Friday, October 12, 2012

Read Stuff, You Should

Happy Birthday to Bob Mould, 52.  As good as there is.

And some good stuff after all:

1. John Sides, pre-debate.

2. Joseph Cera on the Veep debate and public opinion.

3 Really good Adam Serwer item on Libya, Team Obama, and "politicization."

4. And Ann Friedman continues GIFing the debates.

7 comments:

  1. How about when Ryan said his greatest skill was "honesty"? Did I hear that right?

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    1. Ha, yes, he blurted that out so quickly that I did a double-take too.

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  2. JB, as someone who is completely ignorant of all things Bob Mould, what is his best work?

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    1. I'm not sure you would get a single answer on that one. Here's what I'm listening to today, though:

      Workbook (solo)
      Metal Circus (Husker Du)
      The Living End (Husker Du)
      Copper Blue (Sugar)
      Body of Song (solo)

      Which isn't at all a best-of, but is pretty career-spanning. Let's see...to select out five tracks is pretty impossible, but I'll try anyway.

      First of the Last Calls (early Husker Du)
      Ice Cold Ice (late Husker Du)
      See a Little Light (early solo)
      A Good Idea (Sugar)
      High Fidelity (late solo)

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    2. Guess it's proof that I'm a sellout poser, but I always liked the album "Candy Apple Grey." If you want an example of Mould having a big musical range in terms of what he could write, "Hardly Getting Over It" is a good best of track too.

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  3. IMO, start with the Husker Du albums Zen Arcade and New Day Rising. I think that was their peak.

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