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I loved this song, mostly for the syncopated mmm mmm’s at the end of it even before I was stunned to found out that even the folks at Pitchfork dig Justin Timberlake (making him not only acceptable to like by people of taste but mandatory). Your Thoughts?
Archive for March, 2010
278. Meat Loaf
March 30th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke Songs don’t come any more melodramatically ridiculous than Meat Loaf’s. But in my humble opinion, you’d have to be utterly humorless not to love at least a few of his songs. And I do, wholeheartedly and unabashedly: Your Thoughts?
279. Live
March 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Live makes the list this high for writing two of my all time 100 favorite songs, which both happen to be my favorite “anti-religion” songs, if you’ll allow me to be so reductionary for a moment in characterizing songs’ meanings: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Music, Music Videos, Videos 
Tags: "I Alone", "Selling The Drama", Live (The Band) 
No Comments »280. Low Anthem
March 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke I was instantly drawn to their sublime and gorgeous meditation on Darwin, “Charlie Darwin” with its beautiful video and have enjoyed the album a great deal: Here’s what they sound like in one of the rare cases in which they rock out: And more sublime meditative stuff: Your Thoughts?
281. Soundgarden
March 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke “Black Hole Sun” will always be an all time favorite song and video. ”My Wave” is no slouch either: Your Thoughts?
Pat Condell’s Case Against The Catholic Church
March 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke After a tasteless joke early on, he’s justly scathing and deserves to be heard: Christians are too blithe when they distinguish the evils perpetuated by Christian institutions from those same institutions’ claims to moral and spiritual authority as founded by God or, at least, to their being the church of God at all. How in [...]
Regular Philosophy, Ethics, and Atheism Blogging To Resume In April
March 27th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Last week I submitted my dissertation to my adviser and my readers. This weekend I am tying up some remaining loose ends and preparing a 25 page summary version of the dissertation to submit to my examiner, a member of my committee who reads only this abbreviated version of the dissertation rather than the entire [...]
282. Rollins Band/Black Flag
March 26th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Black Flag’s Damaged is some of the messiest screwiest punk around and one of Nirvana’s greatest ancestors and influences. Rollins Band’s album Weight is filled with what amounts to cheesy inspirational rants for weight lifters. I love ‘em both. But there’s one song that ranks the work of Henry Rollins as high on the list [...]
Posted in Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Liar", "TV Party", Black Flag, Henry Rollins, Punk, Rollins Band No Comments »283. Guns ‘N Roses
March 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke It’s a shame they only have three songs that interest me at all. But those three songs get my blood flowing like few others by anyone ever have or ever will. These are the kinds of special songs I save for special occasions: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Paradise City", "Welcome to the Jungle", Guns 'N Roses, Sweet Child o' Mine No Comments »284. Missy Elliott
March 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke She’s really inconsistent but at her best she’s one of the best: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Get Your Freak On", "Work It", Hip Hop, Missy Elliott, Rap No Comments »285. Alphabeat
March 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke I love half of their debut album, filled as it is with utterly joyous upbeat sugary retro-’80s-style pop with perfect duets. The other half always bored me but I never tire of their best five songs. Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”
March 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Finally, Weird Al’s story gets the cinematic treatment it deserves: “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” from Aaron Paul Your Thoughts?
286. Bill Withers
March 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke “Lean On Me”? ”Use Me”? ”Ain’t No Sunshine”? ”Harlem”? One of R&B’s most passionate and convincing lyricists and vocalists.
Posted in Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Ain't No Sunshine", "Lean On Me", "Use Me", Bill Withers, R&B No Comments »287. Martha Wainwright
March 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke The next artist on my 366 favorite artists countdown is the daughter of the last artist on the countdown. I’d say it’s a good chance that that’s only going to happen this once… I know what you’re thinking, “what’s next–the same guy’s son tomorrow?” Maybe. I’ve gotta think about it. Your Thoughts?
288. Loudon Wainwright III
March 20th, 2010 Daniel Fincke They might as well call him “loutish” Wainwright, if his daughter is to be any guide, she wrote a song about him called “Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole”. For his part, he passive aggressively accepts the title of “Mr. Guilty”: Your Thoughts?
289. Jesus Lizard
March 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke For a long time, to my discredit, I naively thought that Nirvana were either a singular phenomenon or a band whose closest cousin was Pearl Jam. Only when I started really listening to music did I realize what different musical universes Nirvana and Pearl Jam really existed in. And coming to this realization took some [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Puss", Grunge, Jesus Lizard, Nirvana 1 Comment »290. Madder Rose
March 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Dreamy lethargic ’90s grunge pop with a great female lead singer in Mary Lorson. What’s not to love? Your Thoughts?
291. The Burning Hell
March 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke An exciting recent find, I found this band in the wee hours of the morning during an overnighter working on the dissertation. I was listening to an archived October 2 interview with xkcd cartoonist Randall Munroe carried out last fall at Skeptically Speaking by Desiree Schnell. At the end of the file with their interview, The [...]
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Indie Music, Music, Music Videos, Parody, Satire, Videos Tags: "Everything You Believe Is A Lie", Claymation, Dinosaurs, Magnetic Fields, The Burning Hell, xkcd No Comments »292. Harry Nilsson
March 16th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Harry Nilsson is sort of a cross between John Lennon and Bob Dylan in my mind, I fell in love with his brilliant song “Don’t Forget Me” through the brilliant Neko Case’s version—but more on her in the late autumn. I’m also, embarrassingly enough, a sucker for the film “You’ve Got Mail”, so I opted [...]
Posted in Film, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Everybody's Talkin'", "One", "You've Got Mail", Don't Forget Me, Harry Nilsson, Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks No Comments »293. Nick Lowe
March 15th, 2010 Daniel Fincke They didn’t call him the Jesus of Cool for nothing. Or, at least he didn’t call himself that without providing some evidence: Your Thoughts?
294. Ryan Adams
March 14th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Dave here, your Camels With Hammers webmaster! Dan asked me to provide todays installment, as it’s one of my favorite artists, Ryan Adams, who I run a fan website and message board for at alt-country.org. Ryan fronted Whiskeytown, one of the most influential alternative country bands during the 90′s, and launched his solo career in [...]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Get Their Zeppelin On For New Song
March 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A few weeks ago Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers revealed they would be releasing a new album called Mojo this spring. Somewhat amazingly, this fulfilled the final of three major projects that Tom Petty had listed wanting to do four years ago. At the time I was skeptical he would actually put together a reunion [...]
297. Fleet Foxes
March 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke An atmospheric-bluegrass-folk-Beachboyharmony kind of bandwhose debut album is best listened to straight through so that it can wash over you. The first song below is my favorite of theirs and the second is another really good one put to a claymation video, so heads up to fans of claymation. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "He Doesn't Know Why", "White Winter Hymnal", Fleet Foxes No Comments »
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