![]() Selling 1996’s A Few Small Repairs as a concept album about divorce, Colvin convinced herself that every other musical act before her had filled two sides of vinyl or seventy CD minutes with gibbon cries and songs about baking soda. I applauded, actually: a human statement, not the pre-fab sensitivity offered by “Sunny Came Home.” “I’m confused now!” was her response, and no one blamed her. I want you all to know that this is ODB, and I love you all, peace.” The winners, Shawn Colvin and John Leventhal, projected the bland hopelessness that everyone but Bob Dylan watching this remarkable evening felt. “I don’t know how you all see it, but when it comes to the children, Wu-Tang is for the children,” O.D.B. The 1997 Grammy Awards ceremony was so packed with batshitness that I should poll the highlights: Aretha Franklin subbing for Pavarotti and blasting “Nessun Dorma” to smithereens performance artist Michael Portnoy joining Bob Dylan to treat the world to his nude chest smeared with the phrase SOY BOMB Dylan looking as nonplussed as a dude watching a neighbor’s cat piss on his hedges.īut the bouquets belonged to another ham: Ol’Dirty Bastard, who upstaged the Song of the Year winners as Erykah Badu was about to pass them the trophy. Songs beloved by colleagues and songs to which I’m supposed to genuflect will get my full hurricane-force winds, but it doesn’t mean that I won’t take shots at a jukebox hero overplayed when I was at a college bar drinking a cranberry vodka in a plastic thimble-sized cup. ![]() I promise my readers that my list will when possible eschew obvious selections. I don’t want to hate songs to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive. That dude sucks.Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself with airplay and forbearance. No one wants to be known as the guy who says music died in 1976. Point is, the moment people cut themselves off is the moment they stop growing. For reference, Zero 7 was the group that gave Sia her start, years before she struck out as a solo artist. Even though you would find their albums in the EDM section at the record store (remember those?) it has more in common with rock fusion, jazz, and funk then anything. And during those early years, most of the people around me hated it. Liked it long before it became mainstream with Deadmau5, Daft Punk, etc. For example, I’ve been obsessed with electronic music for decades. Whether you have a preference for traditional sounds or something new, there’s always something being put out there. There has never been a year where someone hasn’t created something of value. But we are also so creative, expressive, and driven to discover new domains. ![]() We do a lot of really selfish, horrible things. I have a mixed relationship with humanity. No need to try anything new or different”. Like can you imagine if the impressionist of Europe went “well there best paintings have already been done. Imagine cutting yourself off of all that amazing music. It’s a common trope to say “such and such was when music was REAL”. Or perhaps she really is crazy and guilty of the past crime (whether she is actually consciously aware of it or not) and is now back to take out the town people who got her sent away and locked up. Perhaps it was an arson that killed her family when she was young and now she has come back as an adult to sit in their burnt-out kitchen plotting her revenge. Perhaps they got her institutionalised by pinning a fatal arson on her and now she's returned to ruin/kill them via the same method of arson they had accused her of. Strike a match, light the sky, world is burning down, dry is good wind is better etc.). time for a few small repairs, came home with a mission etc.) by burning them all down, probably in their homes (ie. She is going to fix it all, as in she's going to right the past wrongs done to her (ie. She has their names and will not rise above her bitterness and need for vengeance (ie. Ophelia Maples 1y Ssuna I've always interpreted the song as Sunny came home to her hometown to take revenge on all the people who did her wrong and got her sent away (maybe to an asylum, hence her unsound mental state).
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