This is apparently a cover, which I hadn’t really realized before. Smile, the album that opens with this song, is on the more accessible end of Boris’s work. There are plenty of vocals on the record, plenty of things that are recognizable melodies, and generally not as much of the harsh noise. That’s not to say that it’s easy listening or anything, just that in the context of their career, it’s pretty approchable.
[Read More]I dunno, sometimes this stuff just is what it is.
I enjoy all of the songs Ringo sings. There, I said it!
Listen to how shamelessly huge that drum beat is! This band is absolutely not afraid to throw a corny vamp like this on their album, and commit to it completely. Fearlessness is underrated in a rock band.
[Read More]I like the way that the music keeps coming in and out of this interstitial. That’s about the best I can say.
The last track from her debut record, Attack of the Attacking Things (which is an amazing name), this album established Grae as an excellent new artist in hip hop. Her rhymes were really interesting, often twisty things, and it made for a pretty different record from most of what you could hear at the time. The only problem with her is that she just hasn’t made very many records. And this song is kind of short.
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