[Bombs Away] Some things I need to admit

There are some things I need to admit:

Spoon doesn't suck. They aren't totally boring monotonous stoner rock like I have alleged in the past, behind closed doors to shocked and dismayed friends. Their record Gimme Fiction is great, with a few skippers, and they really work the stoner rock thing to put together some fucking brilliant tunes. "I Summon You" is so beautiful. The ending of the tune doesn't quite live up to the rest of it, but damn, what an amazing pop tune, and like everything on the record, done so delicately. The drummer for Spoon is perhaps one of the most restrained I've ever heard. The very subtle use of keyboard parts, a steady acoustic riff and and a melodic bassline. And Britt Daniels has The Fucking Voice. He fucking has it, that bastard. It's awesome. Even when his songs are boring, they STILL sound damn good.

Sister Jack, Was It You?, I Turn My Camera On, The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine, ALL amazing songs.

The other thing it's time to admit is that Ted Leo also doesn't totally suck. Not totally. I have in the past found his voice really hard to listen to, and his tunes really repetitive. It still kinda holds, but I've found on listening to Hearts of Oak again that wow, "Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?", "The High Party", and "The Ballad of Sin Eater" are fucking amazing songs. I didn't get much farther than that in the record before leaving me house today, but I put it on me ipod. For further inspection. Because I am a music snob. It's time for me to be admitting these things.

Also? I don't totally hate Coldplay anymore. The "Chill" channel on Sirius radio is often on over at my girlfriend's place and they drop the new cold play jams here and there. The tunes I've heard recently are actually pretty decent. I still can't listen to A Rush of Blood to the Head. But their tune "Don't Panic" on the Garden State soundtrack is beautiful.

And the part of me that just couldn't ever listen to Radiohead again after binging in college and hating their new stuff afterwards seems to have left for good. Found myself jamming out to Kid A for the first time in some two or three years this week. I forgot how much I love those songs. Especially the live cuts on I Might Be Wrong which was released sometime afterwards.

Coming soon: an actual review and some show listings. Send me your music, tell me about your shows:

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