Oh not at all. “One member asks if they want him to quit, two respond by repeating what he says in Spanish” is one of the more evocative moments.

it’s wild how this album is so much shorter than sandinista yet feels largely like leftovers.

I find Stone Roses worship (as opposed to liking them ok) weirdly adorable. I technically know the factors that made it happen, but it still feels like there’s some sort of ephemeral pixie dust they stopped sprinkling on you English and us anglophiles right before I started paying attention.

He really did have a gift. I mean what was “these alt-rockers really need some rap beats” if not an old man struggling to express the hole in the market place eventually filled by imagine dragons.

lol uh ohhhhh, iovine gave us henley’s best single

I have the best-of for those, all on geffen before it was part of umg. But he made his 00s album on WB - named Inside Job, and I haven’t dared hear it iirc. Lost Highway - which put out the eagles reunion - is NOW umg but wasn’t then. & Jimmy left umg right before henley’s capitol/umg debut in ‘15.

I must confess this metaphor offends me, because I really love that delightful episode where an Anthony finally gets to live our best life.

I had to look up what label Henley was on in the 00s to see if he was potentially one of the couple dozen acts Iovine suggested collaborate with Timbaland. But it seems they were ships in the industry consolidation night.

“I once knew an RFK Jr, that the worm should have gotten to soonyer” was right in the intro…

2008 is when I became a nyc yuppie instead of a Philly freelancer/clerk with a housemate who gets lots of promos, then streaming happened, and the sudden ability to explore the past with a click sure curtailed my desire to embrace the new.

It might be! My smiles looking back disappear by 2008, but I don’t know how much of that is due to lifestyle changes.

I realize the guy who just gave DJT props for his brilliant work win Israel sooo ain’t gonna do this, but it would be the ultimate chance for dems to show they at least ASPIRE to civic-minded selflessness aren’t merely *pragmatic* and corrupt.

I don’t think I ever got them in PA ironically! But there’s a location I pass getting groceries back on the school commute and it called me today.

I had my order & coffee before “Jeremy” was over, leaving an elderly lady in a TEAM JESUS baseball cap the only non-employee there to hear Wooooooaaahhhhhhohhhohhohoh oh oh oh oh WOOOAHHH

“Gnashed his teeth and bit the recess lady’s BREHHST”- truly the last thing I expected to hear walking through the door of a donut chain

If you want to honor Neil Young’s 80th by spending time with his modern self, I highly recommend going with 2021’s BARN - the highlight of his latest late era. “his best album since the one about electric cars, if not the rock opera about hippie farmers.” anthony-is-writing.ghost.io/my-10-favori...

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