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YIKES this isn't really my list, it's just some stuff we talked about as we wrapped up. I adore the Beatle box except for the packaging. (Still, this fits in with their longstanding tradition of tanscending Capitol's packaging.) The real find is Reigning Sound, which gets better upon each listening. … [Read more...]

Wisconsin Public Radio Tuesday, August 10, 2004  at  10:00 AM Veronica Rueckert's guest, after ten, says that, contrary to what conservative critics say, rock'n roll has helped baby boomers and later generations become better friends, better parents, and better citizens. Guest: Tim Riley, pop … [Read more...]

"Missing the Point" No. 3 on Austin's Book People New and Noteworthy page. Keep track. ART OF COVERS Ever since David Byrne's BELEZA TROPICALE (1989) compilation, I've followed Bahia's Caetano Veloso, even wrote up his Knopf autobiography for Boston Review, a piece that never ran. One of the … [Read more...]

Our man Devin McKinney gets high praise for MAGIC CIRCLES from novelist Andrew O'Hagan in the NYRB: The Beatles are the super-boomers' house band. Even people who don't care about popular music—especially those, one might argue—are conscious of how these English songwriters may have harnessed the … [Read more...]

Sat 10 Apr 2004 John and Yoko. Her supporters are critical of lingering British dislike for the women they think stole their Beatle. by TIM CORNWELL, ARTS CORRESPONDENT, THE SCOTSMAN IF HE were alive today, he might well have approved. As Yoko Ono prepares to bring the most complete collection of … [Read more...]

So I arrive in London last night after an interminable British Airways flight after watching SHATTERED GLASS, that movie about the NEW REPUBLIC fiction scandal, which I stuck with only because people like Chloe Sevigny and Steve Zahn were in it. Lead performance was pretty decent, it was the writing … [Read more...]

If I weren't nursing my sick 3-year-old, I'd be all over this GREY ALBUM controversy. So let me toss up a few notes: Danger Mouse is an ingenious DJ, not quite an artist, but the record gives you a LOT to listen to, and a lot to think about. He should be celebrated, not persecuted. Because of "Grey … [Read more...]

One more gripe (What flunkie decided Dave Mathews should play ACOUSTIC guitar on "I Saw Her Standing There"??? And Vince Gill's solo got buried!) before MOVING ON to my own FANTASY GRAMMY CATEGORIES: DVDsThe latest in pushing pre-recorded CDs is to stick a limited edition performance DVD in the … [Read more...]

Here are my entries to the Voice poll, with a couple new additions and some order juggling. Every year at this time I'm grateful I'm not obligated to listen to everything, and these lists help me keep in touch with stuff I might not otherwise chase down. I was dumbfounded to see Pareles pick the … [Read more...]

Before the year goes out I want to mention one of my favorite reads of recent months, even though it's copyright 2001 (now in Da Capo paper). James Harvey's MOVIE LOVE IN THE FIFTIES (Knopf) had me hankering for the nightly pre-sleep read, and it's added a score of flicks to my rental list. Harvey … [Read more...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you: The Hitler Diaries (Beatle edition). … [Read more...]

Here's a shamelessly immodest excerpt from Ron Rosenbaum's current OBSERVER column, which also wins LEAD OF THE MONTH: ...Anyway, all of this was running through my mind before the delayed murder charges. (The death occurred last February; Spector later told an Esquire writer, Scott Raab, that … [Read more...]

¶ After two episodes of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, we’re ready to give Liza Minelli the rebound award for “Best Save: Marriage and Career in Flames.” And she shouldn’t thank wardrobe, which hopefully is part of her character. ¶ Prison conversation between Spector and Jacko: “What are you in for?” … [Read more...]

¶ My kids totally loved CAT IN THE HAT, and there are two gags that tip it into the plus column for me: the infomercial (“Anything…?”), and the petition dude who says “Okay, I have trouble with the term ‘dog’…” ¶ So here’s the Beatles story WBUR’s HERE AND NOW ran yesterday, I’m already getting mail … [Read more...]

"It's not the Beatles playing alone live with no overdubs. That take of 'Don't Let Me Down' is very famous for Lennon flubbing the lyric in the middle. In the film, he sings a gibberish lyric in the middle verse and they just edit that out. So it's not naked; it's patched up. "The original idea was … [Read more...]