers, 49.4K engagements
"Had the Clash only been a cover band they'd still be world historic. Their covers of Police On My Back Armagideon Time Look Here and Brand New Cadillac opened up worlds to me that might have remained secret indefinitely. Their great legacy is as cultural code-breakers"
X Link 2024-05-11T02:49Z 20.7K followers, 55.2K engagements
"Incredibly fun day reporting from the @LPGA's Cognizant Founders Cup. Nelly Korda played great but Rose Zhang was amazing. Find the highlights of her birdying four of her final five holes to erase a three shot deficit on the back nine it was straight Tiger at his most gangster"
X Link 2024-05-13T00:31Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements
"An anxious deconstruction of the performance of fame culminating in a full fledged nervous breakdown The Beatles' 'Sgt. Peppers' is a confectionery nightmare consisting of half-recalled Music Hall panic-attack childhoods and barely fixed holes in their psyche. Their saddest LP"
X Link 2024-05-13T01:00Z 18.3K followers, 17.8K engagements
"Can Rory McIIroy finally win after a 10-year major drought Will Scottie Scheffler's amazing dominance continue Will the Scandinavians (my people) break through at Valhalla Over at The Ringer @megschuster and I previewed golf's second major of the year https://www.theringer.com/2024/5/15/24157080/pga-championship-scottie-scheffler-brooks-koepka-rory-mcilroy https://www.theringer.com/2024/5/15/24157080/pga-championship-scottie-scheffler-brooks-koepka-rory-mcilroy"
X Link 2024-05-15T16:03Z 18.3K followers, 31.8K engagements
"People get ready. Major Paranoid Style news coming down the pike. Rock & Roll shows special deals and all of the other dirty work that makes a balls-to-the-wall pub rock band like ours a viable option until we get arrested. Choose yr. lane but you'll strike out if you miss us"
X Link 2024-05-16T02:02Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A cringeworthy cross-country crucible following two of the last holdouts from the hippie dream Albert Brooks' Lost In America is the funniest film about 60s utopianism crash landing into the twin icebergs of self-obsession and trickle down economics. All the nest eggs blown"
X Link 2024-05-16T02:18Z 18.3K followers, 13.1K engagements
"Fifty-six years after the fact VUs White Light/White Heat remains a miraculous shotgun wedding between weapons-grade avant-garde and barrelhouse blues paving the nefarious bridge between Fats Domino and Albert Ayler that no one else was insane enough to see. The Gift indeed"
X Link 2024-05-17T01:31Z 18.3K followers, 22.2K engagements
"Thirty four minutes of brazen swagger spitfire hooks and barely sublimated class anxiety The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me is one of rock-n-rolls great underdog passion plays. Lonesome skyways narrow ledges and the flickering pulse of a dream. Im in love with that song"
X Link 2024-05-18T01:49Z 20.7K followers, 27.7K engagements
"A visionary elegy Lou Reeds New York posits Manhattan as a test case for an America riven by income inequality ecological chaos and downward-mobility. Smart enough to pinpoint unregulated Wall Street as the culprit. Sad enough to recognize it was all fixable if wed wanted"
X Link 2024-05-19T02:55Z 18.3K followers, 27.4K engagements
"Xander Schuaffele is finally a major champion Bryson DeChambeau was startling likable and Scottie Scheffler went to jail and still finished T-8. Over at the Ringer I recapped the Winners and Losers from a chaotic week at the PGA Championship in Valhalla https://www.theringer.com/2024/5/20/24160566/pga-championship-scottie-scheffler-xander-schauffele-valhalla-golf-club https://www.theringer.com/2024/5/20/24160566/pga-championship-scottie-scheffler-xander-schauffele-valhalla-golf-club"
X Link 2024-05-20T16:13Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Anticipating the brilliantly askew pastoralism of R.E.M. by a half decade Televisions second LP Adventure replaces the shock-and-awe grandeur of Marquee Moon with something even more startling: a reimagining of punk rock premised on the Grateful Dead instead of the Stooges"
X Link 2024-05-22T00:31Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements
"New live version of "The Findings" from the recent Paranoid Style LP 'The Interrogator' played at Motorhead-speed. I can't fully explain the context but I'm pleased with the outcome. Be like people like NPR Zach Lipez Bob Christgau and Pitchfork. Get hip to 'The Interrogator.'"
X Link 2024-05-22T01:12Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Needless to say I am spending Dylan's 83rd birthday at the rad Bob Dylan suite of the Inn at Tyler Hill in Pennsylvania. That's just common sense. Here's to eight decades of being born. Here's a Pitchfork Sunday review of 'Desire' I wrote a few months ago. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bob-dylan-desire/ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bob-dylan-desire/"
X Link 2024-05-25T03:25Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Ive always found it piquant that Jenny Lewis and Elvis Presley share the same birthday since she's my hard first choice to play him in the all female Million Dollar Quartet reboot which is my last and final goal on this tentative Earth. (Carl Perkins you ask Courtney Barett.)"
X Link 2024-05-28T02:43Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Happy birthday to John Fogerty whose greatest songs seem to have emerged fully formed from an elemental American consciousness. Here's a piece I wrote for The Ringer a few years back about CCR's endlessly defiant and nourishing 'Willy & The Poor Boys' LP. https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/11/26/20983063/creedence-clearwater-revival-willy-and-the-poor-boys-50th-anniversary https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/11/26/20983063/creedence-clearwater-revival-willy-and-the-poor-boys-50th-anniversary"
X Link 2024-05-28T16:09Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Bristling with pop hooks political anxiety and the freighted historical nightmare of the American south REM's 'Life's Rich Pageant' miraculously splits the difference between their mysterioso early work and their onset voice-of-a-generation obligations. A great American record"
X Link 2024-05-29T02:02Z 18.4K followers, 12K engagements
"Happy birthday to Stephen Malkmus whose suave boogie traces maps around the more sinister outposts of the American exurbs. Here is a Ringer piece I wrote a few years back about 'Wowee Zowee' Raymond Carver and what we talk about when we talk about both. https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/4/17/21221355/pavement-wowee-zowee-25th-anniversary https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/4/17/21221355/pavement-wowee-zowee-25th-anniversary"
X Link 2024-05-30T17:25Z 18.4K followers, 11.6K engagements
"My popular series Inferno Side Chats is back for a special dispatch about high-profile musicians the dismal path of anxious excess and the benefits of shrouding ourselves in quality garments Get in there and feel better Buy a shirt. The sale won't last. https://theparanoidstyle.bigcartel.com/ https://theparanoidstyle.bigcartel.com/"
X Link 2024-05-31T00:53Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Between the years [----] and [----] John Cale released two world-historic LP's with the Velvet Underground recorded the masterwork solo records Vintage Violence and Paris [----] and produced epochal debuts by the Stooges and Modern Lovers. Still somehow a subtly underrated titan"
X Link 2024-05-31T01:48Z 20.7K followers, 33.5K engagements
"Elvis Costello's great "I Hope You're Happy Now" is the penny-dropping moment when EC's narrator finally realizes that even his prized arsenal of insults won't compensate for the pain of his pathological narcissism. Every blow lands but the bayonet may as well be pointed inward"
X Link 2024-06-03T03:25Z 18.4K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Fifty years later Randy Newman's 'Louisiana 1927' remains a subtle miracle. Three minutes of wry alchemy which manages to recount a tragedy lost to history and a people forgotten by time without resorting to cheap sentiment or class-based condescension. A perfect American song"
X Link 2024-06-05T02:33Z 18.5K followers, 21K engagements
"Splitting the difference between Warren Zevon's belligerent self-negations and Richard Thompson's shiver-inducing courtship-by-menace Gordon Lightfoot's 'Sundown' is made all the more chilling by the laid back vibes of its MOR presentation. The mood is calm. The genre is horror"
X Link 2024-06-09T04:14Z 18.5K followers, 14.1K engagements
""Brothers here I stand/ Spread my wings and take command." Nothing like being surprised by the official Thin Lizzy version of Dublin's Bohemian FC jersey as a gift. Literally the best thing I've received in the mail since I renewed my Irish passport Thanks and slinte @keoghski"
X Link 2024-06-10T00:59Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@Bretontheradio I tried https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/11/26/20983063/creedence-clearwater-revival-willy-and-the-poor-boys-50th-anniversary https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/11/26/20983063/creedence-clearwater-revival-willy-and-the-poor-boys-50th-anniversary"
X Link 2024-06-11T03:41Z 18.6K followers, 14.5K engagements
"It's US Open time and I've gotta feeling that Pinehurst No. [--] is gonna play DIFFICULT. More on that plus Scottie Rory and Brooks the K in our Ringer preview of the big event As always thrilled to work with the peerless @megschuster and @matt_dollinger. https://www.theringer.com/2024/6/12/24176856/us-open-pinehurst-brooks-koepka-scottie-scheffler-rory-mcilroy https://www.theringer.com/2024/6/12/24176856/us-open-pinehurst-brooks-koepka-scottie-scheffler-rory-mcilroy"
X Link 2024-06-12T15:11Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"An even more shameless Stones rip-off than the one named Borrowed Tune Neils Mr. Soul is his first perfect song previewing decades of making the familiar weird and the weird familiar. His pitch Stick around while the clown that is sick does the trick of disaster. Yikes"
X Link 2024-06-13T02:36Z 18.6K followers, 16K engagements
"An oasis of pure wonder amidst the charmless tundra of so much of early punk's nihilistic pose Television's 'Venus' ranks alongside 'She Belongs To Me' and 'All I Have To Do Is Dream' in the pantheon of rock's thunderstruck love-song devotionals. Every riff falls so desperately"
X Link 2024-06-15T03:30Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Preparations occurring for the Paranoid Style opening for the Hold Steady next Friday 6/21 at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC. Sure expect Peter Holsapple on lead guitar and Mike V. on bass. But what else might you be missing Tickets are available here: https://www.930.com/e/the-hold-steady/ https://www.930.com/e/the-hold-steady/"
X Link 2024-06-16T01:42Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"An epic duel a shocking collapse and the evermore poignant and complicated legacy of Rory McIlroy in the sport of golf. Over at The Ringer I reflected on the meaning of Bryson Dechambeau's triumph at the US Open following a wild week at Pinehurst No [--]. https://www.theringer.com/2024/6/16/24179904/bryson-dechambeau-us-open-rory-mcilroy-pinehurst https://www.theringer.com/2024/6/16/24179904/bryson-dechambeau-us-open-rory-mcilroy-pinehurst"
X Link 2024-06-17T14:42Z 18.6K followers, 36.6K engagements
"Thanks so much to the Hold Steady We started it and believe me they intend to finish it. Huge thanks to The Paranoid Style (@paranoiacs) for getting Night [--] started Great to have you https://t.co/O01N0Yi29m Huge thanks to The Paranoid Style (@paranoiacs) for getting Night [--] started Great to have you https://t.co/O01N0Yi29m"
X Link 2024-06-22T01:11Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Happy 80th birthday to Ray Davies whose small c conservatism always rendered him the counter-culture Cassandra. He wrote "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" during the good times. He's the English Merle Haggard. Here's a Kinks thing I did for Stereogum. https://www.stereogum.com/1705287/the-kinks-albums-from-worst-to-best/photo/ https://www.stereogum.com/1705287/the-kinks-albums-from-worst-to-best/photo/"
X Link 2024-06-23T00:26Z 18.7K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Pure nitro is the only way to describe last night's events at the legendary 9:30 Club when the Paranoid Style opened up for the amazing Hold Steady and all of DC shook A million thanks to friends and fans who made it out and especially to @theholdsteady for having us. HELL YEAH"
X Link 2024-06-23T00:50Z 18.8K followers, 12.7K engagements
"The miraculous outcome from Billy Gibbon's rad desire to make ZZ Top sound more like Depeche Mode Eliminator is forty-five minutes of ecstatic hooks and Fairlight boogie weaving together Texas and London grooves and creating an entirely novel musical vernacular in the process"
X Link 2024-06-26T01:15Z 18.7K followers, 26.6K engagements
"Happy birthday to Mick Jones the Burt Bacharach to Joe Strummer's Dionne Warwick in the Clash: a compositional genius abetted and constrained by a brilliant but very specific singer. The first [--] BAD records are barnburners. Do I own the same hat he wore in "The Globe" vid I do"
X Link 2024-06-27T02:26Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Today marks [--] years of marital mischief with this singularly funny and special dude. We have gotten up to some stuff I don't mind telling you. Looking forward to spending all the rest of our days on Earth together and all of the days afterward if there's some kind of loophole"
X Link 2024-06-27T18:32Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Evincing grief and wonder on a nearly cosmic scale Bob Dylans Its All Over Now Baby Blue is simultaneously an empathetic eulogy for a dying era and an emphatic warning to be vigilant about whats coming next. Forget the dead. Use your sins. Strike another match. Start anew"
X Link 2024-06-28T03:10Z 18.7K followers, 11.8K engagements
"Seven days or one week ago The Paranoid Style opened for the legendary Hold Steady at what many of us consider the the finest rock club in the world. Thanks to @theholdsteady and @930Club for this epic exchange of ideas. Here's a bit of us performing Last Night In Chickentown"
X Link 2024-06-29T02:53Z 19.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The Clashs Lost In The Supermarket recasts the giddy highway thrills of Jonathan Richmans Roadrunner as a dehumanizing forced march through suburban hellscapes and special offers. The finest song ever written about the acute paradoxical loneliness of the high consumer age"
X Link 2024-06-30T01:21Z 20.7K followers, 23.7K engagements
"The singular moment when Paul Westerbergs cheap guitar tricks and underdog ethos seamlessly coalesced into his finest political song Bastards Of Young remains a landmark of outward indifference and subtextual rage. A union anthem for after the unions died. Color me oppressed"
X Link 2024-07-01T02:29Z 18.9K followers, 21.9K engagements
"An underreported part of popular music history is Glyn Johns rescuing everything from Let It Be to 'Who's Next' to Combat Rock from the illegibility of too many ideas expressed in too incoherent a fashion. He is basically rock & roll's version of The Wolf from Pulp Fiction"
X Link 2024-07-03T02:32Z 20.7K followers, 47.5K engagements
"Bob Dylan is my bag so I was super honored to contribute liner notes to Columbia Records brand new 27-disc () reissue The [----] Recordings highlighting Dylan and The Bands fabled reunion tour The new collection is pure nitro and raw power- a corker https://pitchfork.com/news/bob-dylan-announces-massive-new-box-set-the-1974-live-recordings/ https://pitchfork.com/news/bob-dylan-announces-massive-new-box-set-the-1974-live-recordings/"
X Link 2024-07-09T16:55Z 20.7K followers, 45.4K engagements
"Like a punk rock Sticky Fingers The Replacements' All Shook Down is the LP where a decade of antic excess reveals itself as a barely adequate band-aid for a lifetime of sublimated trauma. Its what The Stooges once called no fun but its no fun in the best and truest sense"
X Link 2024-07-15T01:58Z 19K followers, 31.8K engagements
"As subversive in his way as George Carlin or Lenny Bruce Bob Newhart's crucial insight was that the buttoned-up presentation of America's post-war expansion was narrowly papering over quantum levels of weirdness. His true cultural inheritors are Jonathan Richman and David Lynch"
X Link 2024-07-19T00:55Z 20.7K followers, 21.5K engagements
"And in other news Xander Schauffele carded a Sunday [--] to win his second major of [----] at the Open Championship. This should be a boom time for golf if the sport would stop tripping all over itself. I wrote about his triumphant effort over at the Ringer. https://www.theringer.com/2024/7/21/24203159/xander-schauffele-wins-open-championship-royal-troon https://www.theringer.com/2024/7/21/24203159/xander-schauffele-wins-open-championship-royal-troon"
X Link 2024-07-21T23:18Z 19K followers, [----] engagements
"With its slithering promenade of junkie nurses stalking killers and mandatory moral compromises the Stones Let It Bleed is a forty-two minute exercise in molten belligerence recasting the Hippie Dream as a post-capitalist hellscape. Ever had the feeling youve been cheated"
X Link 2024-07-26T03:06Z 19K followers, 12.4K engagements
"Six staggering minutes chronicling a five thousand year continuum of human oppression from the dawn of man to the Mississippi Delta Bob Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell" is the saddest song written about the failed promises of America. This land is your land. This land is condemned"
X Link 2024-07-31T03:31Z 19.1K followers, 22.2K engagements
""Total revenue for Spotify in [----] was $4 billion. Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king." Over at the NY Times I wrote about how the predatory outcomes of the streaming economy are being rewritten by the winners. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/magazine/how-music-got-free-documentary.htmlunlocked_article_code=1._U0.dXL4.DLTCPY9UD-ps&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/magazine/how-music-got-free-documentary.htmlunlocked_article_code=1._U0.dXL4.DLTCPY9UD-ps&smid=url-share"
X Link 2024-07-31T14:31Z 19.2K followers, 26.4K engagements
"All wry aphorisms nervous hooks and ambitious genre moves Elvis Costellos [----] Imperial Bedroom is the moment when his incurable polymath tendencies finally overrode his New Wave-Dylan aspirations and re-situated him as the punk-rock Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead [--] Revisited"
X Link 2024-08-02T01:22Z 19.1K followers, 106.6K engagements
"Some nights I lie awake and ponder the genius of Joni Mitchell's 'Coyote': Little Feat's 'Willin' as re-written by Joyce Carol Oates and rearranged by the Modern Jazz Quartet. A letter perfect response to 'Tangled Up In Blue' which raises the stakes and shrugs off the chauvinism"
X Link 2024-08-03T02:06Z 19.1K followers, 19.7K engagements
"ICYMI Over at the New York Times Magazine I wrote about the recent Paramount+ documentary 'How Music Got Free' and the ludicrous new party line being proffered by industry elites even as streaming platforms continue to destroy a broader music ecosystem. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/magazine/how-music-got-free-documentary.htmlunlocked_article_code=1._U0.dXL4.DLTCPY9UD-ps&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/magazine/how-music-got-free-documentary.htmlunlocked_article_code=1._U0.dXL4.DLTCPY9UD-ps&smid=url-share"
X Link 2024-08-04T00:32Z 19.1K followers, 18.9K engagements
"Shunting aside their early Byrds-fixations in favor of Fairport Conventions gnomic philosophizing and the light menace of Blue Oyster Cult REMs Fables Of The Reconstruction is a genuinely strange and wonderful stop on the fast track to global fame. Automatic For The Weirdos"
X Link 2024-08-05T04:35Z 19.1K followers, 12.8K engagements
"ICYMI Over at The Atlantic I wrote about Neil Young's harrowing masterpiece On the Beach and how the broken moral compass of the Hippie generation would gradually evolve into a reactionary political juggernaut obsessed with wealth and personal vanity. https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/07/neil-young-on-the-beach-50th-anniversary/679307/gift=jYEJ_PxRoF79Zol3tqG4sLNOh04GFbfdLNsIgTKLX4g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share"
X Link 2024-08-06T01:15Z 20.7K followers, 43.8K engagements
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