For once in my life, I'm out of things to say. Except: there's been a new issue of Wowee Zowee, the Sordid Sentinels Edition, with a(n absurd) total of 50 tracks--the last 32 of which are b-sides, outtakes, and live tracks. Yeah, that makes this album less all-over-the-place.
- 'Song Against Sex,' Neutral Milk Hotel
- 'A Forest,' Okkervil River
- 'Interlude,' MK Ultra
- 'Paris 2004,' Peter Bjorn and John
- 'Five Easy Places,' Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- 'Half a Canyon,' Pavement
- 'Erroneous Escape Into Eric Eckles,' Of Montreal
- 'Cold Brains,' Beck
- 'Future & Folly,' Blitzen Trapper
- 'Pearls on a String,' Ryan Adams
Oh, I'll also say this about the latest Ryan Adams album: "Pearls on a String" is one of the three or four really good songs on it (which of course is what we've come to expect, right?). The problem is, what I consider the best song on the album--"Halloweenhead"--is almost entirely ruined when Adams hollers "guitar solo!" after the second chorus. Is this not the aural equivalent of air guitar? Or am I alone in being annoyed by such a gesture?
