Not to be outdone by Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 2 released their set list.  Checkmate. 1960s Norman Greenbaum – “Spirit in the Sky” The Who – “Pinball Wizard”  1970s AC/DC Let – “There Be Rock” Allman Brothers – “Ramblin’ Man” Bad Company – “Shooting Star” Blondie – “One Way or Another” Bob […]
So Guitar Hero: World Tour released a list of their official set list for the game and it looks like Rock Band II is in for some strong competition.  Check it out: Guitar Hero World Tour setlist, alphabetically: 311: “Beautiful Disaster” 30 Seconds To Mars: “The Kill” Airbourne: “Too Much Too Young” The Allman Brothers […]
Look at us, we formed a comic book columnist. Â Pretentious Record Store Guy is pretty excited at the addition of Art Brut’s Eddie Argos taking on a biweekly Comics column at Playback:STL. Â As St. Louis’ own son Nelly would say, Fo’ schizzle. Â Apparently this annoucement has set the blogosphere on fire with no less […]
1) A Tribe Called Quest –Low End Theory 2) Black Star –Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star 3) Hieroglyphics –Third Eye Vision 3a) Souls of Mischief –93 ‘Til Infinity 4) Common Sense –Resurrection 5) Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die
I have a confession to make. I fucking love Tom Petty. I know I shouldn’t say that because I’m a Pretentious Record Store Guy and Tom Petty should be enjoyed only in an ironic way that trivializes the mainstream and uses the false facade of irony as a substitute for nostalgic appreciation for the things […]
If youre like me then youre 510, rail thin, ridiculously good looking and your hair is the elixir from which dreams are made. Youre also a pretentious music fan, an aficionado of the underground, the litmus test by which any band who is anyone will be judged and blogged by before their fist single even […]
So the other day I finally got a chance to see one of my all time favorite bands, Radiohead, live and in concert. I was a little hesitant because they were playing at the crappy Verizon Amphitheater which has the lovely benefit of making all bands sound like crap, and as a bonus you get […]
Rhino just keeps doing it. A few weeks ago they re-released all The Replacements Twin Tone albums as remastered editions with b-sides, outtakes, and in depth liner notes. What else could any hipster alt rock fan dream of? So, on order of release there was Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Stink, Hootenanny […]
Trent Reznor is a really nice guy. He just made a new Nine Inch Nails album called The Slip and he likes his fans so much that he decided to give it to them for free! That’s right, Trent Reznor is giving away the new album digitally, 100% free, with physical copies coming out in […]
From the very moment it starts, It’s a Shame About Ray transfixes and mesmerizes me like maybe no other record before or since. Beautiful and serene while at the same time completely lonely and bittersweet, Evan Dando’s melancholy voice shines through pitch perfectly in his magnum opus. Luckily for all of us mere mortals, Rhino […]
Happy 4-20! To celebrate you should go to a record store. And you shouldn’t go to any old record store, but an independent record store filled with Pretentious Record Store Guys like me. 🙂 Seriously, why go to a mall and pay $20 to buy from a pimple faced high schooler with a smock when […]
You have to love Adam Duritz and the Counting Crows. Listening to August and Everything After as well as Recovering the Satellites and you can’t help but feel their pain. A lot of people can sing, but very few people can make you feel when the do it. Duritz and the Crows do both with […]
Looking back on all the great music of the 1990s, I’m stunned at how much truly great stuff was put out and also at the amount of crap that was allowed to be produced as well. This isn’t a Best of the 90s list, only my favorite records of the 90s; albums that I keep […]
1) The Beatles –Revolver 2) The Beatles –Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 3) The Beatles –The Beatles (White Album) 4) The Beatles –Abbey Road 5) The Beatles –Rubber Soul
Vinyl is way better than CD. When you listen to a record it’s warmer and has much more body than a CD, causing it to sound much fuller. It’s like a nice, fine wine as opposed to a boxed pink wine. Whether or not you spin the black circle you can at least admit it […]
