Category: music excess
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Intro to Opera without Singing for Kids: Star Wars (1977-2019)
The Star Wars franchise is a pretty great thing to have around. Each production—movie, tv show, cartoon, game—strives to be the best example of that media of that year. We find each steeped in homage, desperate to entertain, disappointing and/or successful to varying degrees. We always get stilted dialogue and line readings, juvenile logistics, timeworn […]
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Hot Things, Xtraloveables and the Purple Hotness Index: Notes Towards a Prince Biopic
An infallible and unquestionably sound ranking of all Prince albums.
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Hopeful Apocalypse: The Sound Template for Carnivale
The apocalypse at the center of Carnivale — a heavily hyped battle between agents of good and evil that devolves into silly histrionics at series cancellation — layers a foundation of doom for small, strategically-placed epiphanies. The deeply wrought American-style poverty, dirt, dust storms, yellow and soot camera filters, chaw spittle, bad teeth, five-day growth, […]