TUESDAY NEW RELEASES: Neil Young’s Psychedelic Pill vs. Toby Keith’s ‘Girls That Drink Beer’
New Releases: DVD / Blu-Ray
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Safety Not Guaranteed (DVD / Blu-Ray)
Three journalists decide to write a story about a man who seeks someone to travel with him back in time. Starring Mark Duplass (The League), this quirky film sneaked under the radar and deserves a second look.
First Position (DVD / Blu-Ray)
Copper: Season One (DVD / Blu-Ray)
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (Blu-Ray) – Limited Edition!
This one speaks for itself: thirteen of the master of suspense’s greatest films, all on Blu-Ray in one collection. Only three of these films already exist on Blu-Ray, and the films cover the entirety of his career at an unbeatable price. Every film fan needs to own this.
Chuck: The Complete Series (DVD / Blu-Ray)
Rosemary’s Baby (Criterion Collection) (DVD / Blu-Ray)
A Christmas Story 2 (DVD / Blu-Ray)
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For all the bitching and moaning about technology killing the music industry, it’s amazing what’s available to the masses that used to require thousands of dollars worth of studio time to achieve. This week’s “Tech Finds” page features a guide to ultimate holiday gifts, including the best handheld audio recorder you never knew you needed – but trust us, you do. Also: A 9 disc exploration of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s best rare performances, and much more!
Actually, the song is “I Like Girls That Drink Beer”.
And yes I do.
Neil Young, proving that though Father Time remains an unbeatable foe, he can sometimes be negotiated into a holiday truce.
Quit peddling the Rap and the Hip Hop. It’s crap and you know it. It doesn’t make you seem edgy, it makes you seem like a person with zero taste.
I keep trying your suggestions in music and keep encountering the same tired arrangements without ambition or innovation or originality.
Andrew Bird, no, Iris Dement, no, Gainsbourg no. Whatever imperatives that once fueled an alternative to Top 40 in America seem long since spent. I’ve heard this stuff over and over and over. It’s fine for a coffee house.
I don’t blame the new generation. They’re up against an older generation who used to customize their amps, build their own electric guitars, and basically make up their own guitar tunings. And that’s just for starters. That kind of brash and authoritative artistic eccentricity seems lost in favor of eccentricity of personality and dress.
You are right. Many of these new, hip singer-songwriters are to popular music what the young writers who used to publish their clever short stories–during the seventies and eighties–in the little magazines (before moving up to the New Yorker) were to fiction. Yes, there is often some very real talent on display, and sometimes brief flashes of lyrical or musical originality, but not enough to keep you interested for long. Like the earlier group–who often spawned imitators– they seem to be performing exclusively to other aspiring singer-songwriters.
Folks need to check out Chris Duarte- a phenomenal guitarist/songwriter with a range from blues through psychedelic rock. . and NO mainstream pop crap. Also for those of a surf bent- the Mermen.