Forced down our throats 06
Published January 25, 2006
Your listening is requested required
Here, for my enjoyment if no one else’s, is a list of the top 3 artists that will be forced down your throat in 2006. There will be nothing you can do about this. They will be everywhere. And long after you’ve stopped caring they will be all over commercials for the things that your demographic buys. Here we go.
3) Cat Power - Ok hipsters, here’s how this one works. You talk shit about Fiona Apple for years and then Chan Marshall makes a record where she spends 13 tracks trying to sound just like her. You will buy the record in droves. I will hang onto my bootleg of the version of “Extraordinary Machine” that Fiona didn’t let that hiphop asshat ruin.
2) Jenny Lewis - Not content to cure insomnia with Rilo Kiley only, Lewis has a solo record out. Expect to see her in an article in Time or Architecture Digest now that she has “broken”.
1) Belle & Sebastian - Someday we’ll collectively realize that Belle & Sebastian only had one Boy With The Arab Strap in them. Until then, there’s always Nissan commercials.
January 26th, 2006 at 1:01 am
Ooh, no! You know that “Moon Pix” doesn’t sound remotely like Fiona Apple (even though I really liked “Tidal”); and the B&S was a low blow. To each his own (and “Stars of Track and Field”, which still amazes me to this day, totally blew away the entire Arab Strap phenomenon, not to mention the awesomeness of “Your cover’s blown”). You sassy!
January 26th, 2006 at 9:59 am
i could never get into any of the three you just listed… yech.
January 26th, 2006 at 10:04 am
I guess I was a little extra snarky about B&S; I truly love them and ths new record just worries me a bit.
The Feist record is eclipsing all others at the moment though! It’s fantastic!
January 26th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Maybe you should be clearer about your intended audience…there are the enlightened and then there’s me.
These cater to a more sophomoric, non-snarky set of ears?