i made this for a friend who likes "pretty" songs. it was my attempt to make her fall in love with the pumpkins.

too twee to live or eternal naifs with an uncanny knack for classic pop? you make the call. "hurricane fighter plane" is a red crayola cover (before the "k" replaced the "c" in "crayola", mind you), an …

firstly, no, "wishing i was skinny" is not on here. i knew you would ask me why, and well, there's no real reason other than absent-mindedness and the fact that i've probably heard it one time too many …

part two of my aerosmith comp.

part one of my aerosmith comp. it's in no means a complete retrospective. i just threw these two discs together to listen to on the way to nissan pavilion to see them last night. little did i know that …

this is not really my take on the best of belle & sebastian , but rather an attempt to win a boy over on the beauty of this ou …

From Mr. Dynamite, Godfather of Soul, Hardest Working Man... blah blah... and one of the biggest assholes in the business. Unfortunately, he was responsible for some of the most earth-shattering, ass-s …

Long derided (and rightly so) for trading in their jazzy licks for 80s corporate power balladry, even Chicago's most famous songs of the 70s were geared more towards pop/rock radio. And while there alb …

Lush, heartbreaking pop at its best, rivalling the Beach Boys in the above category. Yes, the entire "Odessey (sic) and Oracle" album is included here... like Astral Weeks on my recently revised Van Mo …