Oh, and if you want fair and balanced, you can kindly take it elsewhere. Here are seven mixes that somehow relate to issues today. We want you to take along some sweet ass tunes. 2, we want you to take something more with you than a cheat sheet of ballot propositions and the pride in participating in democracy. As we have done with our Album of the Week Mixes and Literary Mix Project, we’ve decided to come up with a series of mixes to go along with today’s political climate. It just so happens to be a music feature relating to the election. But the author only references songs from their first album.This week, Treble is taking a break from music features to focus on what may be the most important day of the year - Election Day. Here's a character who is supposed to a real admirer of the band, so much so that he's still desperate to see them in the early 90's. The scene where Henry's lecturing the teenagers can to some degree be excused for it's dumbness (he is talking to teenagers after all.) But the worst scene is the Femmes concert. It will change your life for the better." Especially one of the Trouser Press guides. She could have spared everyone a few pages by cutting out all those scenes and just had Henry say one line like "You kids truly need to track down a couple of good album guides. I don't understand why an obviously smart author would be dumb enough to shoehorn a number of scenes into their work just to showcase some truly superficial comments on music. No one can deny she must have read exactly one general-interest article on the history of punk. I highly recommend it.Īs for the author's knowledge of punk, well, it's obvious she did some research. I loved The Time Traveler's Wife as a piece of smart entertainment. (She also fell waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy too much in love with her own characters, especially the heroine, who as a fiber artist was a pretty thinly veiled stand-in for the author, Audrey Niffeneger, who is also a fiber artist.) Which she proceeded to completely undermine elsewhere in the book by having one of the characters dismiss Cheap Trick out of hand. And I always liked the music references on The Gilmore Girls, because the characters there felt quirky but real and not just contrivances for the writers to convey their own hipness, which is all the character of Juno McGuff ever felt like to me.Īnd the two page discussion of punk in The Time Traveler's Wife was just so gratuitously out of place and immaterial to anything else around it that it was obviously just the writer showing off her indie cred. But I actually don't mind such references in works where they seem to make sense for the characters and don't just come across as the author/director/whoever just showing off their hipness.įor example - I was fine with High Fidelity, the book and the movie. It's a perfect recording.Īs for being the equivalent of an old jazz hipster, I do kind of worry about that. I agree with Nosepail - the original version still gives me chills every time I hear it. Honeyroot - Love Will Tear Us Apart (m4a)įall Out Boy - Love Will Tear Us Apart (m4a) Invisible Limits - Love Will Tear Us ApartĬarnival Of Fools - Love Will Tear Us Apart Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart (red version, Jarboe vocals) ![]() The Tea Party - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live)ġ0,000 Maniacs - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live) Stanton-Miranda - Love Will Tear Us Apart Kaycee - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Märtini Bros. Prozak For Lovers - Love Will Tear Us ApartĪlbert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha - Love Will Tear Us Apart Hawksley Workman - Love Will Tear Us Apart U2 & The Arcade Fire - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live) New Order - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live at Tower Ballroom in Birmingham, May 9th, 1983) Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart (different than version below) The String Quartet Tribute - Love Will Tear Us Apart It screams "poseur." (courtesy of MyOldKentuckyBlog): It's just that "LWTUA" is such a cliche now.
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